Top 100 Quotes About Armies
#1. For all armies are the finest in the world. The second finest army, if one could exist, would be in a notoriously inferior position; it would be certain to be beaten. It ought to be disbanded at once. Therefore, all armies are the finest in the world.
Anatole France
#2. That the people have a Right to mass and to bear arms; that a well regulated militia composed of the Body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper natural and safe defense of a free state, that standing armies, in time of peace, are dangerous to liberty, and therefore ought to be avoided ...
George Mason
#4. She wanted to tell him so mach, on the tarmac, the day he left. The world is run by brutal men and the surest proof is their armies. If they ask you to stand still, you should dance. If they ask you to burn the flag, wave it. If they ask you to murder, re-create.
Colum McCann
#5. Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations.
Kofi Annan
#6. She was fighting armies of demons which swirled through her mind and there was no way i could cross over into her nightmares and fight alongside her and bring her back.
Kiran Nagarkar
#7. It takes us long to learn that prayer is more important than organization, more powerful than armies, more influential than wealth and mightier than all learning.
Samuel Chadwick
#8. The soul may be compared to a field of battle, where the armies are ready every moment to encounter. Not a single vice but has a more powerful opponent, and not one virtue but may be overborne by a combination of vices.
Oliver Goldsmith
#9. You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders, armies don't.
John Stossel
#10. Standing navies, as well as standing armies, serve to keep alive the spirit of war even in the meek heart of peace. In its very embers and smoulderings, they nourish that fatal fire, and half-pay officers, as the priests of Mars, yet guard the temple, though no god be there.
Herman Melville
#11. The last and most painful irony is that the two longtime rival armies in the securitization market - the investment banks and the GSEs - would end up magnifying each other's sins rather than keeping each other in check.
Bethany McLean
#12. The majority of soldiers and officers of the Soviet Army and the allied armies treated the local population humanely.
Antony Beevor
#13. He thought that I was helpless, because he saw me lonely and poor; but are not the armies of Heaven for the like of me?
Elizabeth Gaskell
#14. The armies of the night are faceless and mindless and the modern equivalent of Visigoths, but when they have a leader, their time in history rolls around again.
James Lee Burke
#15. I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them.
Virginia Woolf
#16. Don't fear what they fear, or dread what they dread. 13After all, only the Eternal, Commander of heavenly armies, should terrify you. Only God is holy. Only God should leave you trembling.
Anonymous
#17. As once, when the armies of the empire were shattered and the strong barbarians poured in upon the soft provincials, so now the fierce weeds pressed in to destroy the pampered nursling's of man.
George R. Stewart
#18. On the European Front the most important development of the past year has been the crushing offensive of the Great Armies of Russia ...
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#19. Bad people aren't happy ... Wickedness often wears fancy clothes, dines on rich food, has money, controls armies, rules nations ... but it never seems to know joy. Peace, laughter, trust, ease: these things flee from wickedness like sparrows from the shadow of a hawk.
Sonya Hartnett
#20. I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
Thomas Jefferson
#21. I would hate to be thrust into the middle of a big film and not deliver. There's young actors and they're put into these central roles and they're commanding armies - but they can't quite pull it off. I'd much rather do it in small steps and build it from there.
Paddy Considine
#22. Everyone gets scared, Princess. Even brave men sometimes run the first time they see battle. In armies, that's why there's so much training. The ones who hold aren't the courageous ones, they're the well-trained ones. We have instincts like any other animal.
Brandon Sanderson
#23. At one time in the history of the Americas, weapons and armies were associated with liberty and independence, and with new opportunities for our peoples. At one time in the history of the Americas, there were liberating armies.
Oscar Arias
#24. For me, in a world full of armies of stylists and makeup artists, what I think truly makes a fashion icon is how a girl dresses when she's off duty and she has to put her own looks together - no small challenge!
Derek Blasberg
#25. Life is a war, and the families are the armies. Even if you win the war, some will never see you plant the flag.
