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Under bare lightbulbs, artists painted phantasmagorias powerful enough to threaten armies. — Molly Crabapple

A people who mean to be free must be prepared to meet danger in person, and not rely upon the fallacious protection of armies — Edmund Randolph

We and our allies owe and acknowledge an ever-lasting debt of gratitude to the armies and people of the Soviet Union. — Frank Knox

On the European Front the most important development of the past year has been the crushing offensive of the Great Armies of Russia ... — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Adherence to dogmas has destroyed more armies and cost more battles than anything in war. — J. F. C. Fuller

The passing of armies and the passing of sands in the desert are one. — Cormac McCarthy

Our armies were in as much chaos in victory as theirs in defeat. — Jefferson Davis

When armies are mobilized and issues joined, the man who is sorry over the fact will always win. — Laozi

Here you find us sitting on a field of victory, amid the plunder of armies, and you wonder how we came by a few well-earned comforts! — J.R.R. Tolkien

Even secret armies and political fronts needed clerks — Viet Thanh Nguyen

Armies perfect the art of fighting the last war just in time for the next one. — Max Brooks

Cold steel and discipline and the slight capital surplus necessary to move and organise armies constituted the sole defences. — Winston S. Churchill

Modern empires rise and fall not on armies, ideology, or violence, but on the instantaneous flow of capital. - Boris Karpov — Eric Van Lustbader

Didn't people consider what could happen if armies of farm animals united in revolt? — J.D. Robb

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. — Thomas Jefferson

Soldiers of Israel, we have no aims of conquest. Our purpose is to bring to naught the attempts of the Arab armies to conquer our land. — Moshe Dayan

Too many kings can ruin an army — Homer

When goods don't cross borders, armies will. — David Cudlip

Love of country follows from the exercise of its freedoms, not from pride in its fleets or its armies. — Lewis H. Lapham

Where are our allies, Aelin? Where are our armies? — Sarah J. Maas

Catastrophe, riots, factories blowing up, armies in flight, flood - the ear can detect a whole apocalypse in the starry night of the human body. — Jean Cocteau

When great armies go to war, Sorrow is the sole winner. — Laozi

There are routes not to be followed, armies not to be attacked, citadels not to be besieged, territory not to be fought over. — Sun Tzu

The majority of soldiers and officers of the Soviet Army and the allied armies treated the local population humanely. — Antony Beevor

Armies are dependent on youthful male ignorance. — Rita Mae Brown

The benefit arising from moderate use of strong Liquor have been experienced in all Armies, and are not to be disputed. — George Washington

Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence. — Dora Russell

The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes — Tacitus

If nobody will be so kind as to become my foe, I shall need no more fleets nor armies, and shall be forced to reduce my taxes. — Thomas Paine

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. — Laini Taylor

And the living prayed to their gods and begged for rescue from the armies of the dead, and there was no answer. For there are no gods. — Stacia Kane

If we had adhered to the concept of connectedness, then we would not have created nuclear weapons, huge armies and global warming. — Satish Kumar

Were there no uniforms, there would probably be no armies. — Benjamin Banneker

He thought that I was helpless, because he saw me lonely and poor; but are not the armies of Heaven for the like of me? — Elizabeth Gaskell

Armies under the control of ... a sovereign State cannot bring freedom to anyone. — Simone Weil

Standing armies shall in time be totally abolished. — Immanuel Kant

The scripts that I've been getting are of epic proportion. People want me to lead the big armies. — John Boyega

For the most part, I think American armies are awfully good in the business of protecting civilians, of not going over the line. — Morley Safer

History has shown there are no invincible armies. — Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin

In the thirteenth century the Mongol armies perfected the art of the blitzkrieg with nothing more than shaggy ponies at their disposal. — Isaac Asimov

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an invasion of ideas. - Victor Hugo — John C. Maxwell

More powerful than kings and armies is an idea whose time has come to move. — Carrie Chapman Catt

We make children and wealth and amass land and build halls and assemble armies and give great feasts, but only one thing survives us. Reputation. — Bernard Cornwell

You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders, armies don't. — John Stossel

The leader of armies is the arbiter of the people's fate, the man on whom it depends whether the nation shall be in peace or in peril. — Sun Tzu

It has been said that large staffs are the invariable sign of bad armies. — David Fraser

No one, not all the armies of the world, can stop an idea whose time has come. — Rudrajeet Desai

Armies are a purely human invention. Most soldiers who go to war nowadays don't even do it because they're inherently aggressive. — Frans De Waal

