Quotes About Army

Guadalcanal, wrote General Kawaguchi, was "no longer merely a name of an island in Japanese military history. It is the name of the graveyard of the Japanese Army.

I will forever be thankful to the Malawians and international community, and my professional army and army general, who said: 'No, we will follow the constitution.' That's why I'm here.

Es sabido que en política internacional las imposiciones deben sustentarse por las armas. Dicho de otro modo: cada nación tiene la importancia de su ejército. El que mea más lejos es el más poderoso y puede imponer su voluntad a los demás.

The full and free pardon granted by President Buchanan was received resentfully by most of the Mormons, who still felt that the sending of the army had been a gross insult to them. It was they who should have pardoned the President, they thought. But it had worked out well for them, and Brigham Young had conducted affairs in a masterful manner; his word would be law to them, regardless of who the civil officers were.

I'm convinced that the infantry is the group in the army which gives more and gets less than anybody else.

My dad was in the Army, so what was happening internationally and nationally was always important to my family.

Shit!" I shouted at him. "Now listen, my friend. The youth have no role. They have no jobs. They have no money. They are not in power and they do not make decisions. If there is going to be a war, they will be dumped into the army. And they will be killed like young men everywhere have been killed - whether or not they believe in the war. Having no role is their role.

I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.

Itinerant evangelists are the most important ambassadors and messengers on earth. They are a mighty army, spreading out across the world with a vision to reach their own people for Christ.

Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision.

the only war the nation would ever lose to an Indian army.

You've had three months of training, which is barely enough to get you in the Army, never mind the Nightstalkers. But you've already worked with the team. And you're still alive, so that's a pretty good test that you've passed. Twice.

Or is what remains in me like a defeated army, Fleeing in disarray from victory already won?

Look at what the words start with W and E—meaning "WE." If the Army approved and supplied the pins, and you were my battalion and we were going to war, I would have every soldier wear a pin with the letters "WE," denoting "WE" as a family and "WE" as without equal. This is a war-winning theme that would not let us go down in any battle…ever!

Good God, girl!" shouted her uncle. "It was an army of individuals! They walked off their farms and walked to the War!

Captain Chung Pei-fu of the Koumintang Army. A career soldier who had dedicated his life to war and who had never fought a battle.

But didn't you say you were satisfied with your life? Word games, I dismissed. Every army needs a flag.

I was first introduced to Kafka's writing during my compulsory army-service basic training. During that period, Kafka's fiction felt hyperrealistic.

It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.

I was honored to have served in the Army for my country. I was at Anzio during WWII, and it makes you realize how very precious life is.

There's an army story in me, and I think there's a WWII Brooks film somewhere.

I grew up in Hollywood during WWII, and my mother was afraid that my father was going to be drafted because she didn't think we were going to be able to live on army pay. She didn't want to have to get a job, so she decided to put me to work, and that's how I got started in the movies.

You know, actually, I went to Yale because I wanted to stay out of the army.

When the Revolution triumphed in 1959, our island was a true Yankee colony. The United States had duped and disarmed our Liberation Army. One couldn't speak of developed agriculture, but of immense plantations exploited on the base of manual and animal labour that in general used neither fertilizers nor machinery.