At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means.
- Gerry Adams
It's a tough case and the first time Reacher needs to recruit somebody to help him out. He uses a woman he knew in the army she's a fascinating character.
- Lee Child
Holly's theory about the army," Sharon explained.
And what is it?" Denise asked, intrigued.
Oh, that fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.
- Cecelia Ahern
It was 1943. The U.S. had already entered World War II, so I decided to join the army.
- Lloyd Alexander
This camp is a forge for the army; it's testing our mettle. Instead of heat and hammer, our trials are cold and hunger. Question is, what are we made of?
- Laurie Halse Anderson
When I was in the Army, the unit I served in, you could never stop. It was a volunteer unit, and there was a fairly high rate of attrition. The people who stayed through are the people who were either great at it or the people who just didn't know how to stop. And I fell into that second category.
- Michael Arad
The way the Army does things is sometimes a little strange.
- Desi Arnaz
Life got in the way -- two years in the army, work, marriage, family responsibilities, the need to earn more and more money, all the muck that bogs us down when we don't have the balls to stand up for ourselves -- but I had never lost my interest in books.
- Paul Auster
It's not getting any better, is it? I don't want my 19-year-old boy going into the army. I love these little kids. They understand how passionate I am.
- Burt Bacharach
The army is the true nobility of our country.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Hey!" Caleb snapped as he realized Nick was about to lock him on the outside with their attackers. He pushed the door open and glared at him. "No man left behind."
Nick scoffed. "This aint' the army, boy. It's every man for himself. Fall behind. Get eaten
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I was in the army, Terri. Special Ops, sent into the most godforsaken places you can imagine, where I did unspeakable things. We weren't exactly sent in to teach our enemies to knit. (Nathan)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I joined the army to avenge the deaths of my family and to survive, but I've come to learn that if I am going to take revenge, in that process I will kill another person whose family will want revenge; then revenge and revenge and revenge will never come to an end..
- Ishmael Beah
I joined the Army in 1965 and served with the 11th Hussars, which I loved. The regiment was so relaxed - a salute was more like a friendly wave.
- Antony Beevor
It was only after five years in the army, when I was having to do a very boring job in a very boring place, that I thought: 'Why not try writing a novel?' partly out of youthful arrogance and partly because there had been a long line of writers in my mother's family.
- Antony Beevor
Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.
- Alexander Graham Bell
When will the others come?
And there is one who will never come. At least we will not see him if he does. But, oh, when I think he will be there--when our Canadian soldiers return there will be a shadow army with them--the army of the fallen. We will not *see* them--but they will be there!
- L M Montgomery
Idea is a software for the army and nation.
- Toba Beta
If the Army helped towards my tuition fees I would then give them four years of my life.
- James Blunt
I guess if you're stupid enough to join the army without thinking about getting shot at, then you really are a fool.
- James Blunt
Like any parents, mine wanted me to have a secure job with a regular wage and career prospects. And the one job my father knew of, that he'd had experience of himself, was the army, so he could help me in that direction.
- James Blunt
When the Chinese Wall was built, where'd the masons go for lunch? When Caesar conquered Gaul, was there not even a cook in the army? When the Armada sank, King Philip wept. Were there no other tears?
- Bertolt Brecht
I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
- Mel Brooks
Grand," I said. "Just grand. I get myself into the army, stand up in battles I have no business in, get nailed in the back by sorcery, accept an impossible assignment to be carried out in the middle of it all, and then, just to top things off, I have to go have a mystical fucking experience. This is just great.
- Steven Brust
Before I could lose my courage, I said, "Don't I get a kiss for luck? It's kind of a tradition, right?"
I figured she would punch me. Instead, she drew her knife and stared at the army marching toward us. "Come back alive, Seaweed Brain. Then, we'll see.
- Rick Riordan
We heard the army before we saw it.
The noise was like a cannon barrage combined with a football stadium crowd- like every Patriots fan in New England was charging us with bazookas.
- Rick Riordan
The law increasing and organizing the military establishment of the United States has been nearly carried into effect, and the Army has been extensively and usefully employed during the past season.
- Martin Van Buren
I thought to myself, Join the army. It's free. So I figured while I'm here I'll lose a few pounds.
- John Candy
Sacramental attachments to a dying a resurrected savior was a common idea in the Roman Empire. The religion of Mithraism, very popular in the army and open only to males, bathed the initiate in the blood of a bull.
- Norman F Cantor
There was no discussion between them; it was as if the bugs had worked out this whole scenario long ago. Temp put on a burst of speed for the end of the bridge, and Tick turned to face down the army of rats alone.
- Suzanne Collins
Since I'm allergic to various things, the army wouldn't accept me during the war, and I got into the Office of War Information, which sent music to Europe.
- Elliott Carter
Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.
- Winston Churchill
An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
- William Tecumseh Sherman
One of the main reasons America should re-elect President Obama is that he is still committed to cooperation. He appointed Republican Secretaries of Defense, the Army and Transportation. He appointed a Vice President who ran against him in 2008.
- William J Clinton
The sergeant is the Army.
- Dwight D Eisenhower
Two new reports indicate that, under Bush, the Army is overstretched and under enormous strain. The National Guard and reserves have been weakened and we are experiencing numerous recruiting problems.
- Jim Clyburn
Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations.
- Sun Tzu
It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.
- Sun Tzu
When one treats people with benevolence, justice, and righteoousness, and reposes confidence in them, the army will be united in mind and all will be happy to serve their leaders'.
- Sun Tzu
Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move.
- Sun Tzu
I had a tremendous horror of going into the Army. That is probably why I went to college for so long.
- Bruce Conner
I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.
- Billy Connolly
Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining army has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure.
- Robert A Cook
The army teaches boys to think like men.
- Elvis Presley
The next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called, GI Blues. I thought I was still in the army.
- Elvis Presley
As the landscape changed from brown to green, the army awakened, and began to tremble with eagerness at the noise of rumors.
- Stephen Crane
Hooray!" said the Chief of the Army. "Let's blow everyone up! Bang-bang! Bang-bang!
