Quotes About Army

The strength of an Army lies in strict discipline and undeviating obedience to its officers.

We also very importantly recommend continued growth in the Army and the Marine Corps end strength.

Our poetry emulates the recent progress in military strategy: Our army's strength is the foot soldiers.

Les Siciliens sont, après ou même avant les Napolitains, le peuple le plus criard de la Terre. Cette loquacité fait le désespoir d'un brave colonel anglais qui a pris du service dans l'armée de Garibaldi et qui s'est chargé de l'instruction de deux ou trois cents recrues.

The American republics have no standing armies to intimidate a discontented minority; but as no minority has as yet been reduced to declare open war, the necessity of an army has not been felt.

All former confederate governments presided over communities, but that of the Union rules individuals; its force is not borrowed, but self-derived; and it is served by its own civil and military officers, by its own army, and its own courts of justice.

We will fight the white man, they said. But the white man is not alone, said the chief. He has brought his army.

I hadn't thought about what any army trains for. It merely maintains itself here for no exterior purpose.

In the army of indigence the uniform is rags; they serve to distinguish the rank and file from the recruiting officers.

An army is an instrument of government. It must be used in such a way that it furthers the interests of government. Otherwise what use is it? Only an extremely costly machine for … minting medals.

A good sign that an army has been around too long is that it starts getting top-heavy with officers.

Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.

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.

That's what the army did, it created crises before any existed; it created a military emergency out of the void, the way God created the heavens and the earth.

It is the love of the [British] people; it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution, which gives you both your army and your navy, and infuses into both that liberal obedience, without which your army would be a base rabble, and your navy nothing but rotten timber.

when his drinking had cost him discharge from the Army. He had known it again after Shiloh, that uncoordinated

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

His speeches left the impression of an army of pompous phrases moving over the landscape in search of an idea.

I saw a film today, oh boy.The English army had just won the war.A crowd of people turned away.But I just had to look,Having read the book.I'd love to turn you on.

We're in the army now,We're not behind a plow;We'll never get richA-diggin' a ditch,We're in the army now.

That's why you'll never catch me saluting a flag. I abhor all national flags because they are idols. What are we saluting? I salute humanity, not a flag with an army around it.

It was a splendid sight: an army peacefully encamped on land and a great fleet lying quietly offshore.

and in so doing created an experienced army that would follow wherever he led.

The remaining units of the republican army surrendered.