Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Hillary Clinton

When an army unit returns from service in Iraq or Afghanistan, it barely gets a breather before it begins training for its next deployment.

Herbert Read

These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body; or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals.

Herbert Hoover

I suppose I could have called in the whole of the Army, but what was the use? All I had to do was call in Main Street itself.

Everett Dirksen

Stronger than all the armies is an idea thats time has come. ... The time has come for equality of opportunity in sharing in government, in education, and in employment. It will not be stayed or denied. It is here!

Ezra Klein

If you look at how the federal government spends our money, it’s an insurance conglomerate protected by a large, standing army.

Erwin Rommel

In Tunisia the Americans had to pay a stiff price for their experience, but it brought rich dividends. Even at that time, the American generals showed themselves to be very advanced in the tactical handling of their forces, although we had to wait until the Patton Army in France to see the most astonishing achievements in mobile warfare.

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.

Georgina Chapman

My great-grandfather was in the army in India, and we have photographs of my family there in full Victorian dress. They're incredibly romantic.

Ignatius of Loyola

Just as the commander of an army pitches his camp, studies the strength and defenses of a fortress, and then attacks it on its weakest side, in like manner, the enemy of our human nature studies from all sides our theological, cardinal, and moral virtues. Wherever he finds us weakest and most in need regarding our eternal salvation, he attacks and tries to take us by storm.

Guy de Maupassant

You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government.

Guy deBord

Looting is a natural response to the unnatural and inhuman society of commodity abundance. It instantly undermines the commodity as such, and it also exposes what the commodity ultimately implies: the army, the police and the other specialized detachments of the state's monopoly of armed violence.