Army Quotes - page 2

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. (Václav Havel)
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. View quote
Milton Friedman
All of us recruits are equal in the eyes of the Army: low as you can go. View quote
Garth Nix
It is tragic that the Fuehrer should have the whole nation behind him with the single exception of the Army generals. In my opinion it is only by action that they can now atone for their faults of lack of character and discipline. View quote
Alfred Jodl
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. View quote
Erich von Manstein
A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence. View quote
Otto von Bismarck
I'm convinced that the infantry is the group in the army which gives more and gets less than anybody else. View quote
Bill Mauldin
I would like to thank the people who encouraged me to draw army cartoons at a time when the gag man's conception of the army was one of mean ole sergents and jeeps which jump over mountains. View quote
Bill Mauldin
The sergeant is the Army. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Where the army is, prices are high; when prices rise the wealth of the people is exhausted. View quote
Sun Tzu
The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other. (Mario Puzo)
No one will pay you for planning an expedition at first: you have to work in pubs at weekends so you can pay the gas bills. I joined the Territorial Army, which paid me when I turned up to drill nights, and so did my wife. View quote
Ranulph Fiennes
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts. View quote
Robert H. Schuller
So the whole of war, when you look at it is probably run by professional soldiers, and the rest of them are just recruits, or people who are just forced to join the army. View quote
Gerald Scarfe
The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility. View quote
Oded Fehr
Welcome to the Salvation Army. I've never been associated with an offense so nice about giving the ball away. View quote
Hayden Fry
Debt is such a powerful tool, it is such a useful tool, it's much better than colonialism ever was because you can keep control without having an army, without having a whole administration. View quote
Susan George
The moment you enlist in the army of God, you personally become a target. You need to remember that if you're living for and walking with Jesus Christ, the powers of darkness are aligned against you. View quote
Walter Martin
In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army. View quote
Zebulon Pike
Our Party's Songun-based revolutionary leadership, Songun-based politics, is a revolutionary mode of leadership and socialist mode of politics that gives top priority to military affairs, and defends the country, the revolution and socialism and dynamically pushes ahead with overall socialist construction by dint of the revolutionary mettle and combat capabilities of the People's Army. View quote
Kim Jong-il
Glory to the heroic soldiers of the Korean People's Army! (Kim Jong-il)
When a sixth of the population of a nation which has undertaken to be the refuge of liberty are slaves, and a whole country is unjustly overrun and conquered by a foreign army, and subjected to military law, I think that it is not too soon for honest men to rebel and revolutionize. What makes this duty the more urgent is the fact that the country so overrun is not our own, but ours is the invading army. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Without the elected president and if there is a freak result, within two or three years, the army would have to come in and stop it. View quote
Lee Kuan Yew
One will readily agree that any army which does not train to use all the weapons, all the means and methods of warfare that the enemy possesses, or may posses, is behaving in an unwise or even criminal manner. This applies to politics even more than it does to the art of war. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
At the age of nineteen, on my own initiative and at my own expense, I raised an army by means of which I restored liberty to the republic, which had been oppressed by the tyranny of a faction. For which service the senate, with complimentary resolutions, enrolled me in its order... View quote
Augustus