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Army Quotes
"Ataturk sent several Turkish staff officers to Afghanistan, helped them build their own army."
35
"If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army."
30
"The army did what Milosevic's regime asked of it, which was to create a 'Greater Serbia'."
27
"It won't be a question of how well-trained or well-equipped the army is but one of the authority it serves."
27
"Of course, the kind of support that Cuba could give us was very limited when it came to building up our army, since they didn't manufacture armaments in the quantities that we required. So we turned to Algeria and the Soviet Union for support."
25
"From their point of view, I had gone too far. I had to disappear. That is to say, if the Algerian army had not overthrown me, others would have done so."
Army,
19
"In short, we have, among African countries, a duty of solidarity."
17
"An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot."
16
"I am in suspense as to the probable or improbability of being called into the Army, a station I would prefer to any other that of being in arms to defend an injured and grossly insulted country."
14
"You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers."
10
"I think Google should be like a Swiss Army knife: clean, simple, the tool you want to take everywhere."
8
"Indecision is a virus that can run through an army and destroy its will to win or even to survive."
8
"But the Air Force was sort of a bastard child of the Army, much like the Marines with the Navy. Everything had to be done over by the Army after it had already been done by the Air Corps, a mess."
7
"The responsibility of commanding the invasion fell to me, and the task was assigned to my Army Group."
7
"When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression."
7
"We are all proud of having thus contributed to the heretofore magnificent successes of our army."
Army,
6
"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."
6
"As a consequence of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the officer corps of the old army became part of this class, as did that part of the younger generation who, in the old Germany, would have become officers or civil servants."
6
"The finishing off of the encircled enemy army is to be left to the Luftwaffe."
6
"My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more."
6
"I wanted to join the Army the sign said 'Be All That You Can Be', they told me it wasn't enough."
Army,
5
"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."
5
"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."
5
"I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving."
5
"I'm convinced that the infantry is the group in the army which gives more and gets less than anybody else."
Army,
5
"The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists."
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