Quotes by Army We don't need mass armies anymore. We replace it with more effective equipment. George W. Bush equipmentarmyneeds The army of relief and other subsidy recipients will continue to grow, and the solvency of the government will become increasingly un tenable, as long as part of the population can vote to force the other part to support it. Henry Hazlitt armygovernmentlong The President may indeed in one respect resemble the commander of an army in peace, but in another and more essential sense he resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek. He must sooner or later be convinced that a perpetual calm is as little to his purpose as a perpetual hurricane, and that without headway the ship can arrive nowhere. Henry Adams armypresidentsea The few who profit from the labor of the masses want to organize the workers into an army which will protect the interests of the capitalists. Helen Keller profitarmywant We fought a military war; our opponents fought a political one. We sought physical attrition; our opponents aimed for our psychological exhaustion. In the process we lost sight of one of the cardinal maxims of guerrilla war: the guerrilla wins if he does not lose. The conventional army loses if it does not win. The North Vietnamese used their armed forces the way a bull-fighter uses his cape to keep us lunging in areas of marginal political importance. Henry A. Kissinger armymilitarywar Public values are not only under attack in the United States and elsewhere but appear to have become irrelevant just as those spaces that enable an experience of the common good are now the object of disdain by right-wing and liberal politicians, anti-public intellectuals and an army of media pundits. Henry Giroux armymediawings It turns out one of my ancestors fought in the Continental Army, so I was inducted into the Sons of the American Revolution. Henry Louis Gates revolutionarmyson An all-volunteer army is best suited to fight the new wars of the 21st century. George W. Bush armyfightingwar The Western concept of democracy is based on the idea that the loser of an election has the possibility next time round of being the winner. But in the case of an ethnically or religiously divided country, in which minorities don't live peacefully together, this necessary balance can't be properly guaranteed by democracy. When each ethnic group arms itself, it is not surprising that the army of a new state is viewed by part of the population as an ideological militia. Henry A. Kissinger armycountryideas Courage is the standing army of the soul which keeps it from conquest, pillage, and slavery. Henry Van Dyke armysoulcourage Everyone is now considered a potential terrorist, providing a rational for both the government and private corporations to spy on anybody, regardless of whether they have committed a crime. Surveillance is supplemented by a growing domestic army of baton-wielding police forces who are now being supplied with the latest military equipment. Henry Giroux armygovernmentmilitary Be heroes in an army of construction. Helen Keller constructionarmyhero These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body; or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals. Herbert Read groupsarmyliterature On October 18, 1941, I suddenly received a mandate from His Majesty to form a new cabinet. This was completely unexpected, and when I was summoned to the Imperial Palace I thought I would be questioned on the army's point of view Hideki Tojo armywould-beviews Fasal liked to fight; Jiaan was good at planning. Together, Jiaan thought sourly, they almost made a whole officer. And if you added Jiaan's eighteen years to Fasal's seventeen, you had someone old enough to command an army as well. Hilari Bell armyfightingyears Hollywood continues to present the US army as being the good guys, always defeating the aliens or foreigners. Hideo Kojima hollywoodarmyguy But didn't you say you were satisfied with your life?" "Word games," I dismissed. "Every army needs a flag. Haruki Murakami armygamesneeds Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army! Hilaire Belloc armyblowwriting Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight. But roaring Bill, who killed him, thought it right. Hilaire Belloc armyfightingmilitary I suppose I could have called in the whole of the Army, but what was the use? All I had to do was call in Main Street itself. Herbert Hoover main-streetarmyuse«3435363738394041424344»
