502 Army Quotes for You to Enjoy

My Mother is Swedish and my Father is Scottish, he played for Charlton in the 1960's and was in the Army, he captained the British forces team. We then moved to S.A. because a lot of players did that at the time. Richard Gough

Time Army Mother Father Charlton He Forces Because Lot Scottish Did Moved Then Swedish Team Played Players British

I spent 24 years in the United States Army. Richard Ojeda

Army Spent States Years United United States

I was born in Munich, and my father was stationed in Salzburg. For the first three years of my life, I lived in Austria back when the American Army was still in Austria. I grew up subsequently in posts around the country around veterans. Rick Atkinson

The spring of 1942 was given over to a very impassioned, strategic debate about where we should first attack in counterpunching against the Germans and Italians. The British argued very persuasively on the part of Winston Churchill, prime minister, that this was a very green American Army, green soldiers, green commanders. Rick Atkinson

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That was a pretty fine Army that we had in 1965. By 1973, it was in tatters. It was a disgrace to the country and to itself, to its own heritage, really. So it's, you know, the Army belongs to all 307 million of us. It is our common possession, it's our common heritage. As goes the Army, so goes the republic. Rick Atkinson

Racial rhetoric has been entwined with government from the start, all the way back to when the enemy was not Obamacare but the Grand Army of the Republic (and further in the past than that: Thomas Jefferson, after all, was derided as 'the Negro President'). Rick Perlstein

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Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining army has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure. Robert A. Cook

When I was at Cambridge in the early fifties, there was a school nearby for training Army officers in Russian, and some imaginative genius came up with the idea of putting on Russian plays with the students to improve their language skills. Robert Gottlieb

The American Army has supplied, assigned a very capable man to me, to help me, bring me to military justice. I don't think I need no civilians. All I want to do is clear myself with the American Army. Robert Jenkins

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Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into a system. Robert Musil

Army People World Philosophers System Locking Subjugate Who Disposal Violence

The East India Company's domination of the Indian economy was based on its private army. Robert Trout

Army East India Indian Economy Private Domination Company Based

My own life changed when my father returned from his second combat tour in Vietnam. When he came home after almost a year in Army hospitals, he weighed less than half of what he did when he left. I watched the agonizing recovery, and that experience was on my mind when I was asked to come to VA. Robert Wilkie

Life Home Army Experience Father Mind Half Year Own Changed My Own Recovery Hospitals Tour Weighed He Almost Combat Come Returned Came His Left Than Did After Asked Vietnam Less Agonizing VA Second Watched

In 1982, Israel began an invasion across its northern border, seeking to root out elements of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The Israeli military wreaked destruction all the way up to Beirut and forced the P.L.O. out of Lebanon. It also defeated the Syrian Army and, particularly, the Air Force wherever it engaged them. Ronen Bergman

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In Israel's short history, army commanders and the heads of the intelligence agencies have often advocated the use of force and in many cases showed contempt for the law and human rights. Political leaders have typically been more measured. Ronen Bergman

History Rights Army Intelligence Law Political Human Rights Cases More Leaders Heads Contempt Force Israel Been Political Leaders Intelligence Agencies Often Human Short Agencies Use Measured Many

The whole point of being in the Army is wanting to get killed, wanting to test yourself to the limits. Now you have to fly 15,000ft above the war zone to avoid getting hit. I don't think there is any point in having wars if that's how you're going to behave. It's pathetic. All this whining! Rupert Everett

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You could eat sushi off my bookshelf. My cleaning regime is like a battleground. I'm Genghis Khan and my cleaning products are my Mongolian army and I take no prisoners. The rest of my life is an experiment in chaos so I like to keep my flat neat. Ryan Adams

I was brought up by an Episcopalian father and Presbyterian mother in nondenominational Army chapels all over the world and never really had much religious experience. Sally Quinn

Army Experience World Mother Father Religious Religious Experience Brought Never Had Over Up Much Episcopalian Really Presbyterian

You cannot defeat Islamic State with airstrikes only. It's necessary to cooperate with ground troops, and the Syrian army is the most efficient and powerful ground force to fight the Islamic State. Sergei Lavrov

You Army Fight Defeat State Syrian Only Troops Powerful Most Force Islamic Efficient Cannot Ground Cooperate Necessary

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