- Roald Dahl
With the CGI, suddenly there's a thousand enemies instead of six - the army goes off into the horizon. You don't need that. The audience loses its relationship with the threat on the screen. That's something that's consistently happening and it makes these movies like video games and that's a soulless enterprise. It's all kinetics without emotion.
- Harrison Ford
I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War.
- Larry David
You know, I think the main purpose of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps is to get poor Americans into clean, pressed, unpatched clothes, so rich Americans can stand to look at them.
- Kurt Vonnegut
I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me.
- Sammy Davis Jr
He explained to Atro that he now understood why the army was organized as it was. It was indeed quite necessary. No rational form of organization would serve the purpose. He simply had not understood that the purpose was to enable men with machine guns to kill unarmed men and women easily and in great quantities when told to do so. Only he still could not see where courage, or manliness, or fitness entered in.
- Ursula K Le Guin
I've fallen back on this periodically, although I must say that getting out of the grocery business ranked right up there with getting out of the army as one of the happier experiences of my life.
- David Eddings
Creationist? Well, no, it's not creationist either. The point is that we are probably a bit less top-to-bottom thorough than, say, the Army Corps of Engineers. Well, actually, scratch that. We are probably about exactly as thorough as the Army Corps of Engineers, in that we are intermittently thorough.
- Dave Eggers
The whole point of being in the Army is wanting to get killed, wanting to test yourself to the limits. Now you have to fly 15,000ft above the war zone to avoid getting hit. I don't think there is any point in having wars if that's how you're going to behave. It's pathetic. All this whining!
- Rupert Everett
Now what do you get in the Army? Bad helmets and Basra. Your guns don't work and everyone hates you when you come back.
- Rupert Everett
The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.
- Oded Fehr
to all those unfortunate men who are widowers, I throw the sublime proclamation of Bonaparte to the army of Italy: Soldiers, you are in need of everything; the enemy has it.
- Victor Hugo
But the same thing was true in the army. You slept in a barracks with all kinds of people of every nationality, every trade, every character and quality you can imagine, and that was a good experience.
- Shelby Foote
You know, actually, I went to Yale because I wanted to stay out of the army.
- Richard Foreman
She decided to donate blood to the Red Cross; she wanted to donate a quart a week and her blood would be in the veins of Australians and Fighting French and Chinese, all over the whole world, and it would be as though she were close kin to all of these people. She could hear the army doctors saying that the blood of Frankie Addams was the reddest and the strongest blood that they had ever known.
- Carson Mccullers
If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army.
- Frederick Ii
Well, my father was in the Army and we traveled quite a bit when I was growing up, and I thought that I would like to have a military career, although I was drawn more towards the Navy.
- Marc Garneau
With Yeltsin, the Soviet Union broke apart, the country was totally mismanaged, the constitution was not respected by the regions of Russia. The army, education and health systems collapsed. People in the West quietly applauded, dancing with and around Yeltsin. I conclude therefore that we should not pay too much attention to what the West is saying.
- Mikhail Gorbachev
I felt we really couldn't be separated that much. I'd had a baby, and I was traveling and working alone while he was in the Army. It was very difficult-the phone calls and all of that. I really was very depressed.
- Eydie Gorme
My Mother is Swedish and my Father is Scottish, he played for Charlton in the 1960's and was in the Army, he captained the British forces team. We then moved to S.A. because a lot of players did that at the time.
- Richard Gough
When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship.
- Dick Gregory
The army slew a thousand and showed little pity
The king ordered fealty from the conquered city
The prince charmed its people with words wise and witty
And the queen sat on a couch, looking very pretty
- Shannon Hale
Bein' a friend is a heavy commitment. In a way, even more than a husband or wife.... Friendship to me means more than just somebody to talk to, or run with, or hang with.
Bein' friends is like being soldiers in the army. You live together; you fight together; you die together.
- Ron Hall
Bein friends is like being soldiers in the army. You live together, you fight together; you die together.
- Ron Hall
For me personally, as I said, I want to serve my country. I've done it once, and I'm still in the army, I feel as though I should get the opportunity to do it again.
- Prince Harry
Anyone who says they don't enjoy the Army is mad - you can spend a week hating it and the next week it could be the best thing in the world and the best job you could ever, ever wish for. It has got so much to offer.
- Prince Harry
Tucking my nose into a book makes me completely oblivious to my surroundings. I would have made a terrible spy in the army--the first person to hand me a novel would have been able to shoot my head clean off without me noticing.
- Alyxandra Harvey
We were defined by what we did. What we had to do.
I think this is why guys like football, and why they join the army, because as long as you are playing the game or following orders you do not have to figure out who you really are.
- Pete Hautman
Those who served, and those who continue to serve in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard took an oath to uphold and protect the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic, and we can never forget the importance of their commitment to our Nation.
- Robin Hayes
That's a horrible dream!" Major Sanderson cried. "It's filled with pain and mutilation and death. I'm sure you had it just to spite me. You know, I'm not even sure you belong in the Army, with a disgusting dream like that.
- Joseph Heller
When I went off to the army when I was 17 years old, I believed in America and the rights of freedom. But today I believe my government is lying to the American people and that my president, George Bush, is a criminal.
- Jack Herer
Bush can talk about 100,000 people wanting to go work in the police or in the army. It's because there's nothing else for them to do. They're willing to stand in line to get bombed because they want to take care of their family.
- Seymour Hersh
Never try to take a fortified hill, especially if the Army on top is bigger than you are.
- William Reddington Hewlett
My New Year's Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle may they never give me peace. (New Year's Eve, 1947)
- Patricia Highsmith
There was a nuisance in the service known as the army correspondent.
- Daniel H Hill
In spite of certain distressing but isolated occurrences in the last battle, I certainly hoped that the Army would be in a position to continue to hold out.
- Paul Von Hindenburg
Okay, Charlie, you can do this, all you have to do is convince a career military man that your son shouldn't join the Army. That shouldn't be too hard, right?
- Tamara Hoffa
So when I told my parents I wanted to go into acting because I was flunking out of my first year of junior college, they were relieved that I had picked something other than joining the army. But I can't imagine how they had high hopes for me.
- Dustin Hoffman
Most people today couldn't tell a bombardier from a brigadier - said during a lecture in aid of the Army Benevolent Fund in 2009
- Richard Holmes
My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.
