Army Quotes

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.

It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.

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

I am one of the million or more male residents of the United Kingdom, who a year ago had no special yearning towards military life, but who joined the army after war was declared.

The eventual place the American army should take on the western front was to a large extent influenced by the vital question of communication and supply.

I joined the army as a private. I was offered a rank at that time, but I refused. I preferred to remain a private. First of all, I wasn't taken by ranks, and before I knew it, they put me in the most sensitive positions anyway.

If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army.

My husband is a former Air Force pilot and my son is an active duty Army surgeon, recently returned from Iraq, so my pride in our military is passionate... and personal.

The majority of soldiers and officers of the Soviet Army and the allied armies treated the local population humanely.

The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.

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.

In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer.

There's an army story in me, and I think there's a WWII Brooks film somewhere.

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.

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a runaway, an activist, and a musician. All my life I've been traveling.

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.

My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he saluted, he killed himself.

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.

You know, actually, I went to Yale because I wanted to stay out of the army.

We need a defense budget that's big enough to sustain an increase in the size of the Army.

A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple.

It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty.

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.

I wanted to join the Army the sign said 'Be All That You Can Be', they told me it wasn't enough.

I guess if you're stupid enough to join the army without thinking about getting shot at, then you really are a fool.

The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men.

Anyone who says they don't enjoy the Army is mad - you can spend a week hating it and the next week it could be the best thing in the world and the best job you could ever, ever wish for. It has got so much to offer.

Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.

The army teaches boys to think like men.