Famous Quotes & Sayings

George S. Patton

Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man.

George S. Patton

Always do everything you ask of those you command.

George S. Patton

A good battle plan that you act on today can be better than a perfect one tomorrow.

George S. Patton

The more I see of Arabs the less I think of them. By having studied them a good deal I have found out the trouble. They are the mixture of all the bad races on earth, and they get worse from west to east, because the eastern ones have had more crosses.

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.

George Washington

The Army (considering the irritable state it is in, its suffering and composition) is a dangerous instrument to play with.

George Washington

Every action in company ought to be with some sign of respect to those present.

George Washington

One of George Washington's main concerns was to make sure that his soldiers had adequate supplies of meat: A part of the army has been a week without any kind of flesh, and the rest three or four days. Naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their suffering to a general mutiny and dispersion.

George Washington

The Army, as usual, are without pay; and a great part of the soldiery without shirts; and though the patience of them is equally threadbare, the States seem perfectly indifferent to their cries.

George Washington

Discipline is the soul of an army.

George Washington

They (the Jews) work more effectively against us, than the enemy's armies. They are a hundred times more dangerous to our liberties and the great cause we are engaged in... It is much to be lamented that each state, long ago, has not hunted them down as pest to society and the greatest enemies we have to the happiness of America.

George Meredith

Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank, The army of unalterable law.

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.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.

George Jackson

But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for destruction, we have been transformed into an implacable army of liberation

Christine Lavin

I've learned that when someone does something very kind and refuses payment, giving them an engraved Swiss Army knife is never refused!

George W. Bush

I don't know why you're talking about Sweden. They're the neutral one. They don't have an army.

George W. Bush

There are limits to the smiles and scowls of diplomacy. Armies and missiles are not stopped by stiff notes of condemnation. They are held in check by strength and purpose and the promise of swift punishment.

George W. Bush

Today, the government of a free Afghanistan is fighting terror, Pakistan is capturing terrorist leaders, Saudi Arabia is making raids and arrests, Libya is dismantling its weapons programs, the army of a free Iraq is fighting for freedom, and more than three-quarters of al-Qaida's key members and associates have been detained or killed. We have led, many have joined, and America and the world are safer.

George W. Bush

It's the Afghan national army that went into Najaf and did the work there.

George W. Bush

We don't need mass armies anymore. We replace it with more effective equipment.

George W. Bush

The all-volunteer army works. It works particularly when we pay our troops well.

Jean Cocteau

Catastrophe, riots, factories blowing up, armies in flight, flood - the ear can detect a whole apocalypse in the starry night of the human body.

George Carlin

The US Army has announced that although it is true they performed mind-destroying drug tests on hundreds of soldiers in the 1960s, none of the victims have been promoted beyond the rank of lieutenant colonel.

George F. Kennan

The Red Army... swept the native population clean in a manner that has no parallel since the days of the Asiatic hordes.

Francis Ford Coppola

I don't go on set with an army of people because the most expensive elements of a movie production are the plane tickets, the hotel rooms, food and gasoline. If you're willing to discover new colleagues in the place that you are, you can save a ton of money.

Francine Prose

You can assume that if a writer's work has survived for centuries, there are reasons why this is so, explanations that have nothing to do with a conspiracy of academics plotting to resuscitate a zombie army of dead white males.

Francis Bacon

Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil saith, It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be.

Jiang Zemin

The People's Liberation Army should play the role of shock troops, overcoming fatigue and sharpening vigilance to make new contributions.

Grover Cleveland

If it takes the entire army and navy to deliver a postal card in Chicago, that card will be delivered.