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.

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.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

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

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.

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

Courage is grace under pressure.

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.

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.

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.

A rational army would run away.

Get the hell out of my way!

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.

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.

When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.

Drinking is the soldier’s pleasure.

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

In battles two things are usually required of the Commander-in-Chief: to make a good plan for his army and, secondly, to keep a strong reserve.

The corporation as it now exists, with armies of salaried workers in identical cubes, will gradually disappear.

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

Nothing gives us greater pride than the importance of India’s scientific and engineering colleges, or the army of Indian scientists at organizations such as Microsoft and NASA. Our temples are not the god-encrusted shrines of Varanasi, but Western scientific institutions like Caltech and MIT, and magazines like ‘Nature’ and ‘Scientific American.

It is certainly of great importance for a general to keep his plans secret; and Frederick the Great was right when he said that if his night-cap knew what was in his head he would throw it into the fire. That kind of secrecy was practicable in Frederick’s time when his whole army was kept closely about him; but when maneuvers of the vastness of Napoleon’s are executed, and war is waged as in our day, what concert of action can be expected from generals who are utterly ignorant of what is going on around them?

Shall I pass by and leave you lying there because of the expedition you led against Greece, or shall I set you up again because of your magnanimity and your virtues in other respects?

Do not ever threaten an Afghan with violence. We will rise as one and we will face every threat the way we have taken on thousands of previous armies and conquerors.

An army of philosophers would not be sufficient to change the nature of error and to make it truth.

Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.

Agriculture is not crop production as popular belief holds – it’s the production of food and fiber from the world’s land and waters. Without agriculture it is not possible to have a city, stock market, banks, university, church or army. Agriculture is the foundation of civilization and any stable economy.

Over the shoulders and slopes of the dune I saw the white daisies go down to the sea, A host in the sunshine, an army in June, The people God sends us to set our heart free.

In Burma, under the present Constitution, the Army can always take over all parts of government if they think this is necessary. so until the Army comes out clearly and consistently in support of the democratic process we cannot say that it’s irreversible. But I don’t think we need fear a reversal too much either.