Best army & two Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“We have two companies of Marines running rampant all over the northern half of this island, and three Army regiments pinned down in the southwestern corner, doing nothing. What the hell is going on?”

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Author:John W. Vessey, Jr.

“In battles two things are usually required of the Commander-in-Chief: to make a good plan for his army and, secondly, to keep a strong reserve.”

Two Strong Plans Battle Army Planning Chiefs Two Things Reserves Commanders Commander In Chief

Book:Churchill on men and events: a selection from

Source: Churchill on men and events: a selection from

“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.”

“Deep in the winter plain, two armies Dig their machinery, to destroy each other. Men freeze and hunger. No one is given leave On either side, except the dead, and wounded.”

Men Two Given Sides Army Winter Hunger Wounded Machinery Freeze

Book:Selected Poems of Stephen Spender

Source: Selected Poems of Stephen Spender

“If Paulus's army had capitulated before the end, the Russians would have had the advantage of withdrawing forces against Paulus and against the southern front, where I had only two Romanian armies. Therefore, the resistance of the Sixth German Army, even to the death of the last man, was necessary.”

Ifs Men Two Ends Lasts Force Fronts Advantage Army Resistance Southern Withdrawing

Author:Erich von Manstein

“What have the masses been clamoring for? Jobs and welfare, and they got 'em. They've also got unions and managements like two armies converting the whole economy into a battleground with the customers as victims, except that the victims are also in the army. They think in battle terms by day and like customers at night.”

Thinking Two Whole Wisdom Jobs Night Politics Term Economy Battle Mass Army Management Victim Unions Customers Welfare Liberalism Ems Converting Battleground

Author:Louis O. Kelso

“Words can do wonderful things. They pound, purr. They can urge, they can wheedle, whip, whine. They can sing, sass, singe. They can churn, check, channelize. They can be a "Hup two three four." They can forge a fiery army of a hundred languid men.”

Men Two Three Can Do Four Wonderful Hundred Army Checks Urges Pounds Wonderful Things Whips Fiery Sass

Author:Gwendolyn Brooks

“Sixty thousand blacks are annually embarked from the coast of Guinea, never to return to their native country; but they are embarked in chains: and this constant emigration, which, in the space of two centuries, might have furnished armies to overrun the globe, accuses the guilt of Europe and the weakness of Africa.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“Some people reckoned up all King Harald's (King of Norway) great achievements, and said that nothing would be too difficult for him. But there were others who said that England would be very hard to conquer. It was very populous and the warriors who were known as the king's Housecarls were so valiant, that any one of them was worth two of the best in King Harald's army”

People Said Two Hard Would Be Difficult Known Kings Achievement Army England Warrior Conquer Great Achievement Valiant Norway

Author:Snorri Sturluson

“I'll never make another Hardy picture . . . I'm fed up with these dopey, insipid parts. How long can a guy play a jerk kid? I'm 27 years old. I've been divorced once and separated from my second wife. I have two boys of my own. I spent almost two years in the army. It's time Judge Hardy went out and bought me a double-breasted suit.”

Years Long Two Play Kids Guy My Own Boys Wife Judging Army Suits Two Years Feds Divorced Jerk Fed Up Hardy Insipid

Author:Mickey Rooney

“It's like guerrilla warfare. If you reveal your location, all it does is allow your opponent to improve his artillery bearings. It's better to move quietly, with stealth, under cover of night. You've got two choices: You can wear cammies and shimmy along on your belly, or you can put on a red coat and stand up for everyone to see. It comes down to whether you want to be the British army in the Revolutionary War or the Viet Cong. History tells us which tactic was more effective.”

“After a short period spent in Brussels as a guest of a neurological institute, I returned to Turin on the verge of the invasion of Belgium by the German army, Spring 1940, to join my family. The two alternatives left then to us were either to emigrate to the United States, or to pursue some activity that needed neither support nor connection with the outside Aryan world where we lived. My family chose this second alternative. I then decided to build a small research unit at home and installed it in my bedroom.”

