Armies Quotes

Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations.

The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute.

We are not intimidated by the size of the armies, or the type of hardware the US has brought.

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labour, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.

In the case of the armies at Fredericksburg it would have been, to say the least, very hazardous to give counter-attack, the Federal position being about as strong as ours from which we had driven them back.

Armies are not only for offensives.

A handful of men, inured to war, proceed to certain victory, while on the contrary, numerous armies of raw and undisciplined troops are but multitudes of men dragged to the slaughter.

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.

You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders, armies don't.

The sense of war, the extraordinary bravery of the Allied armies, the numbers, the losses, the real suffering that disappears in time and commemorative oratory, are not marked out in any red guidebook of the emotions, but they are present if you look.

Planning is really the hallmark of any large military formation, and it's typically a weakness in new formations and new armies.

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

God is on everyone's side... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.

Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.