"It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions."

Army, Sheep

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"It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions."

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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

Army, Challenge, Letters, Newspapers

"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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"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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"Most of the services staff is for the larger corporations, not so much for small and medium businesses because they cannot afford an extensive services army."

Kevin Rollins, American Businessman

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"We have, therefore, directed the Irish Army authorities to have field hospitals established in County Donegal adjacent to Derry and at other points along the Border where they may be necessary."

Jack Lynch, Irish Statesman

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"I felt we really couldn't be separated that much. I'd had a baby, and I was traveling and working alone while he was in the Army. It was very difficult-the phone calls and all of that. I really was very depressed."

Eydie Gorme, American Musician

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"As a 22-year Army Veteran who served in Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom, and as a Civilian Advisor to the Afghan Army in Operation Enduring Freedom, I understand both the gravity of giving the order, and the challenge of carrying it out."

Allen West, American Politician

Army, Challenge, Freedom, Giving

"Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies. This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia."

Ahmed Ben Bella, Algerian Politician

Army, Occupations, Years

"Over all our happy country - over all our Nation spread, Is a band of noble heroes - is our Army of the Dead."

Will Carleton, American Poet

Army, Country, Heroes, Nation

"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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"Necessity makes an honest man a knave."

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"The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear."

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"All men would be tyrants if they could."

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"I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women."

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"Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could."

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"An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch."

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"Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes."

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"Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination."

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"Pride the first peer and president of hell."

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"All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have."

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