- Barry Humphries
At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets.
- Tahar Ben Jelloun
It is tragic that the Fuehrer should have the whole nation behind him with the single exception of the Army generals. In my opinion it is only by action that they can now atone for their faults of lack of character and discipline.
- Alfred Jodl
I got out of the Army - in my world - I came to New York, for instance, when the civil rights movement was just beginning, and that created a certain energy, a certain rumble, a certain impetus for black actors.
- James Earl Jones
When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied acting, which involved dance and fencing and speech classes and history of theater, all that.
- James Earl Jones
The Army might screw you and your girlfriend might dump you and the enemy might kill you, but the shared commitment to safeguard one another's lives is unnegotiable and only deepens with time. The willingness to die for another person is a form of love that even religions fail to inspire, and the experience of it changes a person profoundly.
- Sebastian Junger
The army consists of the first infantry division and eight million replacements.
- Sebastian Junger
The Army damages itself when it doesn't live up to its own values.
- Claudia Kennedy
The army is under orders to defend every place.
- Helmut Kohl
People were very affected by the war. But it didn't mean you stopped painting unless you were called into the Army; then you just couldn't paint. But otherwise one continued.
- Lee Krasner
But this show, this shower of fire and ice and blood, reminded him yet again that God is faithful. He keeps his promises. While our ways are not his ways and we can never understand him this side of heaven, Rayford was assured again that he was on the side of the army that had already won this war.
- Tim Lahaye
The army leaves me time to think, and saves me from the battle of life.
- D H Lawrence
The Army has carried the American ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.
- Tom Lehrer
My friendship you shall have, leanred Man," piped Reepicheep. "And any Dwarf--or Giant---in the army who does not give you good language shall have my sword to reckon with.
- C S Lewis
I wanted to join the Army the sign said 'Be All That You Can Be', they told me it wasn't enough.
- Jay London
I was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the youngest of four girls, including my oldest sister, Lisa, who has special needs. My mom was a special education teacher, and my dad worked on the Army base. We weren't wealthy, but we were determined to succeed.
- Eva Longoria
In a very short time the army of Northern Virginia was face to face with the Army of the Potomac.
- James Longstreet
The Army was my bread and butter.
- Brian Lumley
Now, when I was in the Army, writing was my hobby.
- Brian Lumley
If, like Harry Keogh, I could talk to the dead - God, there are an awful lot of people I would like to speak to! Not least my father. Being in the army for 22 years, I didn't see enough of him, and I know there are a great many things I could have learned from him.
- Brian Lumley
I remember the first time I put on the Army uniform. I just felt like a totally different person - I felt proud.
- Jessica Lynch
I am one of the million or more male residents of the United Kingdom, who a year ago had no special yearning towards military life, but who joined the army after war was declared.
- Patrick Macgill
I watch him walk away with the only family he has left and I know why Adam joined the army.
I know why he suffered through being Warner's whipping boy. I know why he dealt with the horrifying reality of war, why he was so desparate to run away, so ready to run way as soon as possible. Why he's so determined to fight back.
He's fighting for so much more than himself.
- Tahereh Mafi
At the end of the day, though, the band members have to be strong. It's down to the individuals in the unit. Listen to me, I'm talking like I'm in the army and this is my squadron.
- Shirley Manson
I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.
- Mickey Mantle
In life I've always considered myself statistically challenged. I married my high school sweetheart and then he joined the Army. Lucky for me, love has nothing to do with statistics.
- Shawn Kirsten Maravel
The moment you enlist in the army of God, you personally become a target. You need to remember that if you're living for and walking with Jesus Christ, the powers of darkness are aligned against you.
- Walter Martin
It is not advantageous for Russia in its present state to fight against Chechnya. The army is a mess. It must be made combat ready. That will take time. Russia has a lot of economic, social and political problems much more important than Chechnya.
- Aslan Maskhadov
I would sooner read the catalogue of the Army and Navy Stores or Bradshaw's Guide than nothing at all, and indeed I have spent many delightful hours over both these works.
- W Somerset Maugham
I'm convinced that the infantry is the group in the army which gives more and gets less than anybody else.
- Bill Mauldin
I would like to thank the people who encouraged me to draw army cartoons at a time when the gag man's conception of the army was one of mean ole sergeants and jeeps which jump over mountains.
- Bill Mauldin
When this sad war is over we will all return to our homes, and feel that we can ask no higher honor than the proud consciousness that we belonged to the Army of the Potomac.
- George B Mcclellan
My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It's about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. It's about Washington and the army and the war. It's the nadir, the low point of the United States of America.
- David Mccullough
We also very importantly recommend continued growth in the Army and the Marine Corps end strength.
- John M Mchugh
Bring the army of the faithful through.
- George Meredith
The army did what Milosevic's regime asked of it, which was to create a 'Greater Serbia'.
- Stjepan Mesic
How long was I in the army? Five foot eleven.
- Spike Milligan
I spent two years in the Army. And my older brother, who was also a great positive influence on me, encouraged me to think about law school, and I said - well, I didn't have any money.
- George J Mitchell
I became a Communist because I fell in love with a man who was a Red and entered the Army to take care of the Fascists, and I knew it would please him if I became one.
- Karen Morley
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.
- Josefina Vazquez Mota
In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer.
- Louis Mumford
My Dad was from Liverpool, and he picked it up in the army. He'd often come out with this stuff.
- Mike Myers
The army is always the same. The sun and the moon change. The army knows no seasons.
- Frank S Nugent
The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one's country
- George S Patton
That's my advice to all homosexuals, whether they're in the Boy Scouts, or in the Army or in high school: Shut up, don't tell anybody what you do, your life will be a lot easier.
- Bill Oreilly
I even tried to join the army, but they wouldn't have me. The bloke in the uniform took one look at my ugly mug and said, 'Sorry, we want subjects, not objects'.
- Ozzy Osbourne
The highly skilled workers at Lima have enabled the plant to grow far beyond its original mission, now providing a wide variety of cutting-edge military vehicles and equipment to the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps.
- Michael Oxley
It won't be a question of how well-trained or well-equipped the army is but one of the authority it serves.