R.A. Nelson
#26. But France's powerful armies, and a very large number of fortresses, ensure that the French Sovereign will possess the throne forever, and they do not have anything to fear now concerning internal wars or their neighbors invading France.
Frederick The Great
#27. In the armies, and among every ten men, there must be one of more life, of more heart, or at least of more authority, who with his spirit, with his words, and with his example keeps the others firm and disposed to fight.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#28. The greatest progress we have made, and the greatest progress we have yet to make, is in the human heart. In the end, all the world's wealth and a thousand armies are no match for the strength and decency of the human spirit.
William J. Clinton
#29. More powerful than the mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo
#30. This is a favorite game, matching wits with a Raker. He is blind to the dead, to the burning villages, to the starving children. As is the Rebel. Two blind armies, able to see nothing but one another.
Glen Cook
#31. After eating chocolate you feel godlike, as though you can conquer enemies, lead armies, entice lovers.
Emily Luchetti
#32. He who first shortened the labor of Copyists by device of Movable Types was disbanding hired armies and cashiering most Kings and Senates, and creating a whole new Democratic world: he had invented the Art of printing.
Thomas Carlyle
#33. As long as armies exist, any serious quarrel will lead to war.
Albert Einstein
#34. It struck Yuki as almost comic that humans drew lines on the globe, and on both sides of those lines raised up armies. Then they fought and died to take possession of...what? Hills. Yuki knew he had to fight, and had to win, but that didn't make war anything to be proud of.
Dean Hughes
#35. In 2004, I went to Israel and gave a speech that resulted in guns and ammunition being given to the South Sudanese rebels, specifically Commanders Athol's and Yaka's armies.
Kola Boof
#36. The union of the Roman empire was dissolved; its genius was humbled in the dust; and armies of unknown barbarians, issuing from the frozen regions of the North, had established their victorious reign over the fairest provinces of Europe and Africa.
Edward Gibbon
#37. Do not neglect the principles of foresight and know that often, puffed up with success, armies have lost the fruit of their heroism through a feeling of false security.
Frederick The Great
#38. Standing armies can never consist of resolute robust men; they may be well-disciplined machines, but they will seldom contain men under the influence of strong passions, or with very vigorous faculties.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
#39. Kings imagine they are powerful because they command armies. But in their truest moments, they finally learn who they are. Warriors fight wars, Asura. While kings die weak men.
John Arcudi
#40. Sympathy for the enemy
a weakness of police and armies alike. Most perilous are the unconscious sympathies directing you to preserve your enemy intact because the enemy is your justification for existence.
Frank Herbert
#41. It is still the arena of those who dream of the City of Man and those who envision a City of Things. The battle appears to be forever joined. The armies, ignorant and enlightened, clash by day as well as night. Chicago is America's dream, writ large. And flamboyantly.
Studs Terkel
#42. One of the strangest catastrophes that is in any history. A great king, with strong armies and mighty fleets, a great treasure and powerful allies, fell all at once, and his whole strength, like a spider's web, was ... irrecoverably broken at a touch.
Gilbert Burnet
#43. Then Arjuma saw in both armies fathers, grandfathers, sons, grandsons; fathers of wives, uncles, masters; brothers companions and friends ... When Arjuna thus saw his kinsmen face to face in both lines of battle, he was overcome by grief and despair and thus he spoke with a sinking heart.
Juan Mascaro
#45. The armies of the day have chased the army of the night, Heaven and earth are filled with purity and light.
Rumi
#46. 1SA17.9 If he be able to fight with me, and to kill me, then will we be your servants: but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then shall ye be our servants, and serve us. 1SA17.10 And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.
Anonymous
#47. In the case of the armies at Fredericksburg it would have been, to say the least, very hazardous to give counter-attack, the Federal position being about as strong as ours from which we had driven them back.
