Quotes on the topic: Army


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After all it was my father who founded the Burmese army and I do have a sense of warmth towards the Burmese army.


Actors are like Swiss Army knives - we're ready to use any lever at any moment. But I learned long ago that, unfortunately, this industry only sees the one thing sticking out that they know us from, and that's the only thing they can imagine.


There may be a hundred thousand men in an army, who are all equally free; but they only are naturally most fit to be commanders or leaders, who most excel in the virtues required for the right performance of those offices.


If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.


Israel is an independent country with a large army, and it has the ability to do what it thinks is right.


When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression.


Mr. Hussein began building Ghazalia in the early 1980s as a home for army officers and other members of his Baath Party. Concrete mansions with pillars and domes are common in the southern half of the district.


Some consider the removal of Dr. Mohammed Morsi a coup by the army against an elected president. Others treat it as the second revolution, or the continuation of the January 25, 2011, revolution.


The bottom line is the Kiss Army is growing by leaps and bounds.


I knew some of the army quite well.


All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.


Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse of prisoners and the fact that, army people might be made to pay a price, but who are the privatized torturers accountable too?


The European Army is our long-term goal. But first we have to strengthen the European Defence Union.


I think my mum wanted me to join the army or something, or become a surveyor - something with good career prospects.


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


The Romans thought of themselves as the chosen people, yet they built the greatest army on Earth by recruiting warriors from any background.


On the day when two army corps may mutually annihilate each other in a second, probably all civilized nations will recoil with horror and disband their troops.


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.


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


The United States isn't a dictatorship ruling with a brutal army and an iron fist, so our police departments must understand that they are there to serve and protect us - all of us. And when they do commit crimes, they must be arrested and prosecuted like anyone else, bottom line.