- Adnan Pachachi
My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn't know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
- Al Pacino
The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.
- Orhan Pamuk
It's almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you.
- John Dos Passos
I joined the army as a private. I was offered a rank at that time, but I refused. I preferred to remain a private. First of all, I wasn't taken by ranks, and before I knew it, they put me in the most sensitive positions anyway.
- Shimon Peres
I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.
- Colin Powell
These scars on my body," Alexander declared, "were got for you, my brothers. Every wound, as you see, is in the front. Let that man stand forth from your ranks who has bled more than I, or endured more than I for your sake. Show him to me, and I will yield to your weariness and go home." Not a man came forward. Instead, a great cheer arose from the army. The men begged their king to forgive them for their want of spirit and pleaded with him only to lead them forward.
- Steven Pressfield
The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. The only proper functions of a government are: the police, to protect you from criminals; the army, to protect you from foreign invaders; and the courts, to protect your property and contracts from breach or fraud by others, to settle disputes by rational rules, according to objective law. (John Galt)
- Ayn Rand
When we gaze at the magnificence of an ancient monument and ascribe its achievement to one man, we are guilty of spiritual embezzlement. We forget the army of craftsmen, unknown and unsung, who preceded him in the darkness of the ages, who toiled humbly - all heroism is humble - each contributing his small share to the common treasure of his time. A great building is not the private invention of some genius or other. It is merely a condensation of the spirit of a people.
- Ayn Rand
I loved the Army as an institution and loathed every single thing it required me to do.
- Simon Raven
We pay for the navy, and we have no commerce for the navy to protect; we pay for the army, and we loathe and execrate the work upon which it has been engaged.
- John Edward Redmond
With this announcement today, the Army has made it clear what we have known all along - that Fort Riley is truly the crown jewel of the United States Army.
- Jim Ryun
I never joined the army for patriotic reasons.
- Isaac Rosenberg
He once told Allie and I that if he'd had to shoot anybody, he wouldn't've known which direction to shoot in. He said the Army was practically as full of bastards as the Nazis were.
- J D Salinger
I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army.
- John Scalzi
So the whole of war, when you look at it is probably run by professional soldiers, and the rest of them are just recruits, or people who are just forced to join the army.
- Gerald Scarfe
I hated leaving a hole in the smoking world, and so I recruited someone to take my place. People have given me a lot of grief, but I'm pretty sure that after high school, this girl would have started anyway, especially if she chose the army over community college.
- David Sedaris
I am in suspense as to the probable or improbability of being called into the Army, a station I would prefer to any other that of being in arms to defend an injured and grossly insulted country.
- John Sevier
Just as the 99% of Soviet citizens who supported the Soviet regime in 1985 was no indication of what the people inside the USSR really thought, the army of true believers that we think we see in the Arab world is an illusion.
- Natan Sharansky
Curious people who have become accustomed to think that one cannot sustain the moral of the army without giving it the freedom to shed blood from time to time.
- Moshe Sharett
The Army War College has been a tradition in central Pennsylvania for years.
- Bill Shuster
The crises in North Korea, Iran, the Middle East, show how quickly things can change and how they can go wrong. We must be prepared. And right now the Army is not.
- Ike Skelton
During the 2000 election, the current administration told our military, help is on the way. That is clearly not the case. The administration has failed to request the funds needed for the defense of this Nation. We must give the Army what it needs.
- Ike Skelton
Just look at the Old Testament. They didn't go out with the army first. They sent the musicians out.
- Michael W Smith
I wish the army had taught us how to navigate feelings as easily as they did a starless night sky.
- Roy L Smith
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.
- Jack Steinberger
If you're so smart, let's see you get out of the Army.
- Casey Stengel
I grew up all over the world. My father was in the army and was posted to a new place every two and a half years. I have no geographical roots.
- Juliet Stevenson
It seems as if everybody in the country was getting impatient to get his or her particular soldier out of the Army and to upset the carefully arranged system of points for retirement which we had arranged with the approval of the Army itself.
- Henry L Stimson
In this respect I expressed my doubts about using the Corps directly on the South coast, to form a bridgehead for the Army - as the area immediately behind the coast was now covered with obstacles. These doubts were accepted by Hitler.
- Kurt Student
But the Air Force was sort of a bastard child of the Army, much like the Marines with the Navy. Everything had to be done over by the Army after it had already been done by the Air Corps, a mess.
- Stuart Symington
My father-in-law was once Chairman of Military Affairs in the Senate, the latter part of the Wilson Administrations. He knew a lot about and was fond of the Army.
- Stuart Symington
We need a defense budget that's big enough to sustain an increase in the size of the Army.
- James Talent
Difficulty of subsistence made the invaders reduce the numbers of the army to a point at which it might live on the country during the prosecution of the war.
- Thucydides
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.
- Hideki Tojo
The new Congress needs to move quickly to strengthen the Army and Marines - not to send more troops to Iraq - but to rebuild our capacity to meet national security threats globally.
- Mark Udall
Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.
- Bill Vaughan
The people who were against the Vietnam War thought I was attacking the Army. The guys in the Army thought I was representing their experiences. I was on both sides, and I survived.
- Mort Walker
I took Beetle home thinking that after the Korean War was over, I would have to take him out of the Army. I thought, well, what am I going to do with him?
- Mort Walker
I'd come out of the army after five years as a medic. I was a medical administrator and we ran hospitals, and I was a Captain in the army at the end, in 1945.
- Eli Wallach
If they are really persuaded that the army is annually established by me, that I have the sole disposal of posts and honours, that I employ this power in the destruction of liberty and the diminution of commerce, let me awaken them from their delusion.
- Robert Walpole
I owe everything to the army.
- Norman Wisdom
I've been extremely lucky having been in the army when I was a boy of fourteen.
- Norman Wisdom
My whole life experience feeds into my writing. I think that must be true for every writer. Clearly the Army and combat were major influences; just the same, you need to understand that many of the writers we have now couldn't load a revolver.
- Gene Wolfe
Length of service: one year or duration of war. Duration of war, of course. He didn't want to spend a whole year in the army.
- Louisa Young
My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he saluted, he killed himself.
