Army Quotes

Do not forget that the armed forces are the servants of the people. You do not make national policy; it is we, the civilians, who decide these issues and it is your duty to carry out these tasks with which you are entrusted.

~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah

that feeling that I could touch the sky? That’s exactly how you make me feel.” (Ray)

~ Charles Sheehan-Miles

I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.

~ Mickey Mantle

A wounded lover is more dangerous than a coward army.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

You don't want captains in the army who know too much or think too much.

~ Robert Graves

Disease could wipe out an army quicker than any battle.

~ George R.r. Martin

It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.

~ Babe Ruth

First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.

~ Horatio Nelson

Strength lies not in defence but in attack.

~ Marquis De Acerba

Live for something rather than die for nothing.

~ George S. Patton Jr.

Victory is a thing of the will.

~ Marshal Foch

It occurred to me that if I could invent a machine - a gun - which could by its rapidity of fire, enable one man to do as much battle duty as a hundred, that it would, to a large extent supersede the necessity of large armies, and consequently, exposure to battle and disease [would] be greatly diminished.

~ Richard Jordan Gatling

I can see the little girl, the face of the little girl. And as much as people say that they don't care about these people and all that, I don't care about these people - but I do, at the same time, if that makes any sense. They don't want to help themselves, they're blowing us up, yeah, that hurts, but it also hurts to know that I've seen a girl that's as old as my little brother watch me shoot somebody in the head. And I don't care if she's Iraqi, Korean, African, white - she's still a little girl. And she watched me shoot somebody.

~ David Finkel

What would my first sergeant do if he came across me and another girl getting it on? He'd want pictures. He'd want to join in. He'd want me and this other girl to double-team him right then and there. On the other hand, since most heterosexual men are homophobic and sexist, most straight guys figure gay men will treat them the way they themselves treat women- that is, like sex objects. And this freaks them the fuck out.

~ Kayla Williams

But if you want him, you might have to fight for him. I let my head fall to the tabletop. For the love of all that is dead and Chinese, please, no more fighting. This army needs a break.

~ Paula Stokes

In army they say Shoot to Kill and in Sales Pitch to Sell.

~ Honeya

Esteem for the army - never in this country regarded, in the continental manner, as a popular expression of the national will - implies a kind of innocence.

~ Anthony Powell

You have a powerful army, Kublai, but the best force is one you do not have to use.

~ Conn Iggulden

I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army.Visiting Kathy's grave was the less dramatic of the two.

~ John Scalzi

Put 'em who threaten possessions and power together with 'em who offend our tastes in sex and dope. Those who're touched, put 'em in asylums. Pack off old ones to 'senior communities,' nursing homes. Our children? Keep'em prisoner, baby-sitter as warden. School? Good for fifteen to twenty years. Army afterward. Liberated, we live in prison. No this, no that. Kill us before we die!

~ John Cage

Boys torment each other when there’s nothing else to do and no Frenchmen to fight.

~ Christian Cameron

We All Bleed RedWe have a confirmed threat against the homeland and I for one am grateful for the Americans sitting in the Army conference room in Fort Stewart, Georgia. The display cubes and screens lets us see different locations, cities, departments of the armed forces. It also allows us to see three commonalities. (1) We are all different. I take such pleasure in seeing the diverse group we call the intelligence community. We are different races, nationalities, and ethnic groups.(2) This brings us to the second commonality…we are all Americans. Yes, we fuss, we have differences of opinions, but we are all Americans.(3) The third and most important commonality is the fact that we all bleed red. We are humankind.These are the bonds that unite us…bond us…make us better beings. I have not mentioned religion because my God allows me to respect other people’s belief. I just ask that as we work through this crisis that we hold dearly on to these three commonalities.The Director of National Intelligence

~ James M. Robinson

8 April 1891The obscenity of nostrils and mouths; the ignominious cupidity of smiles and women encountered in the street; the shifty baseness on every side, as of hyenas and wild beasts ready to bite: tradesmen in their shops and strollers on their pavements. How long must I suffer this? I have suffered it before, as a child, when, descending by chance to the servant's quarters, I overheard in astonishment their vile gossip, tearing up my own kind with their lovely teeth.This hostility to the entire race, this muted detestation of lynxes in human form, I must have rediscovered it later while at school. I had a repugnance and horror for all base instincts, but am I not myself instinctively violent and lewd, murderous and sensual? Am I any different, in essence, from the members of the riotous and murderous mob of a hundred years ago, who hurled the town sergeants into the Seine and cried, 'String up the aristos!' just as they shout 'Down with the army!' or 'Death to the Jews!

~ Jean Lorrain

In this respect I expressed my doubts about using the Corps directly on the South coast, to form a bridgehead for the Army - as the area immediately behind the coast was now covered with obstacles. These doubts were accepted by Hitler.

~ Kurt Student

An army marches on its stomach.

~ Napoléon Bonaparte

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

~ William Tecumseh Sherman

I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War.

~ Larry David

First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin or when inhaled in aerosol form. Like other nerve agents, it is treatable in the first minutes after exposure but otherwise leads swiftly to fatal convulsions and respiratory failure.

~ Barton Gellman

The eventual place the American army should take on the western front was to a large extent influenced by the vital question of communication and supply.

~ Kelly Miller

One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

~ Victor Hugo

I grew up poor, but I didn't really know it because of amazing places like the Salvation Army where we got a lot of our Christmas presents from.

~ Trey Songz

It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.

~ Sun Tzu

But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for destruction, we have been transformed into an implacable army of liberation.

~ George Jackson

The Irish Republican Army has kept every commitment made by its leadership.

~ Gerry Adams

After I spent my compulsory army service in the 'top secret office' of the Medical Forces, where I was fortunate to be exposed to clinical and medical issues, I enrolled to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

~ Ada Yonath

I'd come out of the army after five years as a medic. I was a medical administrator and we ran hospitals, and I was a Captain in the army at the end, in 1945.

~ Eli Wallach

I found out that colonels can stay until they drop dead or get a walker and being a critical medical specialty as an Army trained emergency room doctor, I could stay until age 67.

~ Gerald Griffin

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.

~ Joseph Stalin

I'm always ready for the enemy to come over the hill. I'm packed and set to go. That comes from my time in the army. I used to travel in a tank, but now it's a tour bus going to safer places.

~ James Blunt

How long was I in the army? Five foot eleven.

~ Spike Milligan