Top 32 Battalions Quotes
#1. Horthy was no more of an anti-Semite than good manners required, and this was not something he may have wanted himself, but his duty was to preserve an independent Hungary, and if putting Jews into labor battalions was what was needed, he was going to do what was needed. For
George Friedman
#2. There must be a corps that will battle for righteousness, for there are endless battalions who serve unrighteousness.
Janet Morris
#3. Come, you drunken spirits. Come, you battalions. You fields of ghosts who walk these green plains still. Come, you giants!
Jez Butterworth
#4. God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.
Voltaire
#5. Snow pursued by the wind is not wholly unlike a retreating army. In the open field it ranges itself in ranks and battalions; where it can get a foothold it makes a stand; where it can take cover it does so. You may see whole platoons of snow cowering behind a bit of broken wall.
Ambrose Bierce
#6. They opposed brute force to reason and philosophy, and battalions of foreign mercenaries to ideas. As if ideas were to be impaled on bayonets!
Rafael Sabatini
#8. It is said that God is always on the side of the big battalions.
Voltaire
#10. The sailors in the Construction Battalions had been nicknamed Seabees, based on the initials of the unit.
Alex Malcolm
#11. Oh, diplomacy," said M.D., in his element, "it mops up war's spillages; legitimizes its outcomes; gives the strong state the means to impose its will on a weaker one, while saving its fleets and battalions for weightier opponents.
David Mitchell
#12. If God is always on the side of the big battalions as Voltaire says, then, let us not waste our time with little detachments!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#13. The man who looks only outside and quails before the big battalions has no resource with which to combat the evidence of his senses and his reason.
C. G. Jung
#14. I pointed out on the floor last year, after Hurricane Katrina, we were very proud that one of our National Guard engineering battalions was called to Louisiana. And they did a magnificent job.
Kit Bond
#16. When I get the morning report on security, I call those battalions in the regions where there are problems.
Alvaro Uribe
#17. Psychology is a soft weapon but you can take out
more enemy battalions with leaflets and radio broadcasts than with high explosives.
Nelson DeMille
#18. God tends to fight not on the side of the oppressed but on the side of the oppressor because the later has bigger battalions.
Chukwuemeka Ike
#19. Those who follow the banners oreason are like the well-disciplined battalions which, wearing a more sober uniform and making a less dazzling show than the light troops commanded by imagination, enjoy more safety, and even more honor, in the conflicts ohuman life.
Walter Scott
#20. He was presumably a lover. They did things like commanding battalions. And worse!
Ford Madox Ford
#21. Wait a while; there will come to you mounts, carrying lions in shining armor, battalions followed by battalions.
Khalid Ibn Al-Walid
#22. The Bible is not merely a book-it is a living power ... Nowhere as in the Bible can be found such a series of beautiful ideas and admirable maxims which pose before us like the battalions of a celestial army ... The soul can never go astray while it has this book for its guide.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#23. Global war is a clash of systems, not just battalions biffing one another in some godforsaken forest.
Rick Atkinson
#24. And the crocuses nodded and laughed, holding up their little yellow staves gaily to the sunshine, and shouting to each other that it was spring, clamouring to make the most of their great day, before the flowers came in battalions to crowd them out of sight and mind.
Gertrude Page
#25. God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
Voltaire
#26. The Crusades were not unprovoked. They were not the first round of European colonialism. They were not conducted for land, loot, or converts. The crusaders were not barbarians who victimized the cultivated Muslims. They sincerely believed that they served in God's battalions.
Rodney Stark
#27. The number of attacks on the American and allied forces is at the highest level since the insurgency began despite the increase of America combat operations and the introduction of some 40 new Iraq security forces and battalions.
Ike Skelton
#29. When sorrow comes, they come not single spies, but in battalions. I've allies in heaven, Jack, i've commrades in hell ... say hello for me ...
James O'Barr
#30. If you move between battalions, you are still within the same tribe.
Mike Jackson
#31. Brys, how big do you want to make your escort?"
"Two brigades and two battalions, sire."
"Is that reasonable?" Tehol asked, looking around.
"I have no idea," Janath replied. "Bugg?"
"I'm no general, my Queen."
"We need an expert opinion, then," said Tehol. "Brys?
Steven Erikson
#32. The man who, for party, forsakes righteousness, goes down; and the armed battalions of God march over him.
Wendell Phillips
