Armies Quotes
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The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home. (Quote by - David Herbert Lawrence)
A handful of men, inured to war, proceed to certain victory, while on the contrary, numerous armies of raw and undisciplined troops are but multitudes of men dragged to the slaughter. (Quote by - Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus)
So long as large armies go to battle, so long will the air arm remain their spearhead. (Quote by - Cyril Falls)
Armies are not only for offensives. (Quote by - Bashar al-Assad)
Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
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. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love. Man has conquered whole nations, but all his armies could not conquer love. Man has chained and fettered the spirit, but he has been utterly helpless before love. Thus love has the magic power to make of a beggar a king. (Quote by - Emma Goldman)
The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight. (Quote by - A. J. P. Taylor)
The armies, the difference of all of those armies that had been fighting each other and the Taliban took advantage of that to rule over the whole country. (Quote by - Bulent Ecevit)
Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence. (Quote by - Dora Russell)
By fighting a limited, defensive war, America permitted the enemy to endlessly re-supply their field armies. (Quote by - Nguyen Cao Ky)
I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force. (Quote by - Lech Walesa)
May the United Nations ever be vigilant and potent to defeat the swallowing up of any nation, at any time, by any means-by armies with banners, by force or by fraud, by tricks or by midnight treachery. (Quote by - Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.)
They called themselves an army. They were planning on recruiting more armies. They were planning on splitting up and forming smaller cells and going into different areas, recruiting more members and just growing until they had started a full scale war in this country. (Quote by - Patty Hearst)
We often say that we fear no invasion from the south, but the armies of the south have already crossed the border - American enterprise, American capital is taking rapid possession of our mines and our water power, our oil areas and our timber limits. (Quote by - Sara Jeannette Duncan)
Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide. (Quote by - Henri Barbusse)
This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war. (Quote by - William Tecumseh Sherman)
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)
Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)
It's with them that we have constituted a liberation front and brought our logistic support to armies to help their countries come out of colonialism and establish a national internal regime. (Quote by - Ahmed Ben Bella)
Now when the two armies met, many and fierce were the combats waged between them, and blows were given and received, and swords flashed and showers of arrows descended on all sides. (Quote by - Ferdowsi)
Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations. (Quote by - Kofi Annan)
We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind. (Quote by - H. G. Wells)
Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh ... to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies. (Quote by - Charles Horton Cooley)
Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)
The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute. (Quote by - Rebecca H. Davis)
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)
We are not intimidated by the size of the armies, or the type of hardware the US has brought. (Quote by - Saddam Hussein)
That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life. (Quote by - Amelia Barr)
God is on everyone's side... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies. (Quote by - Jean Anouilh)
National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane. (Quote by - J. F. C. Fuller)
Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen mounted Spaniards to defeat Indian armies numbering in the thousands. (Quote by - Jared Diamond)
Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood. (Quote by - Gloria Steinem)
The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without even having to fight them. (Quote by - Sun Tzu)
Soldiers of Israel, we have no aims of conquest. Our purpose is to bring to naught the attempts of the Arab armies to conquer our land. (Quote by - Moshe Dayan)
The sense of war, the extraordinary bravery of the Allied armies, the numbers, the losses, the real suffering that disappears in time and commemorative oratory, are not marked out in any red guidebook of the emotions, but they are present if you look. (Quote by - John Vinocur)
In the case of the armies at Fredericksburg it would have been, to say the least, very hazardous to give counter-attack, the Federal position being about as strong as ours from which we had driven them back. (Quote by - James Longstreet)
For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
History shows that there are no invincible armies. (Quote by - Joseph Stalin)
The first condition of success for the League of Nations is, therefore, a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of America and France and Italy that there will be no competitive building up of fleets or armies between them. (Quote by - Arthur Henderson)
