Home / Topics / Army Quotes

Army Quotes

Browse 2644 quotes about Army.

Army Quotes

“Let's presume that a country or army has this weapon ; this kind of armaments cannot be used by infantry for example or by anyone. This kind of armament should be used by specialized units, so it cannot be in the hand of anyone.”

Should Kind Country Hands Used Example Weapons Army Units Armament Infantry

Author:Bashar al-Assad

“From the first day I took the decision as President to defend my country. So, who killed ? That's another question. Actually, the terrorists have been killing our people since the beginning of this crisis two years and a half ago, and the Syrian people wanted the government and the state institutions and the army and the police to defend them, and that's what happened.”

People Years Firsts Has Beens Two Country States Government Wanted President Decision Half Happened Army Police Crisis Institutions Killing Terrorist Two Years

Author:Bashar al-Assad

“What the army is doing is cleaning those areas, and the indication that the army is strong is that it's making advancement in that area. It never went to one area and couldn't enter to it - that's an indication. How could that army do that if it's a family army or a sect army ? What about the rest of the country who support the government ? It's not realistic, it doesn't happen. Otherwise, the whole country will collapse.”

Ifs Country Whole Government Happens Strong Support Areas Army Realistic Collapse Cleaning Advancement Indication Sects

Author:Bashar al-Assad

“In the Islamic world, the U.S. is seen in two quite different ways. One view recognizes what an extraordinary country the U.S. is.The other view is of the official United States, the United States of armies and interventions. The United States that in 1953 overthrew the nationalist government of Mossadegh in Iran and brought back the shah. The United States that has been involved first in the Gulf War and then in the tremendously damaging sanctions against Iraqi civilians. The United States that is the supporter of Israel against the Palestinians.”

“The army is making good advancement on daily basis against the terrorists. Of course, they still have the support of Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and some Western countries including the United States, but the only option that we have in that regard is to win.”

Stills Country States Courses Winning United United States Support Bases Army Regard Western Including Terrorist Turkeys Advancement Arabia Saudi Arabia Saudis Qatar

Author:Bashar al-Assad

“A lot of my family is in army and it has always been inspirational for me to see them wearing the prestigious uniforms and their disciplined lifestyle. If I wasn't so passionate about cricket, I would have definitely been a soldier for my country.”

Ifs Country My Family Army Soldier Passionate Lifestyle Uniforms Cricket Prestigious

Author:Shahid Afridi

“Lincoln has accepted America as a biracial society. He's talking about giving at least some black men the right to vote. In the Emancipation Proclamation he advises some blacks to labor faithfully for reasonable wages, here in the United States. He doesn't say anything about them leaving the country. He puts black men in the army. That is a whole different vision than simply saying "let's have them go out of the country." I think what's interesting is the change in Lincoln's view, but one must realize that he did adhere to this idea of colonization for many years.”

“While certain coastal cities have become very prosperous, the rest of China has a per capita income of $200 a year. The coast wants to have nothing to do with the interior; it wants to work with Tokyo and New York. This is an old story in China. It is why Mao succeeded in 1927. He wanted [coastal] Shanghai to throw the foreigners out, but Shanghai was doing too well financially [to expel foreigners]. So Mao went to the interior and raised a peasant army. He came back to Shanghai and sealed off the country.”

Want Years Wells Country Stories Wanted Certain Cities New York Army Raised China Income Coast Interiors Prosperous Peasants Foreigners Tokyo Mao Coastal Shanghai

Author:George Friedman

“I love our country. My dad served in the army. I always grew up with a song sense of belonging as an American. But I was also in the counterculture and I was coming from a place of fearing the police. So I was anti-establishment, but also loving your country. It's kind of an ironic sort of upbringing.”

Kind Country Song Grew Dad Grew Up Army Police My Dad Our Country Belonging Ironic Establishment Upbringing Loving You Counterculture

Author:Mike Dirnt

“Me and apparently a lot of other people felt that the people who should benefit most from the country are the people who contribute the most, which is the middle class, who are drafted into the army, spend three years there and 25 years in the reserves. That is why I had enough votes to create out of nowhere the second-largest party in the country.”

People Country Enough Party Vote Army Middle Class

Author:Yair Lapid

“Victor Hugo said you can stop an invasion of armies, but you can never stop an invasion of ideas. There's nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come. It wasn't until 1920, four years after my mother was born - and she's still alive and healthy - that women were given the right to vote. Now it's hard even to imagine that for the greater part of the history of our country fifty percent of the population was not allowed to vote.”