“There are two tendencies in all our war talk.... The first is to boast, if not of ourselves and our deeds, at least of our army, our corps, our regiments. The other is to find fault with, to criticize, to censure, to condemn others. If there is a victory, we gained it and must have the credit of it. If there is a failure, it was the fault of the other fellow,--he must be blamed for it.”

Ifs Firsts Two War Victory Army Fellows Faults Deeds Credit Tendencies Criticize Boast Censure

Author:Rutherford B. Hayes

“Putin likes to quote a sentence from Czar Alexander III, who said that Russian has only two allies - the army and the navy. As a citizen, this makes me sit up and take notice. This is a concept of self-imposed isolation, a defense strategy that sees Russia surrounded by enemies.”

Said Two Self Enemy Citizens Concepts Army Strategy Sentences Defense Russia Likes Isolation Allies Navy Putin Czars

Author:Vladimir Sorokin

“Nothing could be smarter, more splendid, more brilliant, better drawn up than two armies. Trumpets, fifes, hautboys, drums, cannons, formed a harmony such as never been heard in hell.”

Two Hell Heard Army Harmony Brilliant Smarter Splendid Trumpets Cannons

Author:Voltaire

“The first song is called 'London.' It's about two Russian soldiers who desert the Russian army and escape to London, where they indulge in a life of crime.”

Firsts Two Song Crime Army Soldier London Desert Indulge Indulge In

Author:Neil Tennant

“It has been said that one bad general is better than two good ones, and the saying is true if taken to mean no more than that an army is better directed by a single mind, though inferior, than by two superior ones at variance and cross-purposes with each other.”

Ifs Mind Mean Has Beens Said Two Purpose Taken Crosses Army Superiors Inferiors Variance

Book:The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)

Source: The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)

“Most people don't realize that two-thirds of the federal budget is Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Pentagon. The U.S. government is an insurance company with an Army.”

People Two Government Social Realizing Company Security Thirds Army Budgets Social Security Medicare Pentagon Insurance Companies Medicaid

Author:Scott Pelley

“If army ants are wandering around and they get lost, they start to follow a simple rule:Just do what the ant in front of you does. The ants eventually end up in a circle. There's this famous example of one that was 1,200 feet long and lasted for two days; the ants just kept marching around and around in a circle until they died.”

Ifs Long Doe Two Ends Lost Simple Feet Fronts Example Army Died Circles Wander Ants Two Days Wandering Around

Author:James Surowiecki

“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. Every Arab or Muslim that I know is tremendously interested in the United States. Many of them send their children here for education. Many of them come here for vacations. They do business here or get their training here. The other view is of the official United States, the United States of armies and interventions.”

Knows World Way Children Two Different Country States United Views United States Training Army Extraordinary Different Ways Officials Islamic Vacation Intervention

Author:Edward Said

“We have great information. They're going to welcome us. It'll be like the American Army going through the streets of Paris. They're sitting there ready to form a new government. The people will be so happy with their freedoms that we'll probably back ourselves out of there within a month or two.”

People Two Government Form Streets Information Ready Months Sitting Army Welcome Paris New Government American Army Streets Of Paris

Author:Dick Cheney

“['Dad's Army' show]was a military thing but also very funny, so it's kind of the two things that I experienced by being a soldier, and I found it very humorous then and there, because of the juxtapositions [and] me and my emotional state.”

Kind Two States Shows Found Military Emotional Dad Humorous Army Soldier Two Things Juxtaposition

Author:Rhys Darby

“Germany's potential makes up about 20% of the EU's overall economic power, including Great Britain. The German army is by no means strong enough to guarantee the security of the EU's two endangered flanks - in the east and in the south. So all that remains for Germany is partnerships with its neighbours and other EU member states. Germany should stick to that role.”

“Mao lived very much like the rank and file of the Red Army. After ten years of leadership of the Reds, after hundreds of confiscations of property of landlords, officials and tax collectors, he owned only his blankets, and a few personal belongings, including two cotton uniforms. Although he is a Red Army commander as well as chairman, he wore on his coat collar only two Red bars that are the insignia of the ordinary Red soldier.”

