1,014 Quotes About Army

  • Author E. P. Thompson
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    As the war in Iraq drags on, the Army is accumulating a collection of problems that cumulatively could call into question the viability of an all-volunteer force.

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  • Author Harry S Truman
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    When contemplating General Eisenhower winning the Presidential election, Truman said, Hell sit here, and hell say, Do this! Do that! And nothing will happen. Poor Ikeit wont be a bit like the Army. Hell find it very frustrating.

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  • Author Henry David Thoreau
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    Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts - a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments.

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  • Author Henry David Thoreau
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    Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government.

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  • Author Henry David Thoreau
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    The only government that I recognize--and it matters not how few are at the head of it, or how small its army--is that power thatestablishes justice in the land, never that which establishes injustice.

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  • Author J. R. R. Tolkien
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    Here you find us sitting on a field of victory, amid the plunder of armies, and you wonder how we came by a few well-earned comforts!

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  • Author Jalal Talabani
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    We can depend on this militia for a while, then send them to the army or back to their jobs.

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  • Author Jim Talent
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    We need a defense budget that's big enough to sustain an increase in the size of the Army.

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