Top 100 Army Is Quotes
#1. God is waiting, heaven is waiting, and the heavenly army is waiting for us to move forward and accomplish the will of God
Sunday Adelaja
#2. An army is a strange masterpiece of combination where force results from an enormous sum of impotence. Thus is war, made by humanity against humanity, despite humanity, explained.
Victor Hugo
#3. Our way of getting an army able to fight the German army is to declare war on Germany just as if we had such an army, and then trust to the appalling resultant peril and disaster to drive us into wholesale enlistment.
George Bernard Shaw
#4. The crises in North Korea, Iran, the Middle East, show how quickly things can change and how they can go wrong. We must be prepared. And right now the Army is not.
Ike Skelton
#5. The army is always the same. The sun and the moon change. The army knows no seasons.
Frank S. Nugent
#6. The Red Army is like a furnace in which all captured soldiers are melted down and transformed the moment they come over.
Mao Zedong
#7. If those who are sent to draw water begin by drinking themselves, the army is suffering from thirst. [One may know the condition of a whole army from the behavior of a single man.]
Sun Tzu
#10. It has been said that one bad general is better than two good ones, and the saying is true if taken to mean no more than that an army is better directed by a single mind, though inferior, than by two superior ones at variance and cross-purposes with each other.
Abraham Lincoln
#11. The spirit of an army is the factor which multiplied by the mass gives the resulting force. To define and express the significance of this unknown factor - the spirit of an army - is a problem for science.
Leo Tolstoy
#12. Seeing your name on the list for KP or guard duty when you're in the Army is like reading a bad review.
Robert Duvall
#13. The bottom line is the Kiss Army is growing by leaps and bounds.
Ace Frehley
#14. Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth.
Duke Of Wellington
#15. If ever you need it, I will level mountains to give you a desk. Even if an army is at our door, I'll hold them off until your ink runs dry.
Meljean Brook
#16. It's unclear how air strikes on our part can succeed unless the Iraqi army is willing to fight, and that's uncertain given the fact that several Iraqi army divisions have melted away.
Carl Levin
#17. Well, you not the first by a long shot. An integrated army is integrated misery. You all go fight, come back, they treat you like dogs. Change that. They treat dogs better.
Toni Morrison
#18. The UN to some extent diffuses U.S. power. Therefore it's less direct an agency of the United States than the U.S. Army is. But still, it can't escape the distribution of power in the world.
Noam Chomsky
#19. The European Army is our long-term goal. But first we have to strengthen the European Defence Union.
Angela Merkel
#20. An Army is an instrument of government. It must be used in such a way that it furthers the interests of government. Otherwise what use is it? Only an extremely costly machine for ... minting medals.
Joe Abercrombie
#21. The whole point of being in the Army is wanting to get killed, wanting to test yourself to the limits. Now you have to fly 15,000ft above the war zone to avoid getting hit. I don't think there is any point in having wars if that's how you're going to behave. It's pathetic. All this whining!
Rupert Everett
#22. An army is a strange contrivance in which power is the sum of a vast total of impotence.
Victor Hugo
#23. Two new reports indicate that, under Bush, the Army is overstretched and under enormous strain. The National Guard and reserves have been weakened and we are experiencing numerous recruiting problems.
Jim Clyburn
#24. Before they deploy, they train for the specific operations, but there is a danger that the Army is not retaining the core of its full capabilities.
Des Browne
#25. The German Army is tired. The vain effort to defeat Russia's armies has used up its equipment and reduced its morale.
Walther Von Brauchitsch
#26. My position in the army is as sport instructor. This allows me generous time off for travel and competition. I also receive a monthly salary from the army.
Roman Sebrle
#27. The people are like water and the army is like fish.
Mao Zedong
#28. An Army wife is probably the only woman in the world who
knows and readily accepts that she is the mistress, because, let's
face it, the Army is the wife and the wife gets all the damn
attention!
Aditi Mathur Kumar
#30. The army is at once the worst place for egoists, and the best.
Anthony Powell
#31. The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!
Rudyard Kipling
#32. A good soldier, whether he leads a platoon or an army, is expected to look backward as well as forward; but he must think only forward.