I sincerely believe the banking institutions having the issuing power of money, are more dangerous to liberty than standing armies. — Thomas Jefferson

More powerful than the mighty armies is an idea whose time has come. — Victor Hugo

The most dangerous states in the international system are continental powers with large armies. — John Mearsheimer

By fighting a limited, defensive war, America permitted the enemy to endlessly re-supply their field armies. — Nguyen Cao Ky

When night came on, the Macedonians and the barbarian crowd suddenly took fright in one of those mysterious panics to which great armies are liable — Thucydides

A wise person is able to bring down a thousand armies with a single insight; with wisdom he successfully engages ten thousand armies with just one. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Thorn bushes grow where armies have camped. — Laozi

Leaders that wear the largest hats have few armies to attack a land so this leads them to be sly and cunning as they extend their hand. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide. — Henri Barbusse

Great armies are nothing but a collection of weakness. — Christina, Queen Of Sweden

So long as large armies go to battle, so long will the air arm remain their spearhead. — Cyril Falls

Let my armies be the rocks, and the trees, and the birds in the sky. — Charlemagne

As long as armies exist, any serious quarrel will lead to war. — Albert Einstein

It is at moments of need that one learns who one's friends are. Defeated armies learn their lesson. — Vladimir Lenin

Armies are created to protect an established system, not people. In the future, an educated humanity will not stand for war. — Jacque Fresco

When a king speaks, the armies move. But when a wise man speaks, only the beard shakes. — Vinoba Bhave

It is a great deal to ask of a kitten, to defend a man against the armies of the dead. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Windmills were giants, and the monks' mules dromedaries, flocks of sheep armies of enemies, — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Treasures and armies do not make a king. A true king is a king within himself. — Rumi

If one is intelligent and applies himself well, what can he not accomplish? Even small bands of people, I have heard, have defeated whole armies. — Sakya Pandita

Armies are not only for offensives. — Bashar Al-Assad

God is on everyone's side ... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies. — Jean Anouilh

I am the history of battery assault and limitless
armies against whatever I want to do with my mind and my body and my soul — June Jordan

We don't need mass armies anymore. We replace it with more effective equipment. — George W. Bush

The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight. — A.J.P. Taylor

Men didn't build more armies and forge more weapons without having plans to use them. — Sarah J. Maas

When I looked back, all I could see were flashes of green and blue as my father fought the Titan and the sea itself was torn apart by the two armies. — Rick Riordan

Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there. — Abraham Lincoln

When equal armies battle, the grieving one will be victorious. — Laozi

One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas. — Victor Hugo

Tyrannies are overthrown by ideas. Armies are defeated by ideas. Nations, and Time itself, are overmatched by ideas. — Henry Ward Beecher

The death of a man is like the fall of a mighty nation That had valiant armies, captains, and prophets, And wealthy ports and ships all over the seas. — Czeslaw Milosz

The Three Armies can be deprived of their commanding officer, but even a common man cannot be deprived of his purpose. — Confucius

Bogging down large armies in historically complex, dangerous areas ends in disaster. — Chuck Hagel

National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane. — J. F. C. Fuller

We are governed not by armies and police but by ideas. — Mona Caird

Women don't go to war to kill other women. Wars and armies and nuclear weapons are essentially heterosexual hobbies. — Morrissey

They're all crazy, Oncat. Invisible armies, monster princes. Let's go set fire to something. — Leigh Bardugo

Invading armies can be resisted, invading ideas cannot be. — Victor Hugo

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. — Virginia Woolf

One voice speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies ... — Ursula K. Le Guin

Two armies at death-grips - that is one great army committing suicide. — Henri Barbusse

Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas. — Mona Caird

The armies of the day have chased the army of the night, Heaven and earth are filled with purity and light. — Rumi

Launches usually moved into the armies together, — Orson Scott Card

No doubt much will be said elsewhere by the armies of bigotry and punditry. Let them volley and thunder. I'll speak of bookish things. — Salman Rushdie

It is war now, and armies need symbols. — Lauren Oliver

With the exception of wars of liberation, everything that armies do is by foul means. — Victor Hugo

If governments were kind, they'd realize that conficts are resolved and wars prevented not by armies but by ordinary people. — Scilla Elworthy

Disperse your menacing armies! And relinguish your delicious stores of Nestle Crunch bars. — Chuck Palahniuk

True warfare in which large rival armies fight to the death is known only in man and in social insects. — Richard Dawkins