Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

We are still at some distance from full compliance. There is clear evidence that many army and special units that are normally based outside Kosovo are still deployed in Kosovo.

Paul Wolfowitz

We want Army weapons systems that are more mobile, lethal and deployable,

Mark Wilson

We have experienced all too often that our wounded troops suffering from severe head trauma have had to be flown to hospitals such as Brook Army Medical Center in Texas to receive specialized head and brain trauma treatment. We are proposing the privately funded construction and donation of a specialized brain trauma unit on the west coast at Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton, California. The Freedom Is Not Free Foundation has garnered massive support from the civilian and corporate communities for such a site and we will be presenting our proposal for a Private Sector/Government funded partnership to make sure this project comes to fruition.

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 are very calm, collected, with business as usual. Let the army do what it has to do, and we'll do what we need to do.

We're very highly motivated to get back up and running ASAP, ... The Army needs these vehicles.

Rick Warren

You dont judge the strength of an army by how many soldiers sit and eat in the mess hall, but by how they perform on the front line. Likewise a churchs strength is not seen in how many show up, but in how many serve in the ministry.

What seems most likely is that Hood and his staff, weary of mind, exhausted in body and confident the Federal army was still trapped, simply went to sleep.

You have an infrastructure here that provides the Army with the organization. It helps us develop our doctrine, our tactics, techniques and procedures. (It) looks at our organization, helps us develop leaders -- all those ingredients that go into making your Army and my Army the best in the world,

You have to wonder where the Army thinks it's going after Iraq.

George Washington

with humanity, and let them have no reason to complain of our copying the brutal example of the British army in their treatment of our unfortunate brethren.

You cannot exploit the civilian population for the army's military needs, and you cannot force them to collaborate with the army, ... Based on this principle, we rule it illegal to use civilians as human shields, and we also rule it illegal to use civilians to pass military warnings from the army to those the army wants to arrest.

You cannot defeat Islamic State with airstrikes only. It's necessary to cooperate with ground troops, and the Syrian army is the most efficient and powerful ground force to fight the Islamic State.

Robin Cook

to make sure that we do make it very difficult for the Yugoslav army to support the repression in Kosovo and that we increase the cost of Milosevic of doing that.

Kevin J. Anderson

We already have some great athletes playing here, but now it's opening people's eyes and now they are considering and looking at Army basketball.

The reason I say that is that I have zero trust for what (Yugoslav President Slobodan) Milosevic or his army might try to do, ... So I think they're putting themselves, from an operational perspective, at great risk in doing this.

There is no supervision at all, and the army just stews in its own juice.

John Buford

There is so much apathy... that I wish to be relieved from the Army of the Potomac.

It was unexpected. Yes, I did 20 years in the Army, but I never thought he would follow in my footsteps.

It was all rough country. This is kind of funny, but I just knew in the back of my mind when they (the Army Corps) completed the dam, my ring would probably be at the bottom of the lake someday.

The seed corn isn't going into the Army.

The stand up of the army is doing very, very well. The police we're more concerned with.

Jyoti Basu

The situation is very grim, and only the army can help us.

John Buford

I sent him word I was a captain in the United States Army and I intend to remain one.

It would have made a difference if he had been elected president. It might have even made a difference if he had given up his title of chief of army staff,

They all watched the Iowa State-Army game on television. They saw what kind of team Army had.

The whole nation is helping and the army is helping, and I think we are feeling very happy with ourselves for having reacted in such a positive manner as a nation, army included,

The work we are doing with the Ministry of Interior and the police is, effectively, building a Shiite army.