Army War Quotes
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The Army of Northern Virginia was never defeated. It merely wore itself out whipping the enemy.
— Jubal Early
America loves a winner, and will not tolerate a loser, this is why America has never, and will never, lose a war.
— George S. Patton
No one leads an army to war, unless they have first served in battle
— Gaiven Clairmont
It would be as if the Navy Seals defected from the U.S. Army to help the Crips take over Los Angeles
and succeeded. — Johann Hari
and succeeded. — Johann Hari
I had the first integrated Army band in World War II.
— Dave Brubeck
It takes thousands of bullets to kill an army but one to end a war.
— Michael Martinez
A rational army would run away.
— Baron De Montesquieu
Good order and discipline in any army are to be depended upon more than courage alone.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Some mules just seem to be born with the hee-haw habit. Back home we call those fellows 'Missouri Nightingales'.
— Maureen Daly
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
An army which cannot be regularly recruited is a doomed army.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Adherence to dogmas has destroyed more armies and cost more battles than anything in war.
— J. F. C. Fuller
Our armies were in as much chaos in victory as theirs in defeat.
— Jefferson Davis
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.
— George S. Patton Jr.
I want my army to be an army of the living God.
— Stonewall Jackson
The principle on which to manage an army is to set up one standard of courage which all must reach.
— Sun Tzu
There is no doubt that the adsence of a second front in Europe considerably relieves the position of the German army.
— Joseph Stalin
I will always hate war, but will be forever proud of mine.
— David Bellavia
When I first went into the active Army, you could tell someone to move a chair across the room. Now you have to tell them why.
— Robert Lembke
Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him.
— William Shakespeare
We are the folk song army, every one of us cares. We all hate poverty, war, and injustice unlike the rest of you squares.
— Tom Lehrer
A standing army is a standing menace to liberty.
— Voltairine De Cleyre
If any of you get hernias in this tug-of-war against the Army, I'll pay to get them fixed.
— Robert E. Haebel
Maybe it's time to stop being a soldier and go home to be a father. And a husband for Deanna. I'm not sure how.
— David Bellavia
How can Blair fight a war on terror? Terror is not an ideology or an army; terror is a technique.
— David Hockney
My heart is full and my weapon is clean.
— Jason Christopher Hartley
Like an army defeated the snow hath retreated.
— William Wordsworth
My Dear McClellan, if you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully.
— Abraham Lincoln
A clever general, therefore, avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return.
— Sun Tzu
We were not told how Alexander the Great was the last person in history to successfully 'pacify' what would become Afghanistan, over 2,000 years ago.
— Jake Wood
Carefully compare the opposing army with your own, so that you may know where strength is superabundant and where it is deficient.
— Sun Tzu
The whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak violence upon South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
The soldier is the army.
— George S. Patton
Hopefully one day Wars will only be fought in movies. And may the best producer win!
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
An army abroad is of little use unless there are prudent counsels at home.
[Lat., Parvi enim sunt foris arma, nisi est consilium domi.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero
[Lat., Parvi enim sunt foris arma, nisi est consilium domi.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero
. . . An army cannot be run according to rules of etiquette.
— Samuel B. Griffith
Don't ask, don't tell means that World War III will pit the Chinese Red Army against the Pink Army of the United States.
— Bill Gaede
To where? We don't know. To do what? We don't know either. No one tells us anything. We just follow orders.
— Derrick Wolf
Tick wanted power. He wanted glory. He wanted war, with himself in command. He had raised his army
— Jeanne DuPrau
Spies are a most important element in water, because on them depends an army's ability to move.
— Sun Tzu
The northern soldiers are just men," Hal told the men in his command. "And women," he amended. "When you cut them, they bleed, just like us.
— Cinda Williams Chima
He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
We have an army far better adapted to attack than to defend. Let us fight at advantage before we are forced to fight at disadvantage.
— J. E. B. Stuart
It is the business of cavalry to follow up the victory, and to prevent the beaten army from rallying.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Good God, girl!" shouted her uncle. "It was an army of individuals! They walked off their farms and walked to the War!
— Harper Lee
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
Maneuvering with an army is advantageous; with an undisciplined multitude, most dangerous.
— Sun Tzu
When World War II started on September 1, 1939, the German army contained 3.74 million soldiers and 103 divisions.
— John Mearsheimer
He is a true casualty of battle. There's not a physical scar, but look at the man's heart, and his head, and there are scars galore.
— David Finkel
The other day, we went somewhere, and did something.
— Colby Buzzell
On several occasions during the war he came to the relief of the Union army by means of his SUPERIOR MILITARY GENIUS.
— Ulysses S. Grant
Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home.
— Sun Tzu
But, hey, remember: If things don't work out in your life, you can always just turn to drugs or join the Army.
— Jason Christopher Hartley
Are you okay, man?"
"Yeah, I'm good."
It's a lie. I wonder if I will ever be good again. — David Bellavia
"Yeah, I'm good."
It's a lie. I wonder if I will ever be good again. — David Bellavia
-You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!
— Joseph Heller
Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?
— Bill Watterson
Armies are created to protect an established system, not people. In the future, an educated humanity will not stand for war.
— Jacque Fresco
The American way of war is to build an army, then another, then a third, while building fleets. If the war is still on at that point we smash.
— Jerry Pournelle
War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of.
— Sebastian Junger
War: First day in the U.S. Army, the government placed a Bible in my left hand, a bayonet in the other.
— Edward Abbey
Independent thinking is not encouraged in a professional Army. It is a form of mutiny. Obedience is the supreme virtue.
— David Lloyd George
Lee's army will be your objective point. Wherever Lee goes, there you will go also.
— Ulysses S. Grant
We will form an army of poor, where every poor will be a soldier and we will win the war against poverty on behalf of their strength.
— Narendra Modi
By the war's end, some 180,000 blacks had served in the Union Army - over one fifth of the nation's adult male black population under age forty-five.
— Eric Foner
Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there.
— Abraham Lincoln
Take up the weapons of the glorious army for the salvation of many thousands.
— Adela Of Normandy
I went into the Army believing that if you want peace you must prepare for war. I now believe that if you prepare thoroughly for war you will get it.
— John Frederick Maurice
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?
— Josephine Baker
In the World War, we used propaganda to make the boys accept conscription. They were made to feel ashamed if they didn't join the army.
— Smedley D. Butler
Killing people is easier than it should be." Dad put on his beret. "Staying alive is harder.
— Laurie Halse Anderson
Without supplies no army is brave.
— Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
Appearances can be misleading. You just never know what's inside someone until he's tested.
— Daniel Rodriguez
A dead war horse is the single most expensive corpse you'll ever see.
— Christian Cameron
Only Jack has remarked on the irony that America is going to war against a white supremacist enemy with a segregated American army.
— Michael Grant
A sovereign should never launch an army out of anger, a leader should never start a war out of wrath
— Sun Tzu
Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction! Be heroes in an army of construction!
— Helen Keller
You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.
— Donald Rumsfeld
Thus those skilled in war subdue the enemy's army without battle ... They conquer by strategy.
— Sun Tzu
They be marching hand in hand, like going to war.
— Alice Walker
Nor should the U.S. military be forced to remain in Iraq essentially as an army for one side of a civil war.
— Peter DeFazio
If governments were kind, they'd realize that conficts are resolved and wars prevented not by armies but by ordinary people.
— Scilla Elworthy
You must be a light unto yourself.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti