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. – Alfred Nobel
The European Army is our long-term goal. But first we have to strengthen the European Defence Union. – Angela Merkel
I’ve always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives. – Billy Connolly
It won’t be a question of how well-trained or well-equipped the army is but one of the authority it serves. – Adnan Pachachi
As an active member of the Air Force, Army and Mine Warfare Caucuses, I meet with enlisted personnel and officers on a regular basis to learn more about their needs, both on the job and with their families. – Allen Boyd
In general, states do not count on pledges of ‘no more war’ from their neighbors. Israel’s army never counted on it from Egypt, for example. – Barton Gellman
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. – Adam Carolla
Ataturk sent several Turkish staff officers to Afghanistan, helped them build their own army. – Bulent Ecevit
I’m convinced that the infantry is the group in the army which gives more and gets less than anybody else. – Bill Mauldin
My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more. – Barry Humphries
I was born in East Germany, before the wall came down. We sort of escaped, I guess. I grew up all over the place. Germany, London, back and forth between Minnesota and Germany. I was sort of an army brat, but not in the army. – Falk Hentschel
I will maintain the presence of a Mexican Army, and the Navy and police in the states of the Mexican Republic, where the problem of crime has increased. – Enrique Pena Nieto
It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer. – Gore Vidal
As soldiers in Israel’s army, one of the most grueling training regimens we had to endure was a long march while carrying a comrade on a stretcher. – Naftali Bennett
By very conservative estimates, Turkish repression of Kurds in the 1990s falls in the category of Kosovo. It peaked in the early 1990s; one index is the flight of more than a million Kurds from the countryside to the unofficial Kurdish capital, Diyarbakir, from 1990 to 1994, as the Turkish army was devastating the countryside. – Noam Chomsky
My Dad was from Liverpool, and he picked it up in the army. He’d often come out with this stuff. – Mike Myers
It is in Pakistan’s own interest that the Afghan army is able to fight effectively against the Taliban, which is more likely if they continue to have American advisers at their side. – Peter L. Bergen
Ancient recipients of instant news probably couldn’t do very much about it, for instance. Xerxes would still need three months to get his army together, and he might not get home for years. – Peter Singer
Obviously, every dictator pays a great deal of attention to who is running the army. There’s always a base right outside the capitol to protect the head of government. – Elliott Abrams
I gave away two dogs years ago because I felt guilty at not being able to give them the time and attention they deserved. I now regularly feed an army of squirrels and wild birds around our house. – Mike Farrell
Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army. – Elie Wiesel
My great uncle was in ‘Dad’s Army.’ And I don’t know if Americans will know that. It was a hugely popular show in England. – Daisy Ridley
I’d come out of the army after five years as a medic. I was a medical administrator and we ran hospitals, and I was a Captain in the army at the end, in 1945. – Eli Wallach
If you’ve ever left a bag of clothes outside the Salvation Army or given to a local church drive, chances are that you’ve dressed an African. – George Packer