James Longstreet
#48. Asking why rappers always talk about their stuff is like asking why Milton is forever listing the attributes of heavenly armies. Because boasting is a formal condition of the epic form. And those taught that they deserve nothing rightly enjoy it when they succeed in terms the culture understands.
Zadie Smith
#49. In Honolulu, I saw cats, individual cats, groups of cats, platoons of cats, companies of cats, regiments of cats, armies of cats, multitudes of cats, millions of cats, and all of them sleek, fat, lazy and sound asleep.
Mark Twain
#50. Tyrannies are overthrown by ideas. Armies are defeated by ideas. Nations, and Time itself, are overmatched by ideas.
Henry Ward Beecher
#51. They called themselves an army. They were planning on recruiting more armies. They were planning on splitting up and forming smaller cells and going into different areas, recruiting more members and just growing until they had started a full scale war in this country.
Patty Hearst
#52. Man does not have the right to develop his own mind. This kind of liberal orientation has great appeal. We must electrically control the brain. Some day armies and generals will be controlled by electrical stimulation of the brain.
Jose Manuel Rodriguez Delgado
#53. The benefit arising from moderate use of strong Liquor have been experienced in all Armies, and are not to be disputed.
George Washington
#54. God doesn't start wars. That's the greatest load of nonsense. Mankind starts wars. But then we bless armies to go and kill in God's name. Somebody's got to blow that myth out of the water.
Betty Williams
#55. You know, years ago John Calhoun said that West Point men would lead great armies ... He never thought they'd be leading them against each other. Well, if we have to meet like that, I'd rather we never meet again.
Philibert Orry
#56. Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: 'Do not march on Moscow' ... Rule 2 is: Do not go fighting with your land armies in China.
Bernard Law Montgomery
#57. There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world , and that is an idea whose time has come
Victor Hugo
#58. I tried to stay away," he said. "I've never wanted a woman this much in my life. I'd burn cities to have you. I'd fight armies. I'd commit murder to take you right now.
C.D. Reiss
#59. Growing up, others girls wanted to dance and help their mums with the cooking. I liked to play soccer with the boys. Or I'd be off on my own, tilting mirrors towards the sun in order to burn armies of ants. That was my idea of fun.
Ali Larter
#60. All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.
Abraham Lincoln
#61. The first condition of success for the League of Nations is, therefore, a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of America and France and Italy that there will be no competitive building up of fleets or armies between them.
Arthur Henderson
#62. But love is what we want, not freedom. Who then is the unluckier man? The beloved, who is given his heart's desire and must for ever after fear its loss, or the free man, with his unlooked-for liberty, naked and alone between the captive armies of the earth?
Salman Rushdie
#63. Yet each country had items that the other needed. The Arridi had reserves of red gold and iron in their deserts that the Toscans required to finance and equip their large armies. Even more important, Toscans had become inordinately fond of kafay, the rich coffee grown by the Arridi.
John Flanagan
#64. Once upon a time, the sky knew the weight of angel armies on the move, and the wind blew infernal with the fire of their wings.
Laini Taylor
#65. All societies that maintain armies maintain the belief that some things are more valuable than life itself.
Michael Billig
#66. Because while our armies are invading other countries, they are staunchly engaged in carrying out their own private, inexplicable war on all the cockroaches in the world.
Paulo Coelho
#67. When you go to war against your enemies and see horses and chariots and armies bigger than yours, do not be afraid of them. The Lord your God who brought you up out of Egypt will be with you.
Karen Kingsbury
#68. Our armies were in as much chaos in victory as theirs in defeat.
Jefferson Davis
#69. Didn't people consider what could happen if armies of farm animals united in revolt?
J.D. Robb
#70. But men are easily trained and pop out young like heated corncobs, so they are well-suited to fill armies.
Anonymous
#71. Armies are created to protect an established system, not people. In the future, an educated humanity will not stand for war.