Years Wells Two Ten Taxes Ordinary Red Army Property Including Soldier Bars Officials Belonging Uniforms Coats Files Commanders Blanket Chairman Collectors Cotton Collars Mao Landlord Red Army

Author:Edgar Snow

“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

“We wouldn't have withstood for two years and a half. We would have disintegration of the army, disintegration of the whole institution in the state ; we would have disintegration of Syria if that was the case. It can't be tolerated in Syria. I'm talking about the normal reaction of the people. If it's not a national army, it cannot have the support, and if it doesn't have the public support of every sect, it cannot do its job and advance recently. It cannot. The army of the family doesn't make national war.”

People Ifs Years Two War States Whole Jobs Half Talking Cases Support Normal Army Institutions Reactions Two Years Syria Sects Disintegration

Author:Bashar al-Assad

“Talking about winning and losing is like if you're talking about two armies fighting on two territories, which is not the case. Those [terrorists] are gangs, coming from abroad, infiltrate inhabited areas, kill the people, take their houses, and shoot at the army. The army cannot do the same, and the army doesn't exist everywhere.”

People Ifs Two Fighting House Winning Talking Cases Losing Areas Army Terrorist Territory Gang Winning And Losing Fighting On

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.”

“Pashtun nationalism is reasserting itself. Its political history spans several hundred years. The Pashtuns are angry at the Americans because, one, they're still being bombed, and two, they perceive that the Americans are backing the Tajik faction, which controls the army and security forces in Kabul.”

Years Stills Two Political Force Security Hundred Army Angry Perceive Nationalism Factions Kabul Political History Security Forces Pashtuns

Author:Ahmed Rashid

“Sharon's so-called two-state solution will be, let's say, twelve Palestinian enclaves, which will be called a Palestinian state. It will be connected by, perhaps, a series of bridges, tunnels, and highways, which can be cut off at any moment at the whim of the Israeli government or Israeli army.”

Two States Moments Government Cutting Solutions Army Series Connected Bridges Twelve Palestinian Highways Israeli Tunnels Whim Sharon Israeli Army

Author:Uri Avnery

“By the 20th century, war ceased to be an encounter between two armies. It became an encounter between two societies, because a factory worker producing a gun or a bomb is as deadly as a pilot.”

Two War Century Gun Army Workers Encounters Bombs Pilots Factories 20th Century Factory Workers

Author:George Friedman

“I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them.”

Two Book Together Virtue Pages Crosses Army Sentences Drawn Together

Book:Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

“The conflicting missions of the two armies seemed to have no fog, no gray, only black-and-white clarity. I had lived my life in terms of compromise, rule-bending, trade-offs, concessions, bargaining, striking deals, finding middle ground. In these two great armies, there was no such thing. Good was good, and evil was evil, and they shared no common ground.”

“The obligation d'âme meant that his only allegiance was to Felix, making them a separate kingdom of two, with Felix as king and Mildmay as ministers, army, and populace all combined in one. A stormy little kingdom, I thought, with periodic flare-ups of civil war and a magnificently unstable government. And I was glad I wasn’t a citizen of it.”

Littles Two War Government Kings Citizens Army Glad Obligation Kingdoms Ministers Civil War Allegiance Unstable Stormy Flare

Book:The Mirador

Source: The Mirador

“After I got shot, you want to know the very first thing that entered my mind? The U.S. Mint. I am coin in the U.S. Army. Now, I have two small holes in me. I'm no longer perfectly culled. Do you want to know the very last thing that entered my mind, You.”

Knows Want Mind Firsts Two Lasts Shots Army Holes Coins Mint

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“Everything necessary to understand my grandfather lies between two stories: the story of the tiger’s wife, and the story of the deathless man. These stories run like secret rivers through all the other stories of his life – of my grandfather’s days in the army; his great love for my grandmother; the years he spent as a surgeon and a tyrant of the University. One, which I learned after his death, is the story of how my grandfather became a man; the other, which he told to me, is of how he became a child again.”

Men Years Children Two Stories Running Lying Secret Wife Rivers Army University Grandmother Tyrants Grandfather Tigers My Grandmother My Grandfather Great Love Surgeons Deathless

Book:The Tiger's Wife

Source: The Tiger's Wife

“The only use for military service is that it reveals the number of morons in the population," he would remark. "And that can be discovered in the first two weeks; there's no need for two years. Army, Marriage, the Church and Banking: the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Yes, go on, laugh.”

