Army Quotes

None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.
Thomas Jefferson

Important, Keep, Nation

Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.
Winston Churchill

Less, Church, Suit

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.
Alexander the Great

Afraid, Lion, Sheep

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
Robert H. Schuller

Positive, Thought, Thoughts

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Success, Leadership, Integrity

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
George Washington

Success, Small, Soul

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.
George Washington

Nothing, Another, Service

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
Edward Everett

Education, Liberty, Standing

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.
Daniel Defoe

Head, Lion, Sheep

I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.
Robert E. Lee

Able, While, Congress

An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
Thomas Paine

Cannot, Soldiers, Principles

An army marches on its stomach.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Stomach, Marches

It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.
Sun Tzu

Great, Wise, Achieve

Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations.
Sun Tzu

Secret, Liberal, Matters

Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.
Milton Friedman

Freedom, Friend, Liberty

Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move.
Sun Tzu

War, Secret, Move

One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
Victor Hugo

Cannot, Ideas, Resist

The army is the true nobility of our country.
Napoleon Bonaparte

True, Country, Nobility

I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.
Billy Connolly

Wanted, Red, Knives

When an army unit returns from service in Iraq or Afghanistan, it barely gets a breather before it begins training for its next deployment.
Hillary Clinton

Before, Training, Service

The sergeant is the Army.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men.
Andy Rooney

Men, Business, Young

Those who served, and those who continue to serve in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard took an oath to uphold and protect the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic, and we can never forget the importance of their commitment to our Nation.
Robin Hayes

Forget, Nation, Against

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
Joseph Stalin

Courage, Takes, Advance

I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.
Colin Powell

School, College, Public

No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.
Calvin Coolidge

Peace, Time, War

Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.
Joseph Stalin

Everyone, Far, System

I can't understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preaching hate, to fear God that's not religion, that's not helping humanity, that's organizing an army to defeat somebody.
Mojo Nixon

Religion, God, Fear

The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.
Henry A. Kissinger

Win, Lose, Loses

The moment you enlist in the army of God, you personally become a target. You need to remember that if you're living for and walking with Jesus Christ, the powers of darkness are aligned against you.
Walter Martin

God, Jesus, Remember

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