Jacque Fresco
#72. The truth is that the fall of Napoleon is the hardest blow that our taxing system ever felt. It is now impossible to make people believe that immense fleets and armies are necessary.
William Cobbett
#73. We don't need mass armies anymore. We replace it with more effective equipment.
George W. Bush
#74. We should fund the armies of compassion, we should not discriminate against faith-based programs.
George W. Bush
#75. The basic principle that we must follow in directing the armies of the Republic is this: that they must feed themselves on war at the expense of the enemy territory.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#76. Not armies, not nations, have advanced the race; but here and there, in the course of ages, an individual has stood up and cast his shadow over the world.
Bill Vaughan
#77. In the world of intellectual property, armies of lawyers (often employed by non-practicing entities, as I mentioned in chapter 6) do battle to seize the property of others - usually small businesses that are relatively defenseless.
Sam Wilkin
#78. We can have peace and security only so long as we band together to preserve that most priceless possession, our inheritance of European blood, only so long as we guard ourselves against attack by foreign armies and dilution by foreign races.
Charles Lindbergh
#79. And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini's armies in Albania, on the Greek frontier, one wasn't sure what came next. So, don't trust the telephone. Or the newspapers. Or the radio. Or tomorrow.
Alan Furst
#80. Pope John Paul II, who has a mystique without a politique. He has no armies, no publicity directors, no propaganda machine and comes from the smallest state in all the world.
Fulton J. Sheen
#82. I believe that our Great Maker is preparing the world, in His own good time, to become one nation, speaking one language, and when armies and navies will be no longer required.
Ulysses S. Grant
#83. Men didn't build more armies and forge more weapons without having plans to use them.
Sarah J. Maas
#84. As time went by, matters improved; the armies, especially the British and French Armies, became better at staying alive while killing larger numbers of the enemy which, though hardly a matter for satisfaction in human terms, is what well-trained armies are supposed to do.
Robin Neillands
#85. We have to have armies! We have to have military power! We have to have police forces, whether it's police in a great city or police in an international scale to keep those madmen from taking over the world and robbing the world of its liberties.
Billy Graham
#86. Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh ... to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies.
Charles Horton Cooley
#87. It is a great deal to ask of a kitten, to defend a man against the armies of the dead.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#88. War had taken hold of them and would never let them go. They would never really belong to their homes again. The war was over ... but the armies were still in being.
Ernst Von Salomon
#89. Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil saith, It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be.
Francis Bacon
#90. Tom's army won a great victory, after a long and hard-fought battle. Then the dead were counted, prisoners exchanged, the terms of the next disagreement agreed upon, and the day for the necessary battle appointed; after which the armies fell into line and marched away, and Tom turned homeward alone.
Mark Twain
#91. Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.
Gordon R. Dickson
#92. That's what so strange and tragic about all of this,' he said. 'Friends fighting friends, kin against kin....It's all so wrong and unnatural. Here we are, two armies desperate to win, and all the time there's this queer....respect.....between us.
N.A. Perez
#93. Alpha Males may lead the armies of the world, but it's the Betas who actually get the shit blowed up.
Christopher Moore
#94. Where are our allies, Aelin? Where are our armies?
Sarah J. Maas
#95. He is no fool, Kublai. He understands far better than you realize. The khan's vast armies cannot return to being herdsmen, not anymore. He is riding the tiger now, my son. He dare not climb down.
Conn Iggulden
#96. That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.
Amelia Barr
#97. 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!
J.R.R. Tolkien
#98. You will never see the ends of his armies. They blanket the Earth as a storm blankets the sky, but the sun will never rise again."
I rolled my eyes. "Yeah, yeah. You demonic all think you're Shakespeare. Really nice. Good-bye." Then I took off her head and the rest of her burned up.
Courtney Allison Moulton
#99. Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.
H.G.Wells
#100. Adherence to dogmas has destroyed more armies and cost more battles than anything in war.
J. F. C. Fuller
