1,014 Quotes About Army

  • Author Subcomandante Marcos
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    In previous armies, soldiers used their time to clean their weapons and stock up on ammunition. Our weapons are words, and we may need our arsenal at any moment.

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  • Author Subcomandante Marcos
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    In our dreams we have seen another world, an honest world, a world decidedly more fair than the one in which we now live. We saw that in this world there was no need for armies; peace, justice and liberty were so common that no one talked about them as far-off concepts, but as things such as bread, birds, air, water, like book and voice.

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  • Author Thomas B. Macaulay
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    There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen.

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  • Author Thomas Francis Meagher
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    The prosperity of a nation requires the protection of a senate. Hereafter a national senate may require the protection of a national army.

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  • Author Walid Muallem
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    Laying siege to enemy-controlled cities allows attacking armies to keep their own casualties low by avoiding urban combat.

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  • Author Walter Dean Myers
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    I remember one time being told I could not play in a basketball game at the College of William and Mary because I was black, even though I was playing with a United States Army team.

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  • Author Albert J. Nock
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    The mentality of an army on the march is merely so much delayed adolescence; it remains persistently, incorrigibly and notoriously infantile.

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  • Author Alfred Nobel
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    My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions. As soon as men will find that in one instant, whole armies can be utterly destroyed, they surely will abide by golden peace.

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