175 quotes found
“Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.”
“An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.”
“I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.”
“A wounded lover is more dangerous than a coward army.”
“Disease could wipe out an army quicker than any battle.”
“It occurred to me that if I could invent a machine - a gun - which could by its rapidity of fire, enable one man to do as much battle duty as a hundred, that it would, to a large extent supersede t...”
“I can see the little girl, the face of the little girl. And as much as people say that they don't care about these people and all that, I don't care about these people - but I do, at the same time,...”
“What would my first sergeant do if he came across me and another girl getting it on? He'd want pictures. He'd want to join in. He'd want me and this other girl to double-team him right then and the...”
“But if you want him, you might have to fight for him." I let my head fall to the tabletop. "For the love of all that is dead and Chinese, please, no more fighting. This army needs a break.”
“In army they say "Shoot to Kill" and in Sales "Pitch to Sell".”
“Esteem for the army - never in this country regarded, in the continental manner, as a popular expression of the national will - implies a kind of innocence.”
“You have a powerful army, Kublai, but the best force is one you do not have to use.”
“I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army.Visiting Kathy's grave was the less dramatic of the two.”
“Put 'em who threaten possessions and power together with 'em who offend our tastes in sex and dope. Those who're touched, put 'em in asylums. Pack off old ones to 'senior communities,' nursing home...”
“Boys torment each other when theres nothing else to do and no Frenchmen to fight.”
“We All Bleed RedWe have a confirmed threat against the homeland and I for one am grateful for the Americans sitting in the Army conference room in Fort Stewart, Georgia. The display cubes and scree...”
“8 April 1891The obscenity of nostrils and mouths; the ignominious cupidity of smiles and women encountered in the street; the shifty baseness on every side, as of hyenas and wild beasts ready to bi...”
“Secret operations are essential in war upon them the army relies to make its every move. ”
“An army marches on its stomach.”
“As they prepared themselves to go ashore no one doubted in theory that at least a certain percentage of them would remain on the island dead, once they set foot on it. But no one expected to be one...”