Army Quotes

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions. (Daniel Defoe)
I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion. View quote
Alexander the Great
Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move. View quote
Sun Tzu
An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot. View quote
Thomas Paine
Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations. View quote
Sun Tzu
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable, procures success to the weak, and esteem to all. View quote
George Washington
If soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army. View quote
Frederick II of Prussia
One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas. View quote
Victor Hugo
There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army. View quote
John Ashbery
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army. (José Martí)
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. View quote
Robert E. Lee
The problem is essentially that of communications to an army in action. After a rapid advance communications become disorganized, and there is a temporary halting until they are again in working order. View quote
John Desmond Bernal
Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners. View quote
John Steinbeck
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. View quote
Edward Everett
Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence. View quote
Milton Friedman
It takes a brave man to be a coward in the Red Army. View quote
Joseph Stalin
I owe everything to the army. View quote
Norman Wisdom
As a consequence of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the officer corps of the old army became part of this class, as did that part of the younger generation who, in the old Germany, would have become officers or civil servants. View quote
Gustav Stresemann
Our strategy in going after this army is very simple. First we are going to cut it off, and then we are going to kill it. View quote
Colin Powell
Always mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy, if possible; and when you strike and overcome him, never let up in the pursuit so long as your men have strength to follow; for an army routed, if hotly pursued, becomes panic-stricken, and can then be destroyed by half their number. The other rule is, never fight against heavy odds, if by any possible maneuvering you can hurl your own force on only a part, and that the weakest part, of your enemy and crush it. Such tactics will win every time, and a small army may thus destroy a large one in detail, and repeated victory will make it invincible. (Stonewall Jackson)
I feel an army in my fist. View quote
Friedrich Schiller
I never joined the army because at ease was never that easy to me. Seemed rather uptight still. I don't relax by parting my legs slightly and putting my hands behind my back. That does not equal ease. At ease was not being in the military. I am at ease, bro, because I am not in the military. View quote
Mitch Hedberg
Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids. View quote
Alexander Graham Bell
I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself. View quote
James A. Michener
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