Source: The Shadow Of The Wind

“He was a commander in the Russian army at a time when the Russians were our enemies and still part of the Soviet Union . This wasn't very long ago, Alex.The collapse of communism. It was only in 1989 that the Berlin Wall came down." She stopped. "I suppose none of this means very much to you." "Well, it wouldn't," Alex said. "I was only two years old.”

Years Wells Mean Long Said Stills Two Enemy Wall Army Unions Communism Two Years Soviet Collapse Long Ago Soviet Union Commanders Alex Berlin Two Year Olds Berlin Wall

Author:Anthony Horowitz

“I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army.”

Two Wife Army My Wife Graves Two Things Seventies Fifth

Book:Old Man's War Boxed Set I

Source: Old Man's War Boxed Set I

“I have not time to say any more, but to beg you will give my duty to the Queen, and let her know her army has had a glorious victory. MonsieurTallard and two other generals are in my coach, and I am following the rest.”

Knows Giving Two Time Duty Victory Army Following Coaches Queens Glorious

Author:John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough

“In your deliberations, when seeking to determine the military conditions, let them be made the basis of a comparison, in this wise: which of the two generals has the most ability? on which side is Discipline most rigorously enforced? which army is stronger? on which side are the officers and men more highly trained? in which army is there the greater constancy both in reward and punishment?”

“If you are situated at a great distance from the enemy, and the strength of the two armies is equal, it is not easy to provoke a battle, and fighting will be to your disadvantage.”

Ifs Art Two War Fighting Easy Enemy Battle Equal Army Distance Provoking Art Of War Disadvantages

Book:Strategy Six Pack

Source: Strategy Six Pack

“Let me remind you that you have a two-fold task to perform. With the force of arms and at the cost of your blood you will have to win liberty. Then, when India is free, you will have to organize the permanent army of Free India, whose task it will be to preserve our liberty for all time. We must build up our national defense on such an unshakable foundation that never again in our history shall we lose our freedom.”

Source: Chalo Delhi: writings and speeches, 1943-1945

“Twenty or thirty years ago, in the army, we had a lot of obscure adventures, and years later we tell them at parties, and suddenly we realize that those two very difficult years of our lives have become lumped together into a few episodes that have lodged in our memory in a standardized form, and are always told in a standardized way, in the same words. But in fact that lump of memories has nothing whatsoever to do with our experience of those two years in the army and what it has made of us.”

Way Years Made Two Facts Together Form Difficult Realizing Memories Party Our Lives Adventure Years Ago Army Twenties Thirty Two Years Episodes Obscure Our Memories Thirty Years Lumps

Author:Vaclav Havel

“We have an army for fighting as well as an army for labour. For fighting, we have the Eighth Route and New Fourth Armies but even they do a dual job, warfare and production. With these two kinds of armies, and with a fighting army skilled in these two tasks and in mass work, we can overcome our difficulties and defeat Japanese imperialism.”

Wells Kind Two Jobs Fighting Mass Tasks Overcoming Difficulty Army Defeat Productions Labour Fourth Warfare Routes Imperialism

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

“We have two companies of MARINES running all over this island and thousands of ARMY troops doing nothing!”

Two Running Company Army Islands Troops Marine Doing Nothing Marine Corps Usmc My Marine

Author:John W. Vessey, Jr.

“Respect is intended to operate on a two-way street.”

Way Two Streets Army Two Ways Two Way Street

Author:James Dobson

“Perhaps my dynamite plants will put an end to war sooner than your [pacifist] congresses. On the day two army corps can annihilate each other in one second all civilized nations will recoil from war in horror.”

Two War Ends Nations Military Horror Army Plant Congress Civilized Pacifist Dynamite Recoil Civilized Nations

Author:Alfred Nobel

“Two armies are two bodies which meet and try to frighten each other.”

Trying Two War Body Military Army

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion - the technique of the army and of the modern totalitarian state. The other is voluntary cooperation of individuals - the technique of the marketplace.”

Source: Milton Friedman on Freedom: Selections from The Collected Works of Milton Friedman

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