Country Mother Powerful Imagine Healthy Vote Army Imagine That Right To Vote

Author:Wayne Dyer

“No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.”

“The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.”

“You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders, armies don't.”

Country Crosses Army Trade Borders Goods

Author:John Stossel

“The army is the true nobility of our country.”

Country Army Our Country Navy Nobility

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors.”

Men Country Action Powerful Hero Scene Army Warrior Defence Zeal

Book:Daniel Boone: His Own Story

Source: Daniel Boone: His Own Story

“People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it's more like entertaining the troops in a neutral zone, during peacetime in a country without an army.”

People Country Courses Term Military Painting Army Zone Entertaining Troops Bombing

Author:Banksy

“The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one’s country”

Country Facts Military Arms Citizens Highest Army Soldier Privilege Obligation Citizenship Bearing Arms Inspirational Military Military Soldier

Author:George S. Patton

“The standard of truth has been erected: no unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing, persecutions may rage, mobs may combine, armies may assemble, calumny may defame, but the truth of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent till it has penetrated every continent, visited every clime, swept every country, and sounded in every ear, till the purposes of God shall be accomplished and the great Jehovah shall say the work is done.”

“Salvador [Dali] was brought up in Spain, a country colored by the legends of Hannibal, El Greco, and Cervantes. I was brought up in Ohio, a region steeped in the tradition of Coxey's Army, the Anti-Saloon League, and William Howard Taft.”

Country Tradition Army League Regions Legends Spain Ohio Saloons Taft

Book:THE THURBER CARNIVAL

Source: THE THURBER CARNIVAL

“Yet each country had items that the other needed. The Arridi had reserves of red gold and iron in their deserts that the Toscans required to finance and equip their large armies. Even more important, Toscans had become inordinately fond of kafay, the rich coffee grown by the Arridi.”

Important Country Rich Needed Red Gold Army Coffee Finance Desert Iron Reserves Items

Author:John Flanagan

“Some wars are about bombing. For the people of the Baltics, this war was about believing. In 1991, after 50 years of brutal occupation, the three Baltic countries regained their independence, peacefully and with dignity. They chose hope over hate and showed the world that even through the darkest night, there is light. Please research it. Tell someone. These three tiny nations have taught us that love is the most powerful army. Whether love of friend, love of country, love of God, or even love of enemy - love reveals to us the truly miraculous nature of the human spirit.”

“He loves his country best who strives to make it best.”

Source: Life and letters

“My country is a country of teachers. It is therefore a country of peace. We discuss our successes and failures in complete freedom. Because our country is a country of teachers, we closed the army camps, and our children go about with books under their arms, not with rifles on their shoulders. We believe in dialogue, in agreement, in reaching a consensus.”

Believe Children Book Country Teacher Arms Army Our Children Shoulders Dialogue Our Country Torture Reaching Agreement Camps Consensus Success And Failure Rifles Complete Freedom

Author:Oscar Arias

“"Don't you want to abolish state power?" Yes, we do, but not right now. We cannot do it yet. Why? Because imperialism still exists, because domestic reaction still exists, because classes still exist in our country. Our present task is to strengthen the people's state apparatus - mainly the people's army, the people's police and the people's courts - in order to consolidate national defense and protect the people's interests.”

Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works

“The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.”

War Country Military Fame Protect Army Kingdoms Sovereign Retreat Jewels Art Of War Disgrace War Strategy Good Service Coveting

Book:The Art of War

Source: The Art of War

“We cannot enter into alliance with neighbouring princes until we are acquainted with their designs. We are not fit to lead an army on the march unless we are familiar with the face of the country - its mountains and forests, its pitfalls and precipices, its marshes and swamps. We shall be unable to turn natural advantages to account unless we make use of local guides.”

Art War Country Use Faces Turns Natural Design Fit Mountain Advantage Accounts Army Guides Locals Forests Familiar March Art Of War Alliances Swamps Precipice Pitfalls Marshes

Book:The Complete Art of War

Source: The Complete Art of War

“We cannot enter into alliances until we are acquainted with the designs of our neighbors. We are not fit to lead an army on the march unless we are familiar with the face of the country.”

