Quotes About Army

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.

The wastefulness of indiscriminate plunder impoverishes a country, while it adds nothing to the support of the army; policy, as well as humanity to the inhabitants, dictates that all levies should be made according to established rules, and under the charge of discreet and competent officers.

When I say, 'I am supporting the police or the army,' I am talking about the army in general and the police in general. In general, those institutions are good institutions.

My mother was always deeply attracted to anything medical, and I think she would have loved me to have been a doctor. My father was in the army for 21 years, came out just before I was born. There was no history of showbusiness on either side of the family, but they were completely supportive.

Will Beijing really send out the army to suppress our protests? Never say never.

Born in poverty, he will take supreme power. He will bankrupt the country. Raising an army in the Milanese marches, he will drain Faenza and Florence of gold and people.

I went to school on a military base in Germany. I got a lot of my clothes at the army surplus store.

The word lost comes from the Old Norse los, meaning the disbanding of an army and this origin suggests soldiers falling out of formation to go home, a truce with the wide world. I worry now that many people never disband their armies never go beyond what they know.

stressful year after year? One reason is the ever-evolving army of mind viruses, taking over a greater and greater

Who in their right mind doesn't like flying?" Jack asked, with a quirk of his eyebrows. "Army, Navy, and Marines, sir." "And there's a reason they're not on my team, Captain. I believe I did qualify it with right mind.

You never have perfect knowledge in combat, gentlemen. It's what we call the fog of war. You can either sit around worrying what's real and what's not, or you can realize the enemy hasn't got a clue either and fire off a few rounds of psychology. A truly great army is one that only has to rattle its saber to win a war.

El ejército cuyas tropas se pegan menos entre sí es el que triunfa sobre el otro.

He had taken a few days' leave from his army training and they had taken refuge in the Charing Cross Hotel while an unexploded bomb in the Strand was being dealt with. They could hear the naval guns that had been stationed on trolleys between Vauxhall and Waterloo--boom-boom-boom--but the bombers were looking for other targets and seemed to have moved on. 'Doesn't it ever stop?' Jimmy asked. 'Apparently not.' 'It's safer in the army,' he laughed.

The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!

I became a Communist because I fell in love with a man who was a Red and entered the Army to take care of the Fascists, and I knew it would please him if I became one

And the English army, wheeling, started south at a gallop over the hill pass into Ettrick, followed by twenty men and eight hundred sheep in steel helmets.

The only way to form an army to be confided in, was a systematic discipline, by which means all men may be made heroes.

All the money needed to send and support an army of self-sacrificing, joy-spreading ambassadors is already in the church.

I have very good friends who are in the army and also friends within the police force. When I say friends, people who love my music and who actually love the messages within my music.

The Army, as usual, are without pay; and a great part of the soldiery without shirts; and though the patience of them is equally threadbare, the States seem perfectly indifferent to their cries.

The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one's country

He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.

We will spend the rest of the day inventing a kind of love that no longer exists in the world, a kind of love no army can pillage at the outposts, no rumor could bring to its knees like a traitor.

The army will hear nothing of politics from me and in return I expect to hear nothing of politics from the army.