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What all the wise men promised has not happened and what all the dammed fools said would happen has come to pass.
Thus the skilful general conducts his army just as though he were leading a single man, willy-nilly, by the hand.
I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.
I've lived in 11 states, but I'm not an Army brat. My father couldn't hold a job, so every six months, we'd move.
The average guy doesn't have an army of lobbyists and lawyers working on his behalf every day in the White House.
America loves a winner, and will not tolerate a loser, this is why America has never, and will never, lose a war.
I was in the New Zealand army for like four years, the exact period of when it was on the air, so I never saw it.
Lots of army officers... a large number still believe that I have done my best for this country. They respect me.
After all it was my father who founded the Burmese army and I do have a sense of warmth towards the Burmese army.
I didn't want to work at Pizza Hut and I didn't want to join the Army. So I just decided to go out and be awesome.
I should have liked to come across a large community of pines, which had never been invaded by the lumbering army.
I am going to Spain to fight an army without a general, and thence to the East to fight a general without an army.
When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship.
When World War II started on September 1, 1939, the German army contained 3.74 million soldiers and 103 divisions.
It is so cool to be able to stand as a witness of Christ and to be able to be proud of it and be part of His army.
My dad was a Punjabi from Amritsar, and my mom is a Punjabi from Kashmir. My dad was a soldier in the Indian Army.
They may attack me with an army of six hundred syllogisms; and if I do not recant, they will proclaim me a heretic.
Why in hell can't the Army do it if the Marines can. They are the same kind of men; why can't they be like Marines.
I always wanted to be commander-in-chief of my one-woman army, But I can envision the mediocrity of my finest hour.
The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.
The biggest thing I take away from the Army is that work ethic and being able to focus and put your eyes on a goal.
In 1998, I was trained by the SPLA [Sudanese People's Liberation Army ] in London how to pretend to be a geologist.
When Nixon declared the war on cancer, he had no army. He had no tools. He had no anything, except good intentions.
Therefore a victorious army first wins and then seeks battle; a defeated army first battles and then seeks victory.
My father is a retired Navy officer; my sister is in the army. For me, defence services have been close to my heart.
I think my mum wanted me to join the army or something, or become a surveyor - something with good career prospects.
Every country in the world has its own security system and its own security forces, its own police and its own army.
The army should go back to their assigned duties, and police should take the responsibility of fighting the cartels.
I do Y7 Yoga; I take a lot of Akin's Army classes, soul cycle, boot camps, tone house, SLT, boxing. I do everything.
Tyrannies are overthrown by ideas. Armies are defeated by ideas. Nations, and Time itself, are overmatched by ideas.
I guess if you're stupid enough to join the army without thinking about getting shot at, then you really are a fool.
Either I will come back after hoisting the Tricolor, or I will come back wrapped in it, but I will be back for sure.
Only three men in the Confederate army knew what I was doing or intended to do; they were Lee and Stuart and myself.
When we are growing up, we all have our dreams - and for me, I idolised the men of the Indian army, navy, air force.
Women don't go to war to kill other women. Wars and armies and nuclear weapons are essentially heterosexual hobbies.
An army must have but one line of operations. This must be maintained with care and abandoned only for major reasons.
We and our allies owe and acknowledge an ever-lasting debt of gratitude to the armies and people of the Soviet Union.
The German Army is tired. The vain effort to defeat Russia's armies has used up its equipment and reduced its morale.
If short hair and good manners won football games, Army and Navy would play for the national championship every year.
Being in prison for seven years was like being in an army that never drilled, never deployed, and only fought itself.
I sometimes think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
Canada has sent an army of 1,000 soldiers to occupy the Muslim country of Afghanistan (and ships to the Persian Gulf).
Give me an Army of West Point graduates and I'll win a battle... Give me a handful of Texas Aggies and I'll win a war.
If you thought the army was here protecting people like yourself, I've some news for you, we're here to defend wealth.
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.
He'll sit there are he'll say "Do this! Do that!" and nothing will happen. Poor Ike - it won't be a bit like the army.
I served four years in the Air Force in South Korea, and my brother, Aaron, served in the Army there, too, on the DMZ.
The Three Armies can be deprived of their commanding officer, but even a common man cannot be deprived of his purpose.
When young people are powerful, our Party and People's Army are powerful, and there is nothing for us to be afraid of.