Browsing Topic Best Army Quotes

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.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

Courage is grace under pressure.

Urge all of your men to pray, not alone in church, but everywhere. Pray when driving. Pray when fighting. Pray alone. Pray with others. Pray by night and pray by day. Pray for the cessation of immoderate rains, for good weather for Battle.Pray for the defeat of our wicked enemy whose banner is injustice and whose good is oppression. Pray for victory. Pray for our Army, and Pray for Peace. We must march together, all out for God.

Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.

When in doubt tell the truth.

No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.

If you look at how the federal government spends our money, it’s an insurance conglomerate protected by a large, standing army.

He who neither drinks, nor smokes, nor dances, he who preaches & even occasionally practice piety, temperance and celibacy, is generally a saint, or a mahatma or more likely a humbug but he certainly won’t make a leader or for that matter a good soldier

The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

The Jesuits are a MILITARY organization, not a religious order. Their chief is a general of an army, not the mere father abbot of a monastery. And the aim of this organization is power – power in its most despotic exercise – absolute power, universal power, power to control the world by the volition of a single man. Jesuitism is the most absolute of despotisms – and at the same time the greatest and most enormous of abuses.

Cossacks are the best light troops among all that exist. If I had them in my army, I would go through all the world with them.

The Army damages itself when it doesn’t live up to its own values.

A rational army would run away.

Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

Get the hell out of my way!

You cannot be buried in obscurity: you are exposed upon a grand theater to the view of the world. If your actions are upright and benevolent, be assured they will augment your power and happiness.

Diversity in counsel, unity in command.

I can’t see how a single man could spend his time to better advantage than in the Marines.

The general of a large army may be defeated, but you cannot defeat the determined mind of a peasant.

I sometimes think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts – a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments.

Courage is the standing army of the soul which keeps it from conquest, pillage, and slavery.

The government is a functionary of the corporations – and there’s nothing new about that. You can find people in the 1930s talking about the army basically working for Wall Street in all of these countries [it invades].

When the child has reached manhood he is thoroughly saturated with the belief that he is chosen by the Lord himself to defend his country against the attack or invasion of any foreigner. It is for that purpose that we are clamoring for a greater army and navy, more battleships and ammunition.