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Sixteen- and 17-year-olds pay taxes and can join the army, so surely they should in turn be given their right to vote.
The only way to form an army to be confided in, was a systematic discipline, by which means all men may be made heroes.
Independent thinking is not encouraged in a professional Army. It is a form of mutiny. Obedience is the supreme virtue.
Now what do you get in the Army? Bad helmets and Basra. Your guns don't work and everyone hates you when you come back.
There are many people who do not know if the U.S. Army has 60,000 men or 6 million. They do not have a clue about that.
The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.
The chief attraction of military service has consisted and will consist in this compulsory and irreproachable idleness.
Let's withdraw from Afghanistan and have the army invade America - that's the only way we'll get new schools and roads.
WikiLeaks published the Afghan War Logs and U.S. diplomatic cables stolen from a classified network by an Army private.
Place your army in deadly peril, and it will survive; plunge it into desperate straits, and it will come off in safety.
I do hang on to things. I was so happy my father saved his army jacket. I grew up wearing that all through high school.
Have we the means of resisting disciplined armies, when our only defence, the militia, is put in the hands of Congress?
A cherished cause and a general who inspires confidence by previous success are powerful means of electrifying an army.
The Israeli army had the most sophisticated weaponry and they used it against residential towers, schools and hospitals.
The noble Lord (Stanley) was the Prince Rupert to the Parliamentary army--his valour did not always serve his own cause.
This army stays here until the last wounded man is removed. Before I leave them to the enemy, I will lose many more men.
The Red Army... swept the native population clean in a manner that has no parallel since the days of the Asiatic hordes.
The Red Army is like a furnace in which all captured soldiers are melted down and transformed the moment they come over.
The women of the United States are nothing but brood sows, having sons to be put into the army and made into fertilizer.
After being thrown out of the house, four schools and the United States Army, I discovered that I was on the right track.
Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; as true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.
If honor be your clothing, the suit will last a lifetime; but if clothing be your honor, it will soon be worn threadbare.
My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he saluted, he killed himself.
The whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak violence upon South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate.
I was in high school and 9/11 happened. My boyfriend joined the army and I was extremely disgusted with this war fervour.
Commanders and senior officers should die with troops. The honour of the British Empire and the British Army is at stake.
The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.
All the money needed to send and support an army of self-sacrificing, joy-spreading ambassadors is already in the church.
It is difficult to be a good noncommissioned officer. If it had been easy, they would have given it to the officer corps.
Our strategy in going after this army is very simple. First we are going to cut it off, and then we are going to kill it.
Being part of 'Raw 1000' in the same ring with Undertaker and Kane leading an army of young hungry wrestlers was amazing.
there is enough treachery , hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day
I come from an army background, and everyone at my home has a habit of getting up early. I continue this habit even today.
Many armies fail because they put all their emphasis into creating a plan that becomes useless ten minutes into the battle
The Army (considering the irritable state it is in, its suffering and composition) is a dangerous instrument to play with.
Laying siege to enemy-controlled cities allows attacking armies to keep their own casualties low by avoiding urban combat.
In the army you feel violated - there's no private space. Writing was a life-saver, a way of recovering private territory.
We went from crop to crop, field to field. And my father had that army truck, a 1940s army truck from Fort Bliss, El Paso.
If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.
It's nonsense that people join the army to serve the country, like the politicians do it only for the sake of the country.
My great uncle was in 'Dad's Army.' And I don't know if Americans will know that. It was a hugely popular show in England.
And try to stay out of trouble with the ladies. Remember, they all have fathers and brothers and some of them have armies.
For we must share, if we would keep, that blessing from above; ceasing to give, we cease to have; such is the law of love.
General Longstreet,when once in a fight, was a most brilliant soldier; but he was the hardest man to move I had in my army.
When I was in the army in the Golani troops, I served with Zionist and modern Orthodox guys and I became friends with them.
There's not much makeup in the army, is there? No. They only have that nighttime look, and that's a bit slapdash, isn't it?
... the benefit arising from moderate use of strong Liquor have been experienced in all Armies, and are not to be disputed.
If governments were kind, they'd realize that conficts are resolved and wars prevented not by armies but by ordinary people.
And the one job my father knew of, that he'd had experience of himself, was the Army, so he could help me in that direction.