best quotations about
Army |
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Quotations
 | It takes a brave man to be a coward in the Red Army. — Joseph Stalin, 1879-1953, Soviet leader 25 likes |
 | The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him. — G. K. Chesterton, 1874-1936, English writer & critic 17 likes |
 | 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. — Alexander the Great, 356-323 BC, King of Macedon 12 likes |
 | An army marches on its stomach. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 7 likes |
 | Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. — Georges Clemenceau, 1841-1929, French Prime Minister 7 likes |
 | When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard. — Sun Tzu, c. 5th cent. BC, Chinese general & military strategist 6 likes |
 | One always abandons something in retreat. Look at Napoleon at the Beresina! He abandoned his whole army. — George Orwell, 1903-1950, British writer 6 likes |
| A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 6 likes |
 | Old soldiers never die; they just fade away. — Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964, American general 5 likes |
| The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 5 likes |
| An army which cannot be reinforced is already defeated. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 5 likes |
 | Why, you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together-- what do you get? The sum of their fears. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 5 likes |
 | Independent thinking is not encouraged in a professional Army. It is a form of mutiny. Obedience is the supreme virtue. — David Lloyd George, 1863-1945, British Prime Minister [1916-1922] 5 likes |
 | If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army. — Friedrich II, 1712-1786, Emperor of Prussia [1740-1786] 4 likes |
 | It was an inflexible maxim of Roman discipline that good soldier should dread his own officers far more than the enemy. — Edward Gibbon, 1737-1794, English historian 4 likes |
 | Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state. — Thomas Jefferson, 1749-1826, American President [1801-1809] 3 likes |
| Nothing is so contrary to military rules as to make the strength of your army known, either in the orders of the day, in proclamations, or in the newspapers. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 3 likes |
| It has been calculated by the ablest politicians that no State, without being soon exhausted, can maintain above the hundredth part of its members in arms and idleness. — Edward Gibbon, 1737-1794, English historian 3 likes |
| Diplomacy without military might is like music without instruments. — Friedrich II, 1712-1786, Emperor of Prussia [1740-1786] 2 likes |
 | There were fewer generals during the war than today, when we live in peace. — Zarko Petan, 1929-2014, Slovenian playwright & aphorist 2 likes |
 | The sound of the drum drives out thought; for that very reason it is the most military of instruments. — Joseph Joubert, 1754-1824, French author of maxims 1 likes |
 | Only bad generals need heroes. — Bertolt Brecht, 1898-1956, German writer 1 likes |
 | There are just wars. There is no just army. — André Malraux, 1901-1976, French writer & statesman 1 likes |
 | Most armies are in fact run by their sergeants — the officers are there just to give things a bit of tone and prevent warfare from becoming a mere lower-class brawl. — Terry Pratchett, 1948-2015, British writer 1 likes |
 | You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time. — Donald Rumsfeld, 1932-2021, American politician 1 likes |
 | If the military administration was well done, there would be no unknown soldier. — Louis Jouvet, 1887-1951, French actor 1 likes |
 | The war justifies the existence of the army. By destroying it. — Henri Jeanson, 1900-1970, French critic & columnist 1 likes |
 | It's no disgrace to be a private, you know. Socrates was a plain foot soldier, a hoplite. — Saul Bellow, 1914-2005, Canadian-American writer, Nobel 1976 1 likes |
 | Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved. — Martin Luther, 1483-1546, German theologian, protagonist of Reformation 1 likes |
 | The only way you get on in this profession is to have the reputation of doing what you are told as thoroughly as possible. — George S. Patton, 1885-1945, American general 1 likes |
| I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight. — George S. Patton, 1885-1945, American general 1 likes |
| You can’t run an army without profanity; and it has to be eloquent profanity. — George S. Patton, 1885-1945, American general 1 likes |
| My men can eat their belts, but my tanks have gotta have gas. — George S. Patton, 1885-1945, American general 1 likes |
 | Debase the character of soldiers and you will have nothing but the mobs of Xerxes. Exalt the character, and you will have the warriors of Alexander. — Gustave Le Bon, 1841-1931, French polymath & writer 1 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | The Generals are numerous, but not good for much! Στρατηγοί πλείονες ή βελτίονες. — Aristophanes, 445-386 BC, Ancient Greek comic playwright ‐ Acharnians 4 likes |
 | The strength of the city is the men, not the walls or the empty ships. Άνδρες πόλις και ου τείχη, ουδέ νήες ανδρών κεναί. — Thucydides, 460-394 BC, Ancient Greek historian 4 likes |