Douglas MacArthur
#33. No army is comprised of all the same kinds of units or types of troops. There is power in diversity. If you always see only one choice, or use only one option, you will surely lose more than you win.
A.J. Darkholme
#34. Anyone who says they don't enjoy the Army is mad - you can spend a week hating it and the next week it could be the best thing in the world and the best job you could ever, ever wish for. It has got so much to offer.
Prince Harry
#35. No one looks for pots of gold, it just happens. Sure, some people are born with an incredible financial ability, and some people are natural salesmen, but creating a business, driving a venture, mobilizing an army, is not something you are born to do - it just happens, by accident.
Ronnie Apteker
#36. The only time France wants us to go to war is when the German Army is sitting in Paris sipping coffee.
Regis Philbin
#37. The Syrian army is tired of corruption. It is tired of party nepotism. It is becoming very angry with those it blames for the war.
Robert Fisk
#38. To capture the enemy's entire army is better than to destroy it; to take intact a regiment, a company, or a squad is better than to destroy them. For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the supreme of excellence. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the supreme excellence.
Sun Tzu
#39. It is imperative to contest all factions for complete victory, so the army is not garrisoned and the profit can be total. This is the law of strategic siege.
Sun Tzu
#40. To capture an enemies army is better than to destroy it.
Sun Tzu
#41. It is not advantageous for Russia in its present state to fight against Chechnya. The army is a mess. It must be made combat ready. That will take time. Russia has a lot of economic, social and political problems much more important than Chechnya.
Aslan Maskhadov
#42. Canada's army is three men and a dog. They probably keep their stuff forever.
Lee Child
#43. He will win whose army is animated by the spirit throughout all its ranks.
Sun Tzu
#44. The only difference between a mob and a trained army is organization.
Calvin Coolidge
#45. The only thing strong about the French Army is their damn body odor.
Dwayne Johnson
#46. An Army is still a crowd, though a highly organized one. It is governed by the same laws, and under the stress of war is ever tending to revert to its crowd form. Our object in peace is so to train it that the reversion will become very slow.
J. F. C. Fuller
#47. An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
William Tecumseh Sherman
#48. I have been up too congress, and they do not seem to do anything except eat peanuts and chew tobacco while my army is starving ...
Robert E.Lee
#49. In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer.
Lewis Mumford
#50. A nation fights well in proportion to the amount of men and materials it has. And the other equation is that the individual soldier in that army is a more effective soldier the poorer his standard of living has been in the past.
Norman Mailer
#51. Knowledge is lost without putting it into practice; a man is lost due to ignorance; an army is lost without a commander; and a woman is lost without a husband.
Chanakya
#52. A standing army is like a standing member. It's an excellent assurance of domestic tranquility, but a dangerous temptation to foreign adventure.
Elbridge Gerry
#53. As the rising sun melts thinly frozen ice, so the Japanese Army is overcoming Chinese troops.
Shunroku Hata
#54. Maneuvering with an army is advantageous; with an undisciplined multitude, most dangerous.
Sun Tzu
#55. The principle on which to manage an army is to set up one standard of courage which all must reach.
Sun Tzu
#56. The Red Army is advancing with giant strides ... Hitler will not be able to harm us, even if he wants to ...
Elie Wiesel
#57. I think if you grow up in a culture where the army is out on the street sighting you with rifles, it has to have some kind of psychological impact.
Adrian McKinty
#58. An army is a miniature of the society which produces it.
C.L.R. James
#59. An army isn't made of its officers, you know, though we officers like to think it is. An army is no better than its men, and when you find good men, you must look after them. That's an officer's job.
Bernard Cornwell
#60. 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
#61. There's not much makeup in the army, is there? No. They only have that nighttime look, and that's a bit slapdash, isn't it?
Eddie Izzard
#62. The finishing off of the encircled enemy army is to be left to the Luftwaffe.
Franz Halder
#63. Do not hire those who are incapable.
Do not fire those who are capable.
A small, devoted army is greater
than a large, indifferent one.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#64. The victorious army is victorious first and seeks battle later; the defeated army seeks battle first and seeks victory later.
Sun Tzu
#65. An all-volunteer army is best suited to fight the new wars of the 21st century.
