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Army Quotes

“The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that’s what an army is – a mob; they don’t fight with courage that’s born in them, but with courage that’s borrowed from their mass, and from their officers. But a mob without any MAN at the head of it, is BENEATH pitifulness.”

– Mark Twain

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 22. Colonel Sherburn points a gun at the mob and attacks their cowardice, saying they are only followers who borrow courage from their mass. The mob is symbolic of a bad society, as is Sherburn who has gunned down the harmless town drunkard.

Some people have a misunderstanding about the Army. Some people think, ‘Hey, you’re in the military, and everything is super-hierarchical, and you’re in an environment that is intolerable of criticism, and people don’t want frank assessments.’ I think the opposite is the case.

– H. R. McMaster

I have a whole army of pajamas.

– Heidi Klum

The responsibility of commanding the invasion fell to me, and the task was assigned to my Army Group.

– Gerd von Rundstedt

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

‘Wicked Nights’ is the story of Zacharel, the new leader of the Army of Disgrace – heavenly warriors in danger of falling from grace – and Annabelle, a human who has spent the last four years locked in an institution for the criminally insane.

– Gena Showalter

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

We are all proud of having thus contributed to the heretofore magnificent successes of our army.

– Gustav Krupp

Clive Dunn, as I understand it, retired to the south of Spain, where he worked extensively in watercolours. I don’t own any of Clive Dunn’s watercolours. I loved him in ‘Dad’s Army,’ loved him. But not enough to actually seek out his watercolour work.

– Hugh Laurie

But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for destruction, we have been transformed into an implacable army of liberation.

– George Jackson

It seems as if everybody in the country was getting impatient to get his or her particular soldier out of the Army and to upset the carefully arranged system of points for retirement which we had arranged with the approval of the Army itself.

– Henry L. Stimson

I did not destroy the 43 volumes of my diary, which report on all these events and the share I had in them; but of my own accord I handed them voluntarily to the officers of the American Army who arrested me.

– Hans Frank

My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he saluted, he killed himself.

– Henny Youngman

When an army unit returns from service in Iraq or Afghanistan, it barely gets a breather before it begins training for its next deployment.

– Hillary Clinton

It is clear that while our Army was engaged in Afghanistan and Iraq, Russia studied U.S. capabilities and vulnerabilities and embarked on an ambitious and largely successful modernization effort.

– H. R. McMaster

Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.

– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.

– Henry Kissinger

Hollywood continues to present the U.S. Army as being the good guys, always defeating the aliens or foreigners.

– Hideo Kojima

Why would it be ridiculous that Quebec has an army?

– Gilles Duceppe

I feel I’m just meant to do stop-motion. Live-action is much more glamorous to some, but it’s basically a whole army of people focused on one thing.

– Henry Selick

My mum is bright, ambitious, well read, political and very bolshie: when my dad was conscripted into the Army and posted to Libya, she convinced some general to let her go with him. I don’t know how she managed it.

– Jo Brand

I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.

– Ingmar Bergman

My vocation is more in composition really than anything else – building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.

– Jimmy Page

I never joined the army for patriotic reasons.

– Isaac Rosenberg

Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.

– Joseph Stalin

Two new reports indicate that, under Bush, the Army is overstretched and under enormous strain. The National Guard and reserves have been weakened and we are experiencing numerous recruiting problems.

– Jim Clyburn

The crises in North Korea, Iran, the Middle East, show how quickly things can change and how they can go wrong. We must be prepared. And right now the Army is not.

– Ike Skelton

I will forever be thankful to the Malawians and international community, and my professional army and army general, who said: ‘No, we will follow the constitution.’ That’s why I’m here.

– Joyce Banda

You come to our stadium and look at the aura of 100,000 people. You look up there and see an Army tank coming at you. You see it on a TV screen, it’s one thing. You see it at a movie theater, that’s something else. When that thing’s coming at you 70 feet high and 180 feet long, now that looks like a tank.

– Jerry Jones

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.

– Joseph Stalin

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