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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)

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