Quotes About Strong Armies

#1. [About Jews] Among other nations, the vital problems are: a good crop, extension of the boundaries, strong armies, colonies; among us, if we wish to be true to ourselves, the vital questions are: conscience, freedom, culture, ethics.

I.L. Peretz

#2. 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

#3. Ale for a tale. That's the fairest trade I know.

Adam Gidwitz

#4. Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion.

Voltaire

#5. I've been following Elsa, but I can't see Arendelle anymore.

Elise Allen

#6. I couldn't live with myself if I thought nothing could get better.

Gloria Whelan

#7. A person who is not happy with their self, dont expect them to be happy with you.

Beta Metani'Marashi

#8. The bad news is, we're all incomplete people. The good news is, Jesus loves incomplete people. And He wants us to know we can have complete joy by being secure enough in His love to reach out and love other incomplete people.

Lysa TerKeurst

#9. Are demons allergic to fashion? Am I supposed to blind them with sequins?

Sarah Alderson

#10. We all need to save money to send our kids to college, to buy our first house, and to retire. But the truth is that most of us don't save very much.

Timothy Noah

#11. Love isn't something you can just unlearn ... no matter who you are, or who you're born to, or how much it's not returned - - Elephant Girl

Jane Devin

#12. The benefit arising from moderate use of strong Liquor have been experienced in all Armies, and are not to be disputed.

George Washington

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. Rose of the desert! thou art to me
An emblem of stainless purity,
Of those who, keeping their garments white,
Walk on through life with steps aright.

David Macbeth Moir

#17. It is in disputes as in armies, where the weaker side sets up false lights, and makes a great noise, to make the enemy believe them more numerous and strong than they really are.

Jonathan Swift

#18. I-I am going to be a storm-a flame- I need to fight whole armies alone; I have ten hearts; I have a hundred arms; I feel too strong to war with mortals- BRING ME GIANTS!

Edmond Rostand

#19. There was a time I wanted to go into politics. And so all of a sudden, here I am, I guess. I'm in the thick of it.

Max Lucado

#20. the people of Lebanon' were offering a 'model' and a 'strong proof that it is not only Gaza, the West Bank and Jerusalem which Arab armies and peoples are capable of liberating, but - with one small decision and a bit of determination - [the whole of] Palestine too, from the river to the sea'.4

David Hirst

#21. We oft question and compare ... Is the journey so important or the getting there?

John McLeod