Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terry Labonte

We live in a great country, and one reason is because of the armed forces. It is nice for us to be able to come here and in a very small way say thank you.

David McCullough

When I read that the British army had landed thirty-two thousand troops - and I had realized, not very long before, that Philadelphia only had thirty thousand people in it - it practically lifted me out of my chair." ()

We could offer our services through our various airlines. We have our armed forces personnel. We could offer to send planes to bring people here if we so desire -- it's not that much,

John Bolton

We do not support measures that would constrain legal trade and legal manufacturing of small arms and light weapons.

Nikki Haley

Boeing started a new line for their 787 Dreamliner, creating 1,000 new jobs in South Carolina, giving our state a shot in the arm when we truly needed it.

Bruce Bochy

Brian never had any arm trouble. He made every start the whole time he was here. I don't remember him having any soreness.

Jimmy Carter

When combined, the small individual contributors of caring, friendship, forgiveness, and love, each of us different from our next-door neighbors, can form a phalanx, an army, with great capability.

Jacques Chirac

The light of the writer and the dramatist who, by the power of the pen, armed solely with courage and his faith in mankind and truth, has nurtured the hopes of the oppressed who were denied democracy,

Jesse Jackson

The long arm of justice reaches neither for the political left nor the political right, but for the moral center, ... America's dream team of the Democratic Party.

Malcolm X

If, if a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood. But if you - if you hold a gun on him and make him embrace me and pretend to be friendly or brotherly toward me, then that's not brotherhood, that's hypocrisy.

Mahatma Gandhi

The builders of the British Indian Empire have patiently built its four pillars-the European interests, the army, the Indian princes and the communal divisions.

James Surowiecki

If army ants are wandering around and they get lost, they start to follow a simple rule:Just do what the ant in front of you does. The ants eventually end up in a circle. There's this famous example of one that was 1,200 feet long and lasted for two days; the ants just kept marching around and around in a circle until they died.

James Patterson

You looove me. (holds out arms) You love me this much.

James Madison

An armed and trained militia is the firmest bulwark of republics - that without standing armies their liberty can never be in danger, nor with large ones safe...

James Madison

A standing army is one of the greatest mischief that can possibly happen.

James Madison

Armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.

James Madison

A government resting on the minority is an aristocracy, not a Republic, and could not be safe with a numerical and physical force against it, without a standing army, an enslaved press and a disarmed populace.

James Lee

As a revolutionary people, we Americans won a probable victory over the best and biggest army in the world because we learned to fight from the Indians. You can do a lot of damage with a Kentucky rifle from behind a tree. You don't put on a peaked hat and a red coat and white leggings and crossed white bandoleers with a big silver buckle in the center of the X and march uphill into a line of Howitzers loaded with chain and chopped horseshoes.

John Dos Passos

The Gospel of the army is cunning, as of all other human activities. The wisdom of the snake under the meekness of the sheep is what wins out. The first Commandment is--never let them get anything on you-- The second: Graft--get privileges others haven't got--worm yourself into confidence The Third--seem neat and prosperous--as if you had money in the bank

John Dos Passos

It's almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you

John Michael Higgins

I'm a Navy brat. You find that a lot of stage actors are Army or Navy brats, because they have the ability to make a big impression, make friends, and then leave just a few months later.

John Candy

I thought to myself, Join the army. It's free. So I figured while I'm here I'll lose a few pounds.

John Belushi

Back in Chicago, all we cared about was rock 'n' roll and staying out of the army.

John Bachman

The president said nothing about the views of government in regard to the possibility of Carolinas seceding. This however was frequently spoken of by other statesmen at the North. I think they were unanimous in this, that no army would be sent here.

Joe Haldeman

A good sign that an army has been around too long is that it starts getting top-heavy with officers.

Joan Rivers

She's so hairy - when she lifted up her arm I thought it was Tina Turner in her armpit.

Sergei Ivanov

The destruction of the 1972 ABM Treaty will result in the annihilation of the whole structure of strategic stability and create prerequisites for a new arms race including one in outer space,

The disappointing fourth-quarter results indicate to us that, like its peers, Beckman Coulter faces a tougher environment and management does not yet have its arms around the one-offs that have been negatively impacting its margins.

Zhang Jun

All the money came from his savings before he joined the army.

Albert Speer

All sensible Army people turned gas warfare down as being utterly insane since, in view of your superiority in the air, it would not be long before it would bring the most terrible catastrophe upon German cities, which were completely unprotected.

And he commanded the most mighty men that were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace.

And Asa had an army of men that bare targets and spears, out of Judah three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bare shields and drew bows, two hundred and fourscore thousand: all these were mighty men of valour.

Jane Goodall

And can I do that alone? No. So there is a whole army of youth that can do it. So I suppose my mission is to reach as many of those young people as I can through my own efforts.