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One defends when his strength is inadequate, he attacks when it is abundant. — Sun Tzu

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

One who sets the entire army in motion to chase an advantage will not attain it. — Sun Tzu

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

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

Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move. — Sun Tzu

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

An all-volunteer army is best suited to fight the new wars of the 21st century. — George W. Bush

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

The worst calamities that befall an army arise from hesitation — 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

Management of many is the same as management of few. It is a matter of organization. — Sun Tzu

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

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

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

. . . 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

When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard. — 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

-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

To capture an enemies army is better than to destroy it. — Sun Tzu

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

Maybe the ultimate wound is the one that makes you miss the war you got it in. — Sebastian Junger

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

Where some states possess an army, the Prussian Army possesses a state. — Voltaire

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

The grand army would soon be upon us, and war with all its attendant horrors."24 — John Desantis

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

To lead uninstructed people to war is to throw them away. — Confucius

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

Battle is for an army to win or lose; war is for civilization to win or lose. — Ian C. Esslemont

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

... If one who slays one is a murderer then he who slays a thousand is not a hero,' said Lalu.
- Pg. #112, Across the Black Waters. — Mullk Raj Anand

In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer. — Lewis Mumford

WikiLeaks published the Afghan War Logs and U.S. diplomatic cables stolen from a classified network by an Army private. — Rebecca MacKinnon