Army Quotes, Quotations and Sayings
We have met the enemy and they are ours!
Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry
Why can’t they have gay people in the army? Personally, I think they are just afraid of a thousand guys with M16s going, “Who’d you call a faggot?”
Jon Stewart
War is cruelty. There’s no use trying to reform it, the crueler it is the sooner it will be over.
William Tecumseh Sherman
An army of asses led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by an ass.
George Washington
Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are in finishing it.
Will Rogers
I didn’t raise my boy to be a soldier, I brought him up to be my pride and joy, Who dares to put a musket to his shoulder, To kill some other mother’s boy.
One who sets the entire army in motion to chase an advantage will not attain it.
Sun Tzu
It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live; before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands.
Andre Gide
Without discipline the Army would just be a bunch of guys wearing the same color clothing.
Frank Burns
My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.
Barry Humphries
No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace or insure it victory in time of war.
Calvin Coolidge
The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave…
Patrick Henry
Therefore a victorious army first wins and then seeks battle; a defeated army first battles and then seeks victory.
Sun Tzu
They may attack me with an army of six hundred syllogisms; and if I do not recant, they will proclaim me a heretic.
Desiderius Erasmus
Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision.
Blake Clark
Never give in–never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
Winston Churchill
Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.
Josephus Daniels
Veni, Vedi, Vici (I came, I saw, I conquered)
Julius Caesar
A soldier is he whose blood makes the glory of the general.
Adapted from Henry G. Bohn
All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force take a drink from the Ohio or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a.
Abraham Lincoln
A standing army is one of the greatest mischief that can possibly happen.
James Madison
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
George Herbert
No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
J. Michael Straczynski
Freedom isn’t free.
Anonymous
Tis not seasonable to call a man a traitor that has an army at his heels.
John Selden
A great war leaves the country with three armies – an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves.
German Proverb
When armies are mobilized and issues joined, the man who is sorry over the fact will win.
Lao Tzu
If it moves, salute it; if it doesn’t move, pick it up; and if you can’t pick it up, paint it.
Anonymous
I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.
Charles M. de Talleyrand
Two armies are two bodies which meet and try to frighten each other.
Napoleon I
The ‘eathen in ‘is blindness must end where ‘e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!
Rudyard Kipling
From time to time, the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots.
Thomas Jefferson