Top 28 Regiments Quotes

#1. I have been a soldier all my life. I have commanded companies, I have commanded regiments. I have commanded divisions. And I have commanded even more. But there are no fifteen thousand men i the world that can go across that ground.

James Longstreet

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#2. At the outbreak of the war it was found very difficult to raise infantry in Texas, as no Texan walks a yard if he can help it. Many mounted regiments were therefore organized, and afterwards dismounted.

Arthur Fremantle

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#3. We have regiments as innumerable as the sands ... And arsenals as uncountable as the stars.

A.G. Howard

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#4. The heads of regiments are required to see that the troops join in prayer morning and evening as far as the service will permit.

Toussaint Louverture

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#5. In warlike pomp, with banners flowing, The regiments of autumn stood: I saw their gold and scarlet glowing From every hillside, every wood.

Henry Van Dyke

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#6. Let the Unions become engines for the working people to right their wrongs. Not benefit societies, or burial clubs. Let the Unions become civilian regiments to fight in the cause of the people.

Richard Llewellyn

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#7. Every pioneer and musician who could carry a musket went into the ranks. Even the sick and foot-sore, who could not keep up in the march, came up as soon as they could find their regiments, and took their places in line of battle, while it was battle, indeed.

Joshua Chamberlain

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#8. We organized First and Second Volunteer Defense Gunners of Free Luna-two regiments so that First could snub lowly Second and Second could be jealous of First.

Robert A. Heinlein

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#9. We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments?

Robert Ardrey

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#10. 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

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#11. Finished their compulsory training under universal service and were between the ages of twenty-three and thirty-four were classed as reserves. Upon mobilization the youngest classes filled out the regular army units to war strength; the others were formed into reserve regiments,

Barbara W. Tuchman

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#12. History is reticent about women who were common soldiers, who bore arms, belonged to regiments, and took part in battles on the same terms as men, though hardly a war has been waged without women soldiers in the ranks.

Stieg Larsson

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#13. PART TWO I IN October 1805 the Russian army was occupying the villages and towns of the Archduchy of Austria, and yet other regiments freshly arriving from Russia were settling near the fortress of Braunau and burdening the inhabitants on whom they were quartered. Braunau

Leo Tolstoy

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#14. THE SUMMER OF 1863 marked a crucial transformation in the Union war effort - the organization and deployment of black regiments that would eventually amount to 180,000 soldiers, a substantial proportion of eligible black males.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

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#15. So many men have so many times predicted the time of the end of the Rebellion, and been mistaken, that I will not do so now; but I can say it will be very soon, if the old regiments are filled up.

Ambrose Burnside

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#16. In the department of--but it is better not to mention the department. There is nothing more irritable than departments, regiments, courts of justice, and, in a word, every branch of public service.

Nikolai Gogol

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#17. Floyd did not accept the blame for his defeat. He blamed his fellow general Henry Wise for not committing some of his regiments to the battle. Wise reacted to the charge by calling Floyd "that bullet-hit son of a bitch.

Clint Johnson

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#18. We have two companies of Marines running rampant all over the northern half of this island, and three Army regiments pinned down in the southwestern corner, doing nothing. What the hell is going on?

John W. Vessey Jr.

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#19. What he's really saying is: Please be a human being. With a life so full of rules and regiments, it's so easy to forget that's what they are. She knows - she sees - how often compassion takes a back seat to expediency.

Neal Shusterman

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#20. There are no bad regiments, there are only bad officers.

William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim

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#21. When temptations march monotonously in regiments, one waits for to pass.

Frank Moore Colby

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#22. There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints. Victorious historians rule where good or evil lies.

Glen Cook

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#23. "The duke stopped beside Maddy's chair. He turned to Mr. Pember and in the sort of tone that could command regiments, uttered. "Cat."

Laura Kinsale

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#24. If you think we can't change the world, it just means you're not one of those who will.

Jacque Fresco

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#25. Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He'd rather not sign His own name.

Anatole France

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#26. Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane

Emily Dickinson

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#27. Our toil is sweet with thankfulness, Our burden is our boon; The curse of earth's gray morning is The blessing of its noon.

John Greenleaf Whittier

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#28. The very fact that doctrine is hewn from bitter controversy and tested through time is sufficient reason to make them a focus of theology.

Stanley Hauerwas

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