"When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship."

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"When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship."

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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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"Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations."

Sun Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

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"My vocation is more in composition really than anything else - building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army."

Jimmy Page, British Musician

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"Welcome to the Salvation Army. I've never been associated with an offense so nice about giving the ball away."

Hayden Fry, American Coach

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"Military police is very timely for our army."

Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Russian Politician

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"I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself."

James A. Michener, American Novelist

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"All through the night, like the tumult of a river when it races between the cliffs of a canyon, in my sleep I could hear the steady roar of the passing army."

Richard Harding Davis, American Journalist

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"I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep."

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French Diplomat

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"We are all proud of having thus contributed to the heretofore magnificent successes of our army."

Gustav Krupp, German Businessman

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"I'm convinced that the infantry is the group in the army which gives more and gets less than anybody else."

Bill Mauldin, American Cartoonist

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"I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark."

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"Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss."

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"We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn't it either. I'm going to be an American Citizen. First class."

Thought

"Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten."

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"You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We're the only ones who know what it means to be Brand X."

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"In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport."

Chicago

"In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country."

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"If it wasn't for Abe Lincoln, I'd still be on the open market."

Open

"We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre."

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"And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede."

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