Art War Country Faces Design Fit Army Neighbor Familiar March Art Of War Alliances

Book:The Art of War

Source: The Art of War

“I wonder whether those of our political masters who have been put in charge of the defence of the country can distinguish a mortar from a motor; a gun from a howitzer; a guerrilla from a gorilla, although a great many resemble the latter.”

Has Beens Country Political Wonder Masters Gun Army Soldier Great Men Latter Badass Motor Defence Gorillas Mortar Guerrillas Brave Soldiers Great Army

Author:Sam Manekshaw

“No profession or occupation is more pleasing than the military; a profession or exercise both noble in execution (for the strongest, most generous and proudest of all virtues is true valor) and noble in its cause. No utility either more just or universal than the protection of the repose or defense of the greatness of one's country. The company and daily conversation of so many noble, young and active men cannot but be well-pleasing to you.”

Source: Selected essays of Montaigne: in the translation of John Florio

“Where are they now that we, the men whom they sent off to war, have returned? These are commanders who have deserted their troops, and there is no more serious crime in the law of war. The Army says they never leave their wounded. The Marines say they never leave even their dead. These men have left all the casualties and retreated behind a pious shield of public rectitude. They have left the real stuff of their reputation bleaching behind them in the sun in this country.”

Men War Real Country Law Left Stuff Behinds Sun Crime He Man Serious Army Reputation Troops Wounded Marine Shields Commanders Pious Casualties Deserted Rectitude Real Stuff Bleaching

Author:John F. Kerry

“For me personally, as I said, I want to serve my country. I've done it once, and I'm still in the army, I feel as though I should get the opportunity to do it again.”

Want Feels Should Said Stills Country Done Opportunity Army

Author:Prince Harry

“The People's Liberation Army is always a fighting force. Even after countrywide victory, our army will remain a fighting force during the historical period in which classes have not been abolished in our country and the imperialist system still exists in the world. On this point, there should be no misunderstanding or wavering.”

People World Should Stills Country Fighting Force Class Victory Periods Army Historical Our Country Liberation Misunderstanding Wavering

Book:Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works

Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works

“Many changes have taken place but one change remains the same that is your Task & Duty . You are required to ensure the security of this country against all the odds .What does that means to you ? It means you should have to fight & fight to win , there is no roof for the losers . If you lose don't come back , you will have disgraced the country & the country won't accept you”

Ifs Should Mean Doe Country Fighting Winning Loses Accepting Taken Security Duty Tasks Should Have Army Remains Loser Odds Roof

Author:Sam Manekshaw

“A study of Disease-of Pestilences methodically prepared and deliberately launched upon man and beast-is certainly being pursue in the laboratories of more than one great country. Blight to destroy crops, Anthrax to slay horses and cattle, Plague to poison not armies but whole districts - such are the lines along which military science is remorselessly advancing.”

Men Country Whole Lines Study Military Disease Horse Army Prepared Pursue Beast Poison Plague Laboratory Crops Advancing Cattle Great Country Pestilence Blight Anthrax

Book:Churchill: The Power of Words

Source: Churchill: The Power of Words

“When I competed, it was for honor and country. It was a privilege to be a part of the U.S. team.”

Country Team Honor Army Privilege

Author:Bill Toomey

“Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe.”

Book:An Examination Into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution Proposed by the Late Convention Held at Philadelphia: With Answers to the Principal Objections that Have Been Raised Against the System

Source: An Examination Into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution Proposed by the Late Convention Held at Philadelphia: With Answers to the Principal Objections that Have Been Raised Against the System

“Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. [Thus,] there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people.”

People Ends Country States Differences Masters Revolution Arms Please Gun Standing Army Court Command Observation Ministers Gun Control Pursued Second Amendment

Author:Aristotle

“The militia is the natural defense of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpations of power by rulers. It is against sound policy for a free people to keep up large military establishments and standing armies in time of peace, both from the enormous expenses, with which they are attended, and the facile means, which they afford to ambitious and unprincipled rulers, to subvert the government, or trample upon the rights of the people.”

Source: A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States: Containing a Brief Commentary on Every Clause, Explaining the True Nature, Reasons, and Objects Thereof : Designed for the Use of School Libraries and General Readers : with an Appendix, Containing Important Public Documents, Illustrative of the Constitution

“I'd like to have two armies: one for display with lovely guns, tanks, little soldiers, staffs, distinguished and doddering generals, and dear little regimental officers who would be deeply concerned over their general's bowel movements or their colonel's piles, an army that would be shown for a modest fee on every fairground in the country.”