- Henny Youngman
- Gerry Adams
It's a tough case and the first time Reacher needs to recruit somebody to help him out. He uses a woman he knew in the army she's a fascinating character.
- Lee Child
Holly's theory about the army," Sharon explained.
And what is it?" Denise asked, intrigued.
Oh, that fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.
- Cecelia Ahern
It was 1943. The U.S. had already entered World War II, so I decided to join the army.
- Lloyd Alexander
This camp is a forge for the army; it's testing our mettle. Instead of heat and hammer, our trials are cold and hunger. Question is, what are we made of?
- Laurie Halse Anderson
When I was in the Army, the unit I served in, you could never stop. It was a volunteer unit, and there was a fairly high rate of attrition. The people who stayed through are the people who were either great at it or the people who just didn't know how to stop. And I fell into that second category.
- Michael Arad
The way the Army does things is sometimes a little strange.
- Desi Arnaz
Life got in the way -- two years in the army, work, marriage, family responsibilities, the need to earn more and more money, all the muck that bogs us down when we don't have the balls to stand up for ourselves -- but I had never lost my interest in books.
- Paul Auster
It's not getting any better, is it? I don't want my 19-year-old boy going into the army. I love these little kids. They understand how passionate I am.
- Burt Bacharach
The army is the true nobility of our country.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Hey!" Caleb snapped as he realized Nick was about to lock him on the outside with their attackers. He pushed the door open and glared at him. "No man left behind."
Nick scoffed. "This aint' the army, boy. It's every man for himself. Fall behind. Get eaten
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I was in the army, Terri. Special Ops, sent into the most godforsaken places you can imagine, where I did unspeakable things. We weren't exactly sent in to teach our enemies to knit. (Nathan)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I joined the army to avenge the deaths of my family and to survive, but I've come to learn that if I am going to take revenge, in that process I will kill another person whose family will want revenge; then revenge and revenge and revenge will never come to an end..
- Ishmael Beah
I joined the Army in 1965 and served with the 11th Hussars, which I loved. The regiment was so relaxed - a salute was more like a friendly wave.
- Antony Beevor
It was only after five years in the army, when I was having to do a very boring job in a very boring place, that I thought: 'Why not try writing a novel?' partly out of youthful arrogance and partly because there had been a long line of writers in my mother's family.
- Antony Beevor
Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.
- Alexander Graham Bell
When will the others come?
And there is one who will never come. At least we will not see him if he does. But, oh, when I think he will be there--when our Canadian soldiers return there will be a shadow army with them--the army of the fallen. We will not *see* them--but they will be there!
- L M Montgomery
Idea is a software for the army and nation.
- Toba Beta
If the Army helped towards my tuition fees I would then give them four years of my life.
- James Blunt
I guess if you're stupid enough to join the army without thinking about getting shot at, then you really are a fool.
- James Blunt
Like any parents, mine wanted me to have a secure job with a regular wage and career prospects. And the one job my father knew of, that he'd had experience of himself, was the army, so he could help me in that direction.
- James Blunt
When the Chinese Wall was built, where'd the masons go for lunch? When Caesar conquered Gaul, was there not even a cook in the army? When the Armada sank, King Philip wept. Were there no other tears?
- Bertolt Brecht
I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
- Mel Brooks
Grand," I said. "Just grand. I get myself into the army, stand up in battles I have no business in, get nailed in the back by sorcery, accept an impossible assignment to be carried out in the middle of it all, and then, just to top things off, I have to go have a mystical fucking experience. This is just great.
- Steven Brust
Before I could lose my courage, I said, "Don't I get a kiss for luck? It's kind of a tradition, right?"
I figured she would punch me. Instead, she drew her knife and stared at the army marching toward us. "Come back alive, Seaweed Brain. Then, we'll see.
- Rick Riordan
We heard the army before we saw it.
The noise was like a cannon barrage combined with a football stadium crowd- like every Patriots fan in New England was charging us with bazookas.
- Rick Riordan
The law increasing and organizing the military establishment of the United States has been nearly carried into effect, and the Army has been extensively and usefully employed during the past season.
- Martin Van Buren
I thought to myself, Join the army. It's free. So I figured while I'm here I'll lose a few pounds.
- John Candy
Sacramental attachments to a dying a resurrected savior was a common idea in the Roman Empire. The religion of Mithraism, very popular in the army and open only to males, bathed the initiate in the blood of a bull.
- Norman F Cantor
There was no discussion between them; it was as if the bugs had worked out this whole scenario long ago. Temp put on a burst of speed for the end of the bridge, and Tick turned to face down the army of rats alone.
- Suzanne Collins
Since I'm allergic to various things, the army wouldn't accept me during the war, and I got into the Office of War Information, which sent music to Europe.
- Elliott Carter
Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.
- Winston Churchill
An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
- William Tecumseh Sherman
One of the main reasons America should re-elect President Obama is that he is still committed to cooperation. He appointed Republican Secretaries of Defense, the Army and Transportation. He appointed a Vice President who ran against him in 2008.
- William J Clinton
The sergeant is the Army.
- Dwight D Eisenhower
Two new reports indicate that, under Bush, the Army is overstretched and under enormous strain. The National Guard and reserves have been weakened and we are experiencing numerous recruiting problems.
- Jim Clyburn
Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations.
- Sun Tzu
It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.
- Sun Tzu
When one treats people with benevolence, justice, and righteoousness, and reposes confidence in them, the army will be united in mind and all will be happy to serve their leaders'.
- Sun Tzu
Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move.
- Sun Tzu
I had a tremendous horror of going into the Army. That is probably why I went to college for so long.
- Bruce Conner
I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.
- Billy Connolly
Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining army has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure.
- Robert A Cook
The army teaches boys to think like men.
- Elvis Presley
The next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called, GI Blues. I thought I was still in the army.
- Elvis Presley
As the landscape changed from brown to green, the army awakened, and began to tremble with eagerness at the noise of rumors.
- Stephen Crane
Hooray!" said the Chief of the Army. "Let's blow everyone up! Bang-bang! Bang-bang!
