Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ayn Rand

The only proper functions of a government are: the police, to protect you from criminals; the army, to protect you from foreign invaders; and the courts, to protect your property and contracts from breach or fraud by others, and to settle disputes by rational rules, according to objective law.

Benjamin Banneker

Were there no uniforms, there would probably be no armies.

Benito Mussolini

The mass, whether it be a crowd or an army, is vile.

Benjamin Disraeli

The noble Lord (Stanley) was the Prince Rupert to the Parliamentary army--his valour did not always serve his own cause.

A prolonged shut down of spare parts production potentially endangers Army readiness. There's no way Sikorsky can maintain a high rate of production without the Teamsters on the line.

As directed by the US Army Corps of Engineers, KBR is assisting the Iraqi oil workers in the operation of their facilities.

Our experience over seven or eight years has been that when customers start using virtualization, they have a preliminary notion of what virtualization is. But once they get in and start using it, they see it's like a Swiss Army knife, and they can use it in many different ways.

Often quoted in forms that correspond only loosely to Hugo's original words, for example: No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come. An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of a revelation.

Army reports and Army information, where the Army was looking into allegations and sorting out the situation about detainee mistreatment.

Marty Turco

Army and the organization went out on a limb. Even though we haven't accomplished our goals in recent years, it's a great feeling about the confidence and belief they have in me.

drug use is certainly part of life in the Army.

Earlier this year, our Army Center for Military History did a search and found nothing in the official records that substantiates the claims that U.S. Army soldiers perpetrated such massacres,

First reports from the army only mentioned a hand grenade explosion, but our monitors found while in the hospital that they had been shot behind the ears execution style.

First, we created a map and driving guide of Braddock's Road, which follows the route that his army took from Fort Necessity to Braddock. We published 10,000 of these maps and distributed most of them through Laurel Highlands Visitors Bureau sites, county welcome sites, and through the Westmoreland County Federated Library System.

There's so much spin in these numbers. A lot of facts get disguised. . . . Total manpower is meaningless. The army is the key force in direct combat.

Salvation Army ... they've done a great job there.

E. P. Thompson

As the war in Iraq drags on, the Army is accumulating a collection of problems that cumulatively could call into question the viability of an all-volunteer force.

At some point the army is going to react and then the LTTE will retaliate. They have set in motion a process. At some point the bubble is bound to burst and then we do not know what will happen.

At this point, I'm not sure if I'm going to want to make the army a career. I'm just excited and honored to have been accepted. It's a great opportunity for me and a privilege.

At the very least we have one more. We left our canteen down in Mississippi for another Salvation Army group to use, and we'll have to take another shift to get it back,

did not include the recruitment of the children, and when we were filming, in the scene where the children are lying down on top of the roofs, I asked, 'Oscar, why are they on the roofs?' and he said, 'Because the army was coming to take them away,' and he hadn't included that in the script because for him it wasn't important, it was everyday life.

Winston Churchill

Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash.

Criminals do that, ... The Red Cross doesn't do that, the Salvation Army doesn't do that.

Hu Jintao

The whole Army should earnestly learn from them,

John Jackson

The universe is going to become a de facto Swiss Army Knife.

Claudia Kennedy

This army is the best prepared and the most ready we've ever had,

Dean McAmmond

They showed us quite a bit of stuff ... the insides of the Army and what's going on all around the world - in Iraq. Having seen their side of it, there's so much more going on than what you see on the news. It was pretty educational for us.

They've built a little over 30 schools, they're working with the coalition training the Iraqi army, they're doing border security, they're doing a little bit of everything. There's just a myriad of different tasks they're doing over there.

The Yugoslavs thought that they could wipe out the Kosovo Liberation Army in five to seven days. They have not succeeded in doing that,

The Yugoslav army will ... give its unconditional support to the state institutions and their legally elected representatives, from the lowest officials to the president of the republic,

The Yugoslav army and special police seem to be trying harder than ever to capture the remaining Kosovo Liberation Army strongholds and secure their lines of communication.

They still want to rule us and they think we are not their equals. They want the Kurds to be farmers, the Shiites to be civil servants and lower-ranking army soldiers and policemen, while they rule.

Phil Hartman

A master sergeant in the Army is in danger of losing his lavish lifestyle when a Pentagon official threatens to close Fort Baxter,