Littles Two Country Would Be Military Movement Gun Concerned Army Soldier Dear Lovely Officers Display Modest Distinguished Tanks Fees Colonels Bowel Movements

Author:Jean Larteguy

“I had the evidence that a crash did happen here....Give this information to the young people of the world and this country....They want it. Give it to them. Don't hide it and tell lies and make stories. They're not stupid....It's their information. It doesn't belong to the Army or the Department of Defence. If it's classified, take the classification off and give it to them!”

People Ifs World Want Giving Country Stories Happens Young Lying Military Stupid Information Evidence Army Department Crash Defence Ufo Classification Not Stupid

Author:Philip J. Corso

“When the child has reached manhood he is thoroughly saturated with the belief that he is chosen by the Lord himself to defend his country against the attack or invasion of any foreigner. It is for that purpose that we are clamoring for a greater army and navy, more battleships and ammunition.”

Children Country Purpose Belief Lord Greater Army Chosen Manhood Navy Invasion Foreigners Saturated Ammunition

Book:Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

Source: Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

“[T]he hour is fast approaching, on which the Honor and Success of this army, and the safety of our bleeding Country depend. Remember officers and Soldiers, that you are Freemen, fighting for the blessings of Liberty - that slavery will be your portion, and that of your posterity, if you do not acquit yourselves like men.”

Source: Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious

“This means more to me than any Grammy I could ever win ... It will take a village and an army, [some] countries and continents to make bullying a hate crime.”

Mean Country Hate Winning Crime Army Lgbt Village Bullying Continents Hate Crime Grammy

Author:Lady Gaga

“But I think what we're coming to grips with is the fact that we actually have a mercenary Army, and it doesn't have a nice ring to it. We call it 'volunteers', but we're basically paying people to serve their country. And if you're going to pay people and have a mercenary Army, you're going to have to pay the market rate. And so the bounties are going up—more money for tuition, higher enlistment bonuses—and I think it's appropriate.”

People Ifs Thinking Country Facts Pay Nice Higher Army Rate Rings Appropriate More Money Volunteer Bonus Bounty Tuition Mercenary

Author:Eleanor Clift

“The soldiers feel that the Police are not serious with the criminal elements and that they are corrupt. The army had to come in and insist that criminals must be punished. It happens in all countries, there is a time when the army assumes the duty of internal security.”

Feels Country Happens Security Serious Duty Elements Army Police Assuming Soldier Criminals Internals

Author:Yoweri Museveni

“I was born in Munich, and my father was stationed in Salzburg. For the first three years of my life, I lived in Austria back when the American Army was still in Austria. I grew up subsequently in posts around the country around veterans.”

Years Firsts Stills Country Three Father Born Grew Grew Up Army Posts Three Years Thank You Veteran Memorial Memorial Day Back When Austria Munich American Army Salzburg

Author:Rick Atkinson

“Nobody respects a country with a poor army, but everybody respects a country with a good army. I raise my toast to the Finnish army”

Country Poor Army Raises Historical Toasts Finnish

Author:Joseph Stalin

“My point is that it's incorrect to say that the Iraq policy isn't working. It is working. It is doing what they want. They have got control of the oil and they are exporting it, and they have stripped a government that was 90% state owned and they are privatizing it. ... They have taken a country that was self defining and self developing and is now an impoverished prostrate devastated country where people will line up to work for slave wages or become members of the police or army because it's the only job they can get and serve as adjuncts to U.S. imperialism.”

People Want Self Country States Government Jobs Political Lines Taken Policy Members Army Police Slave Iraq Oil Developing Working It Wages Imperialism Defining Devastated Exporting

Author:Michael Parenti

“Rule 1, on page I of the book of war, is: "Do not march on Moscow". Various people have tried it, Napoleon and Hitler, and it is no good. That is the first rule. I do not know whether your Lordships will know Rule 2 of war. It is: "Do not go fighting with your land armies in China". It is a vast country, with no clearly defined objectives...”

People Knows Firsts Book War Country Fighting Land Pages Army Various China Objectives Defined March Moscow Lordship

Author:Bernard Law Montgomery