- Roald Dahl
With the CGI, suddenly there's a thousand enemies instead of six - the army goes off into the horizon. You don't need that. The audience loses its relationship with the threat on the screen. That's something that's consistently happening and it makes these movies like video games and that's a soulless enterprise. It's all kinetics without emotion.
- Harrison Ford
I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War.
- Larry David
You know, I think the main purpose of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps is to get poor Americans into clean, pressed, unpatched clothes, so rich Americans can stand to look at them.
- Kurt Vonnegut
I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me.
- Sammy Davis Jr
He explained to Atro that he now understood why the army was organized as it was. It was indeed quite necessary. No rational form of organization would serve the purpose. He simply had not understood that the purpose was to enable men with machine guns to kill unarmed men and women easily and in great quantities when told to do so. Only he still could not see where courage, or manliness, or fitness entered in.
- Ursula K Le Guin
I've fallen back on this periodically, although I must say that getting out of the grocery business ranked right up there with getting out of the army as one of the happier experiences of my life.
- David Eddings
Creationist? Well, no, it's not creationist either. The point is that we are probably a bit less top-to-bottom thorough than, say, the Army Corps of Engineers. Well, actually, scratch that. We are probably about exactly as thorough as the Army Corps of Engineers, in that we are intermittently thorough.
- Dave Eggers
The whole point of being in the Army is wanting to get killed, wanting to test yourself to the limits. Now you have to fly 15,000ft above the war zone to avoid getting hit. I don't think there is any point in having wars if that's how you're going to behave. It's pathetic. All this whining!
- Rupert Everett
Now what do you get in the Army? Bad helmets and Basra. Your guns don't work and everyone hates you when you come back.
- Rupert Everett
The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.
- Oded Fehr
to all those unfortunate men who are widowers, I throw the sublime proclamation of Bonaparte to the army of Italy: Soldiers, you are in need of everything; the enemy has it.
- Victor Hugo
But the same thing was true in the army. You slept in a barracks with all kinds of people of every nationality, every trade, every character and quality you can imagine, and that was a good experience.
- Shelby Foote
You know, actually, I went to Yale because I wanted to stay out of the army.
- Richard Foreman
She decided to donate blood to the Red Cross; she wanted to donate a quart a week and her blood would be in the veins of Australians and Fighting French and Chinese, all over the whole world, and it would be as though she were close kin to all of these people. She could hear the army doctors saying that the blood of Frankie Addams was the reddest and the strongest blood that they had ever known.
- Carson Mccullers
If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army.
- Frederick Ii
Well, my father was in the Army and we traveled quite a bit when I was growing up, and I thought that I would like to have a military career, although I was drawn more towards the Navy.
- Marc Garneau
With Yeltsin, the Soviet Union broke apart, the country was totally mismanaged, the constitution was not respected by the regions of Russia. The army, education and health systems collapsed. People in the West quietly applauded, dancing with and around Yeltsin. I conclude therefore that we should not pay too much attention to what the West is saying.
- Mikhail Gorbachev
I felt we really couldn't be separated that much. I'd had a baby, and I was traveling and working alone while he was in the Army. It was very difficult-the phone calls and all of that. I really was very depressed.
- Eydie Gorme
My Mother is Swedish and my Father is Scottish, he played for Charlton in the 1960's and was in the Army, he captained the British forces team. We then moved to S.A. because a lot of players did that at the time.
- Richard Gough
When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship.
- Dick Gregory
The army slew a thousand and showed little pity
The king ordered fealty from the conquered city
The prince charmed its people with words wise and witty
And the queen sat on a couch, looking very pretty
- Shannon Hale
Bein' a friend is a heavy commitment. In a way, even more than a husband or wife.... Friendship to me means more than just somebody to talk to, or run with, or hang with.
Bein' friends is like being soldiers in the army. You live together; you fight together; you die together.
- Ron Hall
Bein friends is like being soldiers in the army. You live together, you fight together; you die together.
- Ron Hall
For me personally, as I said, I want to serve my country. I've done it once, and I'm still in the army, I feel as though I should get the opportunity to do it again.
- Prince Harry
Anyone who says they don't enjoy the Army is mad - you can spend a week hating it and the next week it could be the best thing in the world and the best job you could ever, ever wish for. It has got so much to offer.
- Prince Harry
Tucking my nose into a book makes me completely oblivious to my surroundings. I would have made a terrible spy in the army--the first person to hand me a novel would have been able to shoot my head clean off without me noticing.
- Alyxandra Harvey
We were defined by what we did. What we had to do.
I think this is why guys like football, and why they join the army, because as long as you are playing the game or following orders you do not have to figure out who you really are.
- Pete Hautman
Those who served, and those who continue to serve in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard took an oath to uphold and protect the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic, and we can never forget the importance of their commitment to our Nation.
- Robin Hayes
That's a horrible dream!" Major Sanderson cried. "It's filled with pain and mutilation and death. I'm sure you had it just to spite me. You know, I'm not even sure you belong in the Army, with a disgusting dream like that.
- Joseph Heller
When I went off to the army when I was 17 years old, I believed in America and the rights of freedom. But today I believe my government is lying to the American people and that my president, George Bush, is a criminal.
- Jack Herer
Bush can talk about 100,000 people wanting to go work in the police or in the army. It's because there's nothing else for them to do. They're willing to stand in line to get bombed because they want to take care of their family.
- Seymour Hersh
Never try to take a fortified hill, especially if the Army on top is bigger than you are.
- William Reddington Hewlett
My New Year's Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle may they never give me peace. (New Year's Eve, 1947)
- Patricia Highsmith
There was a nuisance in the service known as the army correspondent.
- Daniel H Hill
In spite of certain distressing but isolated occurrences in the last battle, I certainly hoped that the Army would be in a position to continue to hold out.
- Paul Von Hindenburg
Okay, Charlie, you can do this, all you have to do is convince a career military man that your son shouldn't join the Army. That shouldn't be too hard, right?
- Tamara Hoffa
So when I told my parents I wanted to go into acting because I was flunking out of my first year of junior college, they were relieved that I had picked something other than joining the army. But I can't imagine how they had high hopes for me.
- Dustin Hoffman
Most people today couldn't tell a bombardier from a brigadier - said during a lecture in aid of the Army Benevolent Fund in 2009
- Richard Holmes
My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.
