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The distant rear of an army engaged in battle is not the best place from which to judge correctly what is going on in front.
The government's only functions are to protect the rights of the individual; therefore, you need a police force and an army.
It turns out one of my ancestors fought in the Continental Army, so I was inducted into the Sons of the American Revolution.
I didn't even graduate from high school. I've never told anybody that before. I got my degree later, when I was in the army.
Armies are created to protect an established system, not people. In the future, an educated humanity will not stand for war.
I spent four years in the United States Army between 1985 and 1989, and I certainly learned how to survive out in the woods.
If we could just stop building up armies and things like that, we would have all the money we need for wildlife and poverty.
When I was in the Army, 100 percent of our effort was to really be sharp, and soldiers, we were under live fire all the time.
Courage is rarely reckless or foolish... courage usually involves a highly realistic estimate of the odds that must be faced.
In the 1980s, the U.S. Army invaded two Caribbean countries, Grenada and Panama, to depose leaders who had defied Washington.
I suppose I could have called in the whole of the Army, but what was the use? All I had to do was call in Main Street itself.
A cowardly act! What do I care about that? You may be sure that I should never fear to commit one if it were to my advantage.
My father was in the army, and you know not to talk about things on the telephone that you wouldn't want to hear transmitted.
I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them.
There are routes not to be followed, armies not to be attacked, citadels not to be besieged, territory not to be fought over.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
Crassus was in the habit of maintaining that nobody should be called rich who was not able to maintain an army on his income.
The only salvation for us is to stop being an incoherent, loose mob and to change into a strongly organized, disciplined army.
We've got to show that blacks and whites are treated equally in the army. Otherwise, what's the point of waging war on Hitler?
Those far distant, storm-beaten ships, upon which the Grand Army never looked, stood between it and the dominion of the world.
Cossacks are the best light troops among all that exist. If I had them in my army, I would go through all the world with them.
I don't care what America and Africa think; I am only concerned that the people of this country should be saved from its Army.
I was discharged from the army for idiocy and officially certified by a special commission as an idiot. I'm an official idiot.
Army, Marriage, the Church, and Baking: the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse. Fermin Romero de Torres - The Shadow of the Wind.
I can assure our countrymen that India is safe in the hands of the brave warriors of our Army, Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard.
I did not have any money, so when I came to New York, I just dressed myself with whatever I could find and the Army-Navy store.
The loss of any army is always caused by underestimating the enemy. Therefore gather information and watch the enemy carefully.
Everybody needs to understand that I learned Arabic from the United States Army as a second language. I never spoke it at home.
I joined the army after 9/11, after the Iraq war was started. I joined in part because I wanted to go fight on the front lines.
Capital, created by the labour of the worker, crushes the worker, ruining small proprietors and creating an army of unemployed.
If you look at how the federal government spends our money, it’s an insurance conglomerate protected by a large, standing army.
It would be easier to fight the Russian army, and it would give me great satisfaction, but I have a responsibility to my people
Still, I love a campaign. I'm never happier than when I'm fighting shoulder to shoulder with our growing army of foot soldiers.
Once upon a time, the sky knew the weight of angel armies on the move, and the wind blew infernal with the fire of their wings.
But no one walks out of his family without reprisals: a family is too disciplined an army to offer compassion to its deserters.
The job of a football coach is to make men do what they don't want to do, in order to achieve what they've always wanted to be.
The uniform I wear today is that of the United States Army. We do not serve any particular political party; we serve the nation.
If we can take Harry Reid out, we can take our country back. I'm not here to preach to the choir. I'm here to organize the army.
For a country boy, poor as I was, whose constant worry was to be able to have enough to eat, the Army guaranteed one's survival.
I've always had a keen interest in the world. My father was in Patton's 3rd Army, and he helped liberate Dachau in the 7th Army.
Planning is really the hallmark of any large military formation, and it's typically a weakness in new formations and new armies.
No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.
Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh...to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies.
In 2001, we didn't have an army; we had remnants of a dissolved army that had no hope. Our generals had literally become busboys.
Armies are a purely human invention. Most soldiers who go to war nowadays don't even do it because they're inherently aggressive.
I am indebted to the Indian Army, from my birth till now; I have grown and imbibed the indomitable spirit of this fighting force.
I have grown up with guns all my life, but people who like assault weapons they should join the United States Army, we have them.
Left right left right. We're army ants. We swarm we fight. We have no home. We roam. We race. You're lucky if we miss your place.
A form of government that is not the result of a long sequence of shared experiences, efforts, and endeavors can never take root.
The existence of such an [international Islamic] army rules out the superpowers' interference in disputes among Muslim countries.