Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vladimir Lenin

Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.

Walid Muallem

Laying siege to enemy-controlled cities allows attacking armies to keep their own casualties low by avoiding urban combat.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

You may depend upon it, religion is, in its essence, the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It will alone gentilize, if unmixed with cant; and I know nothing else that will, alone. Certainly not the army, which is thought to be the grand embellisher of manners.

Ryan Sheckler

I shave my body probably once a week, maybe twice a week on the arms, just to keep it fresh.

Ursula K. Le Guin

What good is music? None ... and that is the point. To the world and its states and armies and factories and Leaders, music says, 'You are irrelevant'; and, arrogant and gentle as a god, to the suffering man it says only, 'Listen.' For being saved is not the point. Music saves nothing. Merciful, uncaring, it denies and breaks down all the shelters, the houses men build for themselves, that they may see the sky.

Vladimir Putin

Not all G8 members take the view that chemical weapons were in fact used by the Syrian Army. Some actually agree with us that there is no proof.

Vladimir Putin

President al-Assad and his army are the only force that actually fights ISIS.

Vladimir Putin

No one except for al-Assad's army is fighting against ISIS or other terrorist organisations in Syria, no one else is fighting them on Syrian territory. Minor airstrikes, including those by the United States aircraft, do not resolve the issue in essence; in fact, they do not resolve it at all.

William Graham Sumner

The lobby is the army of the plutocracy.

Thomas B. Macaulay

There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen.

Thomas Francis Meagher

The prosperity of a nation requires the protection of a senate. Hereafter a national senate may require the protection of a national army.

Horace

He who is always in a hurry to be wealthy and immersed in the study of augmenting his fortune has lost the arms of reason and deserted the post of virtue.

Herman Melville

In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.

Henry David Thoreau

Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government.

Henry David Thoreau

The only government that I recognize--and it matters not how few are at the head of it, or how small its army--is that power thatestablishes justice in the land, never that which establishes injustice.

Henry David Thoreau

I should have liked to come across a large community of pines, which had never been invaded by the lumbering army.

Henry David Thoreau

What is called common sense is excellent in its department, and as invaluable as the virtue of conformity in the army and navy,--for there must be subordination,--but uncommon sense, that sense which is common only to the wisest, is as much more excellent as it is more rare.

Jessica Lynch

I remember the first time I put on the Army uniform. I just felt like a totally different person - I felt proud.

James A. Michener

It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.

Jack Steinberger

I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago.

Franz Halder

The finishing off of the encircled enemy army is to be left to the Luftwaffe.

Jennifer Yuh Nelson

It's like being the general of an army [directing a film]. You send people out to die.

Jeb Bush

A strategy would be how do we mobilize support for the remnants of the Syrian Free Army, and it might require combat troops to inspire an international effort.

Jeaniene Frost

Do you know what happened the last time I loved someone?” Growled against my skin with such tempered violence that my shiver turned into a shudder. I nodded. “No you don’t.” Another lethal growl. “You only know how she died. Let me tell you how she lived— in fear. My actions horrified her, as they horrify you. My enemies exploited her, as they exploit you, so it was more than an advancing army that made her throw herself from our roof. It was me.

George S. Patton

I wonder if I could have been here before as I drive up the Roman road the Theater seems familiar - perhaps I headed a legion up that same white road... I passed a chateau in ruins which I possibly helped escalade in the middle ages. There is no proof nor yet any denial. We were, We are, and we will be.

George S. Patton

When we land against the enemy, don't forget to hit him and hit him hard. When we meet the enemy we will kill him. We will show him no mercy.

George S. Patton

I am the best damn ass-kicker in the whole U.S. Army!

George S. Patton

My men can eat their belts, but my tanks have gotta have gas.

George S. Patton

My men don't surrender. I don't want to hear of any soldier under my command being captured unless he has been hit. Even if you are hit, you can still fight back.

George S. Patton

We entered a synagogue which was packed with the greatest stinking bunch of humanity I have ever seen. Either these Displaced Persons never had any sense of decency or else they lost it all during their period of internment by the Germans.... My personal opinion is that no people could have sunk to the level of degradation these have reached in the short space of four years.

George S. Patton

Let's keep our boots polished, bayonets sharpened, and present a picture of force and strength to the Red Army. This is the only language they understand and respect.

George S. Patton

Remember that the enemy is just as frightened as you are and probably more so. They are not supermen

George S. Patton

Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man.