George W. Bush
#66. The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one's country
George S. Patton Jr.
#67. A general is powerless without an army.
An army is directionless without a general.
To win battles a general and an army need each other.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#68. Now an army is exposed to six several calamities, not arising from natural causes, 1 but from faults for which the general is responsible. These are: (1) Flight; (2) insubordination; (3) collapse; (4) ruin; (5) disorganisation; (6) rout.
Sun Tzu
#69. Oman's book Wellington's Army is 400 pages in length but just a single page is devoted to the artillery with the opening, 'only a short note is required as to Wellington's use of artillery'. Historians ever since
Nick Lipscombe
#70. Commanders and senior officers should die with troops. The honour of the British Empire and the British Army is at stake.
Lord Randolph Churchill
#72. The great help of being in the Army is to understand why are the armies clever in what they describe as emotional intelligence, making soldiers come to terms with the death of comrades by certain rituals.
Antony Beevor
#73. The heaviest snowfall in over 60 years is being reported in Beijing, China. To give you an idea of how bad it is, the army is now using snowplows to run over dissidents.
Jay Leno
#74. You cannot defeat Islamic State with airstrikes only. It's necessary to cooperate with ground troops, and the Syrian army is the most efficient and powerful ground force to fight the Islamic State.
Sergei Lavrov
#75. A part of being in the army is you never really leave a man behind.
Geoff Stults
#76. The loss of any army is always caused by underestimating the enemy. Therefore gather information and watch the enemy carefully.
Zhuge Liang
#77. The feminine section of the proletarian army is of particularly great significance... the success of a revolution depends on the extent to which women take part in it.
Vladimir Lenin
#79. What's with books and soldiers? I wonder. The whole bloody army is turning into pansy intellectuals.
Mohammed Hanif
#80. In a case such as this, unless an entire army is available, the safest number of men will be one. We have no army, and therefore I will go.
Nicole Sager
#81. The Army is the most outstanding institution in every country, for it alone makes possible the existence of all civic institutions.
Helmuth James Graf Von Moltke
#82. The whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak violence upon South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate.
William Tecumseh Sherman
#83. A standing army is one of the greatest mischief that can possibly happen.
James Madison
#84. The army is under orders to defend every place.
Helmut Kohl
#85. The Lybian army is capable of destroying America and breaking its nose.
Muammar Al-Gaddafi
#86. I don't agree that you need an enormous number of American troops. Saddam's army is down to one-third than it was before, and I think it would be a cakewalk.
Kenneth Adelman
#87. The Australian Army is a highly respected National institution because of its people. It's all about the people. If we communicate, and leverage off all in our organisation, not just our senior officers, our IQ will be awesome. Then there will be no job which is beyond us.
Ken Gillespie
#88. If we are calm," replied the policeman, "it is the calm of organized resistance."
"Eh?" said Syme, staring.
"The soldier must be calm in the thick of the battle," pursued the policeman. "The composure of an army is the anger of a nation.
G.K. Chesterton
#89. Where the army is, prices are high; when prices rise the wealth of the people is exhausted.
Sun Tzu
#91. An Army is a team. It lives sleeps eats and fights as a team. This individual heroic stuff is pure horse shit
George S. Patton Jr.
#92. Paper clip. Ping. Disaster. Colonel Bowie is down. Colonel Bowie is down! The Mexican Army is now leaderless. Capone gloats.
Dean Koontz
#93. It won't be a question of how well-trained or well-equipped the army is but one of the authority it serves.
Adnan Pachachi
#94. This idea struck me: the army is the body : I am the brain. Thinking is my fighting. (15 May 1940)
Virginia Woolf
#96. If they are really persuaded that the army is annually established by me, that I have the sole disposal of posts and honours, that I employ this power in the destruction of liberty and the diminution of commerce, let me awaken them from their delusion.
Robert Walpole
#98. But you think it because you don't trust your colleagues. Not all of them. You don't believe in them. Which leaves you isolated. It's all down to you. But the army is different. Whatever else is wrong with it, you can trust your brother soldiers. And believe in them.
Lee Child
#100. The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that's what an army is
a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers. But a mob without any MAN at the head of it is BENEATH pitifulness.
Mark Twain
