Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexander Hamilton

If circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude, that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens little if at all inferior to them in discipline and

I considered the difficulty of crossing a ford with an Army of 6 or 7 Thousand Men, Cannon, Horses, Wagons, Cattle /ca /ca, the right disposition of the whole / detaching a respectable force to a distance of 22 Miles.

I call upon the Mehdi Army to be calm because anything else will not be in the Iraqi people's interests,

Combining the great things that AKO has done in the past with the net-centric future that Army modularity will provide -- this is a great opportunity for the Army,

Igor Ivanov

Carrying out this plan allows not only for reinforcing KLA (Kosovo Liberation Army) detachments, but also for carrying out a ground operation. NATO is currently preparing for such an operation,

J. R. R. Tolkien

Here you find us sitting on a field of victory, amid the plunder of armies, and you wonder how we came by a few well-earned comforts!

Isaac Asimov

I stand four-square for reason, and object to what seems to me to be irrationality, whatever the source. If you are on my side in this, I must warn you that the army of the night has the advantage of overwhelming numbers, and, by its very nature, is immune to reason, so that it is entirely unlikely that you and I can win out. We will always remain a tiny and probably hopeless minority, but let us never tire of presenting our view, and of fighting the good fight for the right.

Isaac Asimov

Tens of millions of Americans who neither know or understand the actual arguments for, or even against, evolution, march in the Army of the Night with their Bibles held high

Immanuel Kant

Standing armies shall in time be totally abolished.

Channel 6 is a wonderful tool, and I wanted to transform it to rein-force the command message and what the Army is doing.

Honestly I've already had two calls from the recruiting battalion - 'Hey we know you guys are doing the fly over and we've got some questions about getting guys into the flight program can you help us out'. I'm supposed to talk to one of the kids next week to try and get him to go Army aviation.

Mike Lupica

A family of three had become, in Michael Arroyo's young mind, an army of two.

Joseph Addison

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.

Josefina Vazquez Mota

One of the hardest questions I have been asked is How will you manage the army if you are having menstrual cramps? I have also been asked if I will have the courage to face criminals. My answer is that courage is not a matter of gender.

Joschka Fischer

Transforming the European Union into a single State with one army, one constitution and one foreign policy is the critical challenge of the age

Joni Mitchell

If you see yourself as a kingly type, then you need your serfs and your army and someone around you.

Jimmy Carter

When combined, the small individual contributors of caring, friendship, forgiveness, and love, each of us different from our next-door neighbors, can form a phalanx, an army, with great capability.

Mahatma Gandhi

The builders of the British Indian Empire have patiently built its four pillars-the European interests, the army, the Indian princes and the communal divisions.

James Surowiecki

If army ants are wandering around and they get lost, they start to follow a simple rule:Just do what the ant in front of you does. The ants eventually end up in a circle. There's this famous example of one that was 1,200 feet long and lasted for two days; the ants just kept marching around and around in a circle until they died.

James Madison

An armed and trained militia is the firmest bulwark of republics - that without standing armies their liberty can never be in danger, nor with large ones safe...

James Madison

A standing army is one of the greatest mischief that can possibly happen.

Zhang Jun

All the money came from his savings before he joined the army.

Albert Speer

All sensible Army people turned gas warfare down as being utterly insane since, in view of your superiority in the air, it would not be long before it would bring the most terrible catastrophe upon German cities, which were completely unprotected.

And he commanded the most mighty men that were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace.

And Asa had an army of men that bare targets and spears, out of Judah three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bare shields and drew bows, two hundred and fourscore thousand: all these were mighty men of valour.

Jane Goodall

And can I do that alone? No. So there is a whole army of youth that can do it. So I suppose my mission is to reach as many of those young people as I can through my own efforts.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.

Henry Selick

I feel I'm just meant to do stop-motion. Live-action is much more glamorous to some, but it's basically a whole army of people focused on one thing.

Hideki Tojo

On October 18, 1941, I suddenly received a mandate from His Majesty to form a new cabinet. This was completely unexpected, and when I was summoned to the Imperial Palace I thought I would be questioned on the army's point of view

Hideo Kojima

Hollywood continues to present the U.S. Army as being the good guys, always defeating the aliens or foreigners.

Hilaire Belloc

Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight. But roaring Bill, who killed him, thought it right.

Henry Ward Beecher

Words are but the bannerets of a great army, a few bits of waving color here and there; thoughts are the main body of the footman that march unseen below.

Henry Ward Beecher

There is an army of waiters in this world.