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“For a country boy, poor as I was, whose constant worry was to be able to have enough to eat, the Army guaranteed one's survival.”

Country Enough Able Poor Boys Worry Survival Army Constant Country Boy

Author:Mo Yan

“We're not the public service of Canada, we're not just another department. We are the Canadian Forces, and our job is to be able to kill people.”

People Able Jobs Force Army Department Canada Public Service

Author:Rick Hillier

“I hope the time is not far off when I shall be able to unite all the wise and educated men of all the countries and establish a uniform regime based on the principles of the Quran which alone are true and which alone can lead men to happiness.”

Men Country Able Principles Wise Army Educated Regimes Uniforms Quran Educated Man

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Personally I have never been able to understand why the head of a big business, whether it be the Nation, the State or the Army, or Navy should not desire to have very strong and positive people under him.”

People Should States Bigs Able Desire Strong Nations Army Teamwork Very Strong Navy Big Business Positive People

Book:1898-1903

Source: 1898-1903

“I have left the obvious, essential fact to this point, namely, that it is the Russian Armies who have done the main work in tearing the guts out of the German army. In the air and on the oceans we could maintain our place, but there was no force in the world which could have been called into being, except after several more years, that would have been able to maul and break the German army unless it had been subjected to the terrible slaughter and manhandling that has fallen to it through the strength of the Russian Soviet Armies.”

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Author:Winston Churchill

“The Great War differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and from all modern wars in the utter ruthlessness with which it was fought... Europe and large parts of Asia and Africa became one vast battlefield on which after years of struggle not armies but nations broke and ran. When all was over, Torture and Cannibalism were the only two expedients that the civilized, scientific, Christian States had been able to deny themselves: and they were of doubtful utility.”

“Richard Nixon was a very intelligent and able man. And he had the right ideas. But he did not have the adherence to principles that [Ronald] Reagan had. He did some very good things. We owe to Richard Nixon the volunteer army - he got rid of the draft. And that was a major increase in freedom.”

Men Ideas Able Principles Majors Increase Army Intelligent Good Things Very Good Volunteer Adherence Right Ideas

Author:Milton Friedman

“Adolf Hitler may have been wrong all down the line, but one thing is beyond dispute: the man was able to work his way up from lance corporal in the German Army to Führer of a people of almost 80 million. His success alone proved that I should subordinate myself to this man.”

People Men Way Should May Has Beens Able Lines Millions One Thing He Man Army Disputes Subordinates

Author:Adolf Eichmann

“The history of warfare has not yet enabled any army, any civilized army, the army of a democracy like Israel, to be able to deal with a ruthless terrorist enemy that uses civilians as a human shield without having some incidental civilian casualties.”

Humans Use Able Deals Enemy Democracy Army Israel Terrorist Civilized Warfare Civilians Shields Ruthless Casualties Civilian Casualties

Author:Benjamin Netanyahu

“The reason why there is now no communist government in Paris is because in the circumstances of 1945 the Soviet army was not able to reach French soil.”

War Reason Government Able Cold Circumstances Army Reason Why Paris Soil Communist Soviet Cold War

Author:Joseph Stalin

“The Government is able to afford a suitable army and a suitable navy. It may maintain them without the slightest danger to the Republic or the cause of free institutions, and fear of additional taxation ought not to change a proper policy in this regard.”

May Government Able Causes Danger Policy Ought Army Regard Institutions Republic Taxation Navy Suitable

Book:The Collected Works of William Howard Taft: Presidential addresses and state papers

Source: The Collected Works of William Howard Taft: Presidential addresses and state papers

“Only a modern army will be able to fight a modern war.”

War Able Fighting Modern Army Arms Race Modern War

Author:Howard W. Koch

“As is well know, I, ah..regard myself as a religious man, yet I belong to no church. I'm an able soldier yet I abhor armies. I can even add that I've been introduced to hundreds of women but never married. in other words no one's ever talked me into anything.”

Knows Men Wells I Can Able Church Religious Married Army Regard Add Soldier

Author:Charlton Heston

“Do you know why I won the last elections? It was because the people liked me, yes, because I had worked, yes, but also because the opposition had behaved badly toward me. And do you know why I won this war? Because my army was able to do it, yes, but also because the Americans were on the side of Pakistan.”

People Knows War Able Lasts Sides Army Election Opposition Do You Know Pakistan

Author:Indira Gandhi

“Our concern is to help people counter the efforts of those who seek to "regiment the public mind every bit as much as an army regiments the bodies of its soldiers," so that the self-designated "responsible men" will be able to run the affairs of the world untroubled by the "bewildered herd" - the general public - who are to be marginalized and dispersed, directed to personal concerns, in a well-regulated "democracy."”

People Men World Mind Wells Self Helping Body Running Able Bits Effort Democracy Concern Army Responsible Affair Soldier Herds Bewildered Marginalized General Public

Author:Noam Chomsky

“When was the last time the United States won a war? You know, it lost in Vietnam. It's lost in Afghanistan. It's lost in Iraq. And it will not be able to contain the situation. It is hemorrhaging. It is now - you know, of course you can continue with drone attacks, and you can continue these targeted killings, but on the ground, a situation is being created which no army - not America, not anybody - can control. And it's just, you know, a combination of such foolishness, such a lack of understanding of culture in the world.”