- Barry Humphries
At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets.
- Tahar Ben Jelloun
It is tragic that the Fuehrer should have the whole nation behind him with the single exception of the Army generals. In my opinion it is only by action that they can now atone for their faults of lack of character and discipline.
- Alfred Jodl
I got out of the Army - in my world - I came to New York, for instance, when the civil rights movement was just beginning, and that created a certain energy, a certain rumble, a certain impetus for black actors.
- James Earl Jones
When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied acting, which involved dance and fencing and speech classes and history of theater, all that.
- James Earl Jones
The Army might screw you and your girlfriend might dump you and the enemy might kill you, but the shared commitment to safeguard one another's lives is unnegotiable and only deepens with time. The willingness to die for another person is a form of love that even religions fail to inspire, and the experience of it changes a person profoundly.
- Sebastian Junger
The army consists of the first infantry division and eight million replacements.
- Sebastian Junger
The Army damages itself when it doesn't live up to its own values.
- Claudia Kennedy
The army is under orders to defend every place.
- Helmut Kohl
People were very affected by the war. But it didn't mean you stopped painting unless you were called into the Army; then you just couldn't paint. But otherwise one continued.
- Lee Krasner
But this show, this shower of fire and ice and blood, reminded him yet again that God is faithful. He keeps his promises. While our ways are not his ways and we can never understand him this side of heaven, Rayford was assured again that he was on the side of the army that had already won this war.
- Tim Lahaye
The army leaves me time to think, and saves me from the battle of life.
- D H Lawrence
The Army has carried the American ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.
- Tom Lehrer
My friendship you shall have, leanred Man," piped Reepicheep. "And any Dwarf--or Giant---in the army who does not give you good language shall have my sword to reckon with.
- C S Lewis
I wanted to join the Army the sign said 'Be All That You Can Be', they told me it wasn't enough.
- Jay London
I was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the youngest of four girls, including my oldest sister, Lisa, who has special needs. My mom was a special education teacher, and my dad worked on the Army base. We weren't wealthy, but we were determined to succeed.
- Eva Longoria
In a very short time the army of Northern Virginia was face to face with the Army of the Potomac.
- James Longstreet
The Army was my bread and butter.
- Brian Lumley
Now, when I was in the Army, writing was my hobby.
- Brian Lumley
If, like Harry Keogh, I could talk to the dead - God, there are an awful lot of people I would like to speak to! Not least my father. Being in the army for 22 years, I didn't see enough of him, and I know there are a great many things I could have learned from him.
- Brian Lumley
I remember the first time I put on the Army uniform. I just felt like a totally different person - I felt proud.
- Jessica Lynch
I am one of the million or more male residents of the United Kingdom, who a year ago had no special yearning towards military life, but who joined the army after war was declared.
- Patrick Macgill
I watch him walk away with the only family he has left and I know why Adam joined the army.
I know why he suffered through being Warner's whipping boy. I know why he dealt with the horrifying reality of war, why he was so desparate to run away, so ready to run way as soon as possible. Why he's so determined to fight back.
He's fighting for so much more than himself.
- Tahereh Mafi
At the end of the day, though, the band members have to be strong. It's down to the individuals in the unit. Listen to me, I'm talking like I'm in the army and this is my squadron.
- Shirley Manson
I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.
- Mickey Mantle
In life I've always considered myself statistically challenged. I married my high school sweetheart and then he joined the Army. Lucky for me, love has nothing to do with statistics.
- Shawn Kirsten Maravel
The moment you enlist in the army of God, you personally become a target. You need to remember that if you're living for and walking with Jesus Christ, the powers of darkness are aligned against you.
- Walter Martin
It is not advantageous for Russia in its present state to fight against Chechnya. The army is a mess. It must be made combat ready. That will take time. Russia has a lot of economic, social and political problems much more important than Chechnya.
- Aslan Maskhadov
I would sooner read the catalogue of the Army and Navy Stores or Bradshaw's Guide than nothing at all, and indeed I have spent many delightful hours over both these works.
- W Somerset Maugham
I'm convinced that the infantry is the group in the army which gives more and gets less than anybody else.
- Bill Mauldin
I would like to thank the people who encouraged me to draw army cartoons at a time when the gag man's conception of the army was one of mean ole sergeants and jeeps which jump over mountains.
- Bill Mauldin
When this sad war is over we will all return to our homes, and feel that we can ask no higher honor than the proud consciousness that we belonged to the Army of the Potomac.
- George B Mcclellan
My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It's about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. It's about Washington and the army and the war. It's the nadir, the low point of the United States of America.
- David Mccullough
We also very importantly recommend continued growth in the Army and the Marine Corps end strength.
- John M Mchugh
Bring the army of the faithful through.
- George Meredith
The army did what Milosevic's regime asked of it, which was to create a 'Greater Serbia'.
- Stjepan Mesic
How long was I in the army? Five foot eleven.
- Spike Milligan
I spent two years in the Army. And my older brother, who was also a great positive influence on me, encouraged me to think about law school, and I said - well, I didn't have any money.
- George J Mitchell
I became a Communist because I fell in love with a man who was a Red and entered the Army to take care of the Fascists, and I knew it would please him if I became one.
- Karen Morley
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.
- Josefina Vazquez Mota
In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer.
- Louis Mumford
My Dad was from Liverpool, and he picked it up in the army. He'd often come out with this stuff.
- Mike Myers
The army is always the same. The sun and the moon change. The army knows no seasons.
- Frank S Nugent
The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one's country
- George S Patton
That's my advice to all homosexuals, whether they're in the Boy Scouts, or in the Army or in high school: Shut up, don't tell anybody what you do, your life will be a lot easier.
- Bill Oreilly
I even tried to join the army, but they wouldn't have me. The bloke in the uniform took one look at my ugly mug and said, 'Sorry, we want subjects, not objects'.
- Ozzy Osbourne
The highly skilled workers at Lima have enabled the plant to grow far beyond its original mission, now providing a wide variety of cutting-edge military vehicles and equipment to the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps.
- Michael Oxley
It won't be a question of how well-trained or well-equipped the army is but one of the authority it serves.
