"An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot."

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"Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet

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"Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth."

Duke of Wellington, British Royalty

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"At the end of the day, though, the band members have to be strong. It's down to the individuals in the unit. Listen to me, I'm talking like I'm in the army and this is my squadron."

Shirley Manson, Scottish Musician

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"When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression."

Antonio Tabucchi, Italian Writer

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"Somebody was telling me about the French Army rifle that was being advertised on eBay the other day - the description was, 'Never shot. Dropped once."

Roy Blunt, American Politician

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"General Washington had rather incautiously encamped the bulk of his army on Long Island - a large and plentiful district about two miles from the city of New York."

Mercy Otis Warren, American Playwright

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"I owe everything to the army."

Norman Wisdom, English Comedian

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"I wanted to join the Army the sign said 'Be All That You Can Be', they told me it wasn't enough."

Jay London, American Comedian

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"The sergeant is the Army."

Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President

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"I am now the target of the most powerful man in this country, with an army of aides whose major responsibility today seems to be to attack me and get rid of me."

Gerald Walpin, American Public Servant

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"Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise."

Politics

"But with respect to religion itself, without regard to names, and as directing itself from the universal family of mankind to the divine object of adoration, it is man bringing to his maker the fruits of his heart; and though these fruits may differ from each other like the fruits of the earth, the grateful tribute of everyone is accepted."

Spiritual

"A hereditary monarch is as absurd a position as a hereditary doctor or mathematician."

Politics

"Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul."

Philosophy

"He who dares not offend cannot be honest."

Character

"O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, butthe tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression.Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia, and Africa,have long expelled her.?Europe regards her like a stranger, and Englandhath given her warning to depart. O! receive the fugitive, and prepare intime an asylum for mankind."

Freedom

"It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes."

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"All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe."

Faith

"Character is much easier kept than recovered."

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"The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum."

Absence