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Army Quotes
"A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform, which they know is but earth or stone; nor of a cannon, which, without a hand to give fire to it, is but cold iron; therefore a whole army is afraid of one man."
21
"The prosperity of a nation requires the protection of a senate. Hereafter a national senate may require the protection of a national army."
20
"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."
20
"When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression."
20
"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."
20
"Those who served, and those who continue to serve in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard took an oath to uphold and protect the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic, and we can never forget the importance of their commitment to our Nation."
19
"In spite of certain distressing but isolated occurrences in the last battle, I certainly hoped that the Army would be in a position to continue to hold out."
19
"The finishing off of the encircled enemy army is to be left to the Luftwaffe."
19
"There was a nuisance in the service known as the army correspondent."
18
"At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets."
17
"Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels."
17
"Two new reports indicate that, under Bush, the Army is overstretched and under enormous strain. The National Guard and reserves have been weakened and we are experiencing numerous recruiting problems."
17
"A doctor today would never prescribe the treatments my grandfather used in the Confederate Army, but a minister says pretty much the same thing today that a minister would have said back then."
17
"Skill and confidence are an unconquered army."
16
"The highly skilled workers at Lima have enabled the plant to grow far beyond its original mission, now providing a wide variety of cutting-edge military vehicles and equipment to the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps."
15
"Military police is very timely for our army."
15
"We are all proud of having thus contributed to the heretofore magnificent successes of our army."
Army,
14
"Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had disintegrated."
14
"I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep."
14
"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."
13
"The East India Company's domination of the Indian economy was based on its private army."
13
"As an active member of the Air Force, Army and Mine Warfare Caucuses, I meet with enlisted personnel and officers on a regular basis to learn more about their needs, both on the job and with their families."
13
"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."
13
"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."
13
"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."
12
"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."
12
"I'm convinced that the infantry is the group in the army which gives more and gets less than anybody else."
Army,
12
"We need a defense budget that's big enough to sustain an increase in the size of the Army."
11
"We're in danger of breaking our army and preventing our national leaders from having the flexibility to confront not just Iraq and Afghanistan, but crises around the globe."
11
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