- Adnan Pachachi
My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn't know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
- Al Pacino
The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.
- Orhan Pamuk
It's almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you.
- John Dos Passos
I joined the army as a private. I was offered a rank at that time, but I refused. I preferred to remain a private. First of all, I wasn't taken by ranks, and before I knew it, they put me in the most sensitive positions anyway.
- Shimon Peres
I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.
- Colin Powell
These scars on my body," Alexander declared, "were got for you, my brothers. Every wound, as you see, is in the front. Let that man stand forth from your ranks who has bled more than I, or endured more than I for your sake. Show him to me, and I will yield to your weariness and go home." Not a man came forward. Instead, a great cheer arose from the army. The men begged their king to forgive them for their want of spirit and pleaded with him only to lead them forward.
- Steven Pressfield
The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. The only proper functions of a government are: the police, to protect you from criminals; the army, to protect you from foreign invaders; and the courts, to protect your property and contracts from breach or fraud by others, to settle disputes by rational rules, according to objective law. (John Galt)
- Ayn Rand
When we gaze at the magnificence of an ancient monument and ascribe its achievement to one man, we are guilty of spiritual embezzlement. We forget the army of craftsmen, unknown and unsung, who preceded him in the darkness of the ages, who toiled humbly - all heroism is humble - each contributing his small share to the common treasure of his time. A great building is not the private invention of some genius or other. It is merely a condensation of the spirit of a people.
- Ayn Rand
I loved the Army as an institution and loathed every single thing it required me to do.
- Simon Raven
We pay for the navy, and we have no commerce for the navy to protect; we pay for the army, and we loathe and execrate the work upon which it has been engaged.
- John Edward Redmond
With this announcement today, the Army has made it clear what we have known all along - that Fort Riley is truly the crown jewel of the United States Army.
- Jim Ryun
I never joined the army for patriotic reasons.
- Isaac Rosenberg
He once told Allie and I that if he'd had to shoot anybody, he wouldn't've known which direction to shoot in. He said the Army was practically as full of bastards as the Nazis were.
- J D Salinger
I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army.
- John Scalzi
So the whole of war, when you look at it is probably run by professional soldiers, and the rest of them are just recruits, or people who are just forced to join the army.
- Gerald Scarfe
I hated leaving a hole in the smoking world, and so I recruited someone to take my place. People have given me a lot of grief, but I'm pretty sure that after high school, this girl would have started anyway, especially if she chose the army over community college.
- David Sedaris
I am in suspense as to the probable or improbability of being called into the Army, a station I would prefer to any other that of being in arms to defend an injured and grossly insulted country.
- John Sevier
Just as the 99% of Soviet citizens who supported the Soviet regime in 1985 was no indication of what the people inside the USSR really thought, the army of true believers that we think we see in the Arab world is an illusion.
- Natan Sharansky
Curious people who have become accustomed to think that one cannot sustain the moral of the army without giving it the freedom to shed blood from time to time.
- Moshe Sharett
The Army War College has been a tradition in central Pennsylvania for years.
- Bill Shuster
The crises in North Korea, Iran, the Middle East, show how quickly things can change and how they can go wrong. We must be prepared. And right now the Army is not.
- Ike Skelton
During the 2000 election, the current administration told our military, help is on the way. That is clearly not the case. The administration has failed to request the funds needed for the defense of this Nation. We must give the Army what it needs.
- Ike Skelton
Just look at the Old Testament. They didn't go out with the army first. They sent the musicians out.
- Michael W Smith
I wish the army had taught us how to navigate feelings as easily as they did a starless night sky.
- Roy L Smith
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.
- Jack Steinberger
If you're so smart, let's see you get out of the Army.
- Casey Stengel
I grew up all over the world. My father was in the army and was posted to a new place every two and a half years. I have no geographical roots.
- Juliet Stevenson
It seems as if everybody in the country was getting impatient to get his or her particular soldier out of the Army and to upset the carefully arranged system of points for retirement which we had arranged with the approval of the Army itself.
- Henry L Stimson
In this respect I expressed my doubts about using the Corps directly on the South coast, to form a bridgehead for the Army - as the area immediately behind the coast was now covered with obstacles. These doubts were accepted by Hitler.
- Kurt Student
But the Air Force was sort of a bastard child of the Army, much like the Marines with the Navy. Everything had to be done over by the Army after it had already been done by the Air Corps, a mess.
- Stuart Symington
My father-in-law was once Chairman of Military Affairs in the Senate, the latter part of the Wilson Administrations. He knew a lot about and was fond of the Army.
- Stuart Symington
We need a defense budget that's big enough to sustain an increase in the size of the Army.
- James Talent
Difficulty of subsistence made the invaders reduce the numbers of the army to a point at which it might live on the country during the prosecution of the war.
- Thucydides
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.
- Hideki Tojo
The new Congress needs to move quickly to strengthen the Army and Marines - not to send more troops to Iraq - but to rebuild our capacity to meet national security threats globally.
- Mark Udall
Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.
- Bill Vaughan
The people who were against the Vietnam War thought I was attacking the Army. The guys in the Army thought I was representing their experiences. I was on both sides, and I survived.
- Mort Walker
I took Beetle home thinking that after the Korean War was over, I would have to take him out of the Army. I thought, well, what am I going to do with him?
- Mort Walker
I'd come out of the army after five years as a medic. I was a medical administrator and we ran hospitals, and I was a Captain in the army at the end, in 1945.
- Eli Wallach
If they are really persuaded that the army is annually established by me, that I have the sole disposal of posts and honours, that I employ this power in the destruction of liberty and the diminution of commerce, let me awaken them from their delusion.
- Robert Walpole
I owe everything to the army.
- Norman Wisdom
I've been extremely lucky having been in the army when I was a boy of fourteen.
- Norman Wisdom
My whole life experience feeds into my writing. I think that must be true for every writer. Clearly the Army and combat were major influences; just the same, you need to understand that many of the writers we have now couldn't load a revolver.
- Gene Wolfe
Length of service: one year or duration of war. Duration of war, of course. He didn't want to spend a whole year in the army.
- Louisa Young
My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he saluted, he killed himself.
- Henny Youngman
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