Quotes About Army

both Sextus' fleet and infantry held back. This was a serious error

More than twenty thousand men, one third of the army, were lost in the month it took to march

the cavalry was better paid than ordinary infantrymen; and officers

Varus saw it, the army was there on a policing rather than a military mission.

In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer.

I've been extremely lucky having been in the army when I was a boy of fourteen.

But of course he hates you for being in the army. All the men who aren't hate all the men that are.

Membership in a conspiracy, as in an army, frees people from the sense of personal responsibility.

My Fish Speakers are a temporary army in every sense. While they can be violent and vicious, women are profoundly different from men in their dedication to battle. The cradle of genesis ultimately predisposes them to behavior more protective of life. They have proved to be the best keepers of the Golden Path.

Loyalty in a male army fastens onto the army itself rather than onto the civilization which fosters the army.

Major Applegate, an eccentric, retired old Army man who had made a fortune by lucky real-estate deals. Years

Indecision is a virus that can run through an army and destroy its will to win or even to survive.

The experience of being in the Army changed my whole life; I never believed that an organization such as ours could ever go to war, leave alone win it. It was, as Yeats remarked of the Easter Rising, 'A terrible beauty.'

My grandparents live in Cley, and my dad now has the windmill which is a guest house. So I've spent much time up there, but a lot of it was at school as well, and my dad was sent abroad so often as well with the army.

When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied acting, which involved dance and fencing and speech classes and history of theater, all that.

I was right wing in my outlook from a very early age, and during my service in the army, which is a melting pot, I was introduced to religious Zionism. I connected with that circle of people on an ideological basis.

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

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.

I always dreamt of becoming an artist in Paris. Thanks to the Army, it happened.

Boxing's a bit like the Army, nine out of 10 people come out as pretty nice people. It taught me self-worth, to respect my elders and what the right thing was to do. As a result, I don't think I even got a single detention at school. It helped me to be good.

I retired from the army." Her eyebrows shot up. "Like my uncle!" "No, not like your uncle. Like a warrant officer, helicopter pilot. Jack said your uncle is a retired three-star. A whole different thing, kid." She grinned at him, but her cheeks took on a little flush. "Just remember, he's retired. He really isn't in charge anymore." He

There is a time for faith, Bishop, and a time for action. It would be a foolish man who stood on a battlefield and faced an army with a Bible in his hands. We are here to do the bidding of our Lord Almighty, but it is through deeds, as well as piety, that we serve Him.

This had the effect of bringing the Roman legions into the southern

The army mustered by this new Macedonian Perseus, in 171 BCE, according to the Roman historian Livy