Best Army Navy Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“In times of crisis our nation depends on the courage and determination of the Guard. You know the call of active duty can come at any time. You stand ready to put your lives on hold and answer that call, ... And you did so because you love your state and your country. America appreciates your courageous decision to serve. Together with your comrades in the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Reserves, you are showing that patriotism is alive and well in Idaho and throughout the United States.”

Source: Fear God and Take Your Own Part

“The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes.”

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Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Forts, arsenals, garrisons, armies, navies, are means of security and defence, which were invented in half-civilized times and in feudal or despotic countries; but schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications, and if they are dismantled and dilapidated, ignorance and vice will pour in their legions through every breach.”

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Book:Common School Journal

Source: Common School Journal

“When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship.”

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Author:Dick Gregory

“I did not have any money, so when I came to New York, I just dressed myself with whatever I could find and the Army-Navy store.”

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Author:Babette March

“Those who served, and those who continue to serve in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard took an oath to uphold and protect the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic, and we can never forget the importance of their commitment to our Nation.”

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Author:Robin Hayes

“I have just realized that it is due to you, and to Mr. James Thomas and his staff of the Army Navy Country Club that the putting green here on the White House lawn is already in such excellent condition. I assure you that I get a great deal of pleasure and relaxation out of using the green in an occasional late afternoon hour . . .”

“Making the world safe for hypocrisy.”

World Safe Army Hypocrisy Navy Army Navy

Author:Thomas Wolfe

“A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company”

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Author:Samuel Johnson

“I believe that when we overdo our military aggressiveness, what it does it actually weakens our national defense. I mean, we stood up to the Soviets. They had 40,000 nuclear weapons. Now we're fretting day in and day - night about third-world countries that have no army, navy or air force.”

“No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.”

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Author:Samuel Johnson

“Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.”

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Author:Samuel Johnson

“I can assure our countrymen that India is safe in the hands of the brave warriors of our Army, Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard.”

I Can Hands Force Air Safe India Army Brave Warrior Coast Navy Air Force Countrymen Army Navy Coast Guard

Author:Narendra Modi

“Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?”

Children Play Army Soldier Make Sense Navy Children Playing Army Navy

Book:Dicta and Contradicta

Source: Dicta and Contradicta

“There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen.”

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Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.”

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Author:Camille Paglia

“An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.”

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Book:Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung

Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung

“And gentlemen in England now-a-bed Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.”

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Author:William Shakespeare

“You know, I think the main purpose of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps is to get poor Americans into clean, pressed, unpatched clothes, so rich Americans can stand to look at them.”

Thinking Knows Looks Purpose Poor Rich Clothes Army Clean Navy Marine Marine Corps Army Navy

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.”

Funny Tradition Army Navy Talk To Me Lashes Naval Rum Maritime Army Navy Don't Talk To Me British Navy

Author:Winston Churchill

“Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.”

Thinking Men Sea Army Soldier Every Man Navy Military Man Military Soldier Army Navy Every Man For Himself

Author:Samuel Johnson

“We few. We happy few. We band of brothers, for he today That sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother.”

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Author:William Shakespeare

“I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but by God, they frighten me.”

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Author:Duke of Wellington

“If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.”

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Book:Sun Tzu: The Art of War (Illustrated)

Source: Sun Tzu: The Art of War (Illustrated)

“'Tis the soldier's life to have their balmy slumbers waked with strife.”

Army Soldier Strife Navy Slumber Army Navy

Book:Othello: Revised Edition

Source: Othello: Revised Edition

“Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.”

Thinking Doe War Talking Army Navy Admiral Army Navy Warships

Book:Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs

Source: Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs

“If I should die, think only this of me: that there's some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England.”

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Author:Rupert Brooke

“In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time mutinous and full of faction, until some popular general, who understands the art of conciliating the soldiery, and who possesses the true spirit of command, shall draw the eyes of all men upon himself. Armies will obey him on his personal account. There is no other way of securing military obedience in this state of things.”

Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event: 1790

“The deadliest weapon in the world is a MARINE and his rifle!”

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Author:John J. Pershing

“O the joy of the strong-brawn'd fighter, towering in the arena in perfect condition, conscious of power, thirsting to meet his opponent.”

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Book:Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867

Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867

“I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.”

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Author:Oliver Cromwell

“As long as there are prisons, police, armies, navies; we are not civilized. When the Earth joins together and uses the Earth intelligently, that will be the beginning of civilization.”

Long Use Earth Together Civilization Army Police Prison Civilized Navy Army Navy

Author:Jacque Fresco

“The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest defence and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength, - the floating bulwark of our island.”

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Author:William Blackstone

“The highly skilled workers at Lima have enabled the plant to grow far beyond its original mission, now providing a wide variety of cutting-edge military vehicles and equipment to the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps.”

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Author:Michael Oxley

“The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. The fighters are our salvation, but the bombers alone provide the means of victory.”

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Book:Their Finest Hour

Source: Their Finest Hour

“In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.”

Order Cities Army Misery Relax Navy Army Navy

Book:Billy Budd and Other Tales

Source: Billy Budd and Other Tales

“In time, the church will actually be organized more as a military force with an army, navy, air force, etc.”

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Author:Rick Joyner

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