1 Man Army Quotes

#1. The Wall can stop an army, but not a man alone.

George R R Martin

#2. A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform, which they know is but earth or stone; nor of a cannon, which, without a hand to give fire to it, is but cold iron; therefore a whole army is afraid of one man.

James Harrington

#3. Thus the skilful general conducts his army just as though he were leading a single man, willy-nilly, by the hand.

Sun Tzu

#4. To make an Army work you have to have every man in it fitted into a fear ladder ... The Army functions best when you're frightened of the man above you, and contemptuous of your subordinates.

Norman Mailer

#5. The left-wing thinkers and intellectuals have been more misogynist with me than the army. They can't accept that a young woman is able to think, and they underestimate the intellectual work and study I might have done. They ask who is the man behind me.

Maria De Medeiros

#6. Doctors in 1945 would report that one of Berlin's children's favorite games was 'rape.' When they saw a man in uniform
even a Salvation Army uniform
they would start screaming hysterically.

Andrei Cherny

#7. If Lord Duryodhana was an evil man, why did great men like Bhishma, Drona, Kripa, Karna, entire army of Krishna fight war on his side??

Anand Neelakantan

#8. When armies are mobilized and issues joined, the man who is sorry over the fact will always win.

Laozi

#9. 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

#10. Are you okay, man?"
"Yeah, I'm good."
It's a lie. I wonder if I will ever be good again.

David Bellavia

#11. An army, I learned in time, needs a head. It needs one man to lead it, but give an army two leaders and you halve its strength.

Bernard Cornwell

#12. The heavy round face was looking at him, the hard look of a man who had also understood, who had seen all the stupidity, who knew, after all, that the gold stars were often mindless decoration, that the army was led not by symbols, but by the fallible egos and blind fantasies of men.

Jeff Shaara

#13. The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic

Joseph Stalin

#14. A decent moustache can intimidate a man, while a great moustache can frighten an army.

Anya Wylde

#15. Any man who has ever led an army, an expedition, or a group of Boy Scouts has sadism in his bones.

Tahir Shah

#16. If a man says he is not afraid of dying, he is either lying or is a Gurkha.

Sam Manekshaw

#17. All the qualities of a man acquire dignity when he knows that the service of the collectivity that owns him needs them. If proud of the collectivity, his own pride rises in proportion. No collectivity is like an army for nourishing such pride ...

William James

#18. General Longstreet,when once in a fight, was a most brilliant soldier; but he was the hardest man to move I had in my army.

Robert E.Lee

#19. I was a kind of a one-man army. I could solder circuits together, I could turn out things on the lathe, I could work with rockets and balloons. I'm a kind of a hybrid between an engineer and a physicist and astronomer.

James Van Allen

#20. Any religion with a sword is not a religion; it is merely an army of assassins! A real man of God carries only flowers in his hands!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#21. A part of being in the army is you never really leave a man behind.

Geoff Stults

#22. My grandfather had come over as a member of the czarist army, to make an arms deal with the British government. Being a blinkered military man, he was unaware that the Russian Revolution was about to take place.

Helen Mirren

#23. The death of a man is like the fall of a mighty nation That had valiant armies, captains, and prophets, And wealthy ports and ships all over the seas.

Czeslaw Milosz

#24. War is the sure result of the existence of armed men. That country which maintains a large standing army will sooner or later have a war. The man who prides himself on fisticuffs is going, some day, to meet a man who considers himself the better man, and they will test the issue.

Elbert Hubbard

#25. The high courage of a single man is an army all by itself!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#26. A leader is the man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do, and like it.

Harry S. Truman

#27. The leader of armies is the arbiter of the people's fate, the man on whom it depends whether the nation shall be in peace or in peril.

Sun Tzu

#28. All of the real heroes are not storybook combat fighters either. Every single man in this Army plays a vital role. Don t ever let up. Don t ever think that your job is unimportant. Every man has a job to do and he must do it. Every man is a vital link in the great chain.

George S. Patton Jr.

#29. It is now conceded that all idea of British intervention is at an end ... I want to hug the army of the Potomac. I want to get the whole army of Vicksburg drunk at my own expense. I want to fight some small man and lick him.

Henry Adams

#30. It is hard for one man to beat an army," Danil said.
"But not impossible," Baradar answered.

Jameson Currier