“I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.”

Has Beens War Seems Able Army Congress Starving Tobacco Aggravation Peanuts

Author:Robert E. Lee

“Because I’ve lost my children, too, and I know the ache that lives inside the heart that no amount of solace or alcohol will squelch. I know what it’s like to have the powers of a god and to not be able to hold the one thing that means the most to me. And if you think for one minute that I would ever serve that to another being, even Artemis, who I’d like to torture for eternity, then go ahead and call down your army on me. I would deserve whatever death they give. (Sin)”

Ifs Thinking Knows Giving Heart Mean Children Able Lost Sin One Thing Minutes Amount Deserve Eternity Army Alcohol My Children Torture Ache Solace One Minute Artemis

Book:Devil May Cry: A Dark-Hunter Novel

Source: Devil May Cry: A Dark-Hunter Novel

“It is the rule in war, if ten times the enemy's strength, surround them; if five times, attack them; if double, be able to divide them; if equal, engage them; if fewer, defend against them; if weaker, be able to avoid them.”

Ifs Art War Able Enemy Five Ten Equal Army Surround Divides Fewer Art Of War

Author:Sun Tzu

“Without Spam, we wouldn't have been able to feed our army.”

Has Beens Able Army Spam

Book:Khrushchev Remembers

Source: Khrushchev Remembers

“It is our duty to pay for our liberty with our own blood. The freedom that we shall win through our sacrifice and exertions, we shall be able to preserve with our own strength.”

Able Winning Pay Liberty Sacrifice Blood Duty Army Preserves Exertion

Book:Life and Times of Subhas Chandra Bose, as Told in His Own Words

Source: Life and Times of Subhas Chandra Bose, as Told in His Own Words

“To have command of the air means to be able to cut an enemy's army and navy off from their bases of operation and nullify their chances of winning the war.”

Mean War Able Winning Chance Enemy Cutting Air Military Bases Army Command Operations Aviation Navy Air Power Airpower Military Aviation

Book:Command Of The Air

Source: Command Of The Air

“The publicity I have been getting, a good deal of which is untrue, and the rest of it ill considered, has done me more harm than good. The only way you get on in this profession is to have the reputation of doing what you are told as thoroughly as possible. So far I have been able to accomplish that, and I believe I have gotten quite a reputation from not kicking at peculiar assignments.”

Way Believe Has Beens Done Able I Believe Deals Army Ill Accomplish Harm Profession Reputation Peculiar Publicity Kicking Assignments Untrue

Author:George S. Patton

“Bestow rewards without regard to rule, issue orders without regard to previous arrangements; and you will be able to handle a whole army as though you had to do with but a single man.”

Men Art War Whole Able Order Issues Military Army Regard Rewards Handle Arrangements Art Of War Strategist Single Man War Strategy

Book:The Art of War (The Classic Lionel Giles Translation)

Source: The Art of War (The Classic Lionel Giles Translation)

“With all my devotion to the Union, and the feeling of loyalty and duty of an American citizen, I have not been able to make up my mind to raise my hand against my relative, my children, my home. I have, therefore, resigned my commission in the Army.”

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Book:Recollections and Letters

Source: Recollections and Letters

“Our way of getting an army able to fight the German army is to declare war on Germany just as if we had such an army, and then trust to the appalling resultant peril and disaster to drive us into wholesale enlistment.”

Ifs Way War Able Fighting Army Disaster Germany Peril Great War Wholesale

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“Begum Hazrat Mahal of Oudh was the last of the breed of able queens and generals. The queen led her kingdom's army into battle during the revolt of 1857. Even after she was defeated she defied Queen Victoria's famous Proclamation and issued a counter Proclamation.”

Able Lasts Battle Army Kingdoms Queens Defeated Revolt Victoria Proclamation Mahal

Author:Qurratulain Hyder

“The only hope you have is to accept the fact that you're already dead. The sooner you accept that, the sooner you'll be able to function as a soldier is supposed to function: without mercy, without compassion, without remorse. All war depends upon it.”

War Facts Able Hope Compassion Accepting Acceptance Depends Mercy Function Army Soldier Remorse World War 2 Supposing Remorseless

Author:Ronald Speirs

“An army to be useful must be a unit, and out of this has grown the saying, attributed to Napoleon, but doubtless spoken before the days of Alexander, that an army with an inefficient commander was better than one with two able heads.”

Two Able Army Units Commanders

Book:Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman

Source: Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman

“The social psychologist of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods of producing an unshakable conviction that snow is black. When the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in charge of education for more than one generation will be able to control its subjects securely without the need of armies or policemen.”

“I am going to give you such a weapon that the police and the army will not be able to stand against it. It is the weapon of the Prophet, but you are not aware of it. That weapon is patience and righteousness. No power on earth can stand against it.”

Giving Able Earth Weapons Army Police Prophet Righteousness

Author:Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan