They’re not shooting me for deserting the United Stated Army – thousands of guys have done that. They’re shooting me for bread I stole when I was 12 years old. – Eddie Slovik
If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army. – Frederick the Great
So the whole of war, when you look at it is probably run by professional soldiers, and the rest of them are just recruits, or people who are just forced to join the army. – Gerald Scarfe
The government’s only functions are to protect the rights of the individual; therefore, you need a police force and an army. – Neil Peart
A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple. – Philip Roth
I’m still a reservist. We have three drilling reservists in the Senate. Senator Graham serves in the Air Force, Senator Brown serves in the Army, and I serve in the Navy. – Mark Kirk
For all the failures of naval, air and army defense, the men who died at Pearl Harbor and in the Philippines would not die in vain. – Nigel Hamilton
The Pakistani Army, the Frontier Corps, the Frontier Scouts and Police have carried out quite impressive counter-insurgency operations. – David Petraeus
It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions. – Daniel Defoe
We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells. – Paul McCartney
You can’t talk about defeating insurgencies in the same way that you can with a conventional army. – Des Browne
It was always that detail that drove me. Ever since I was a little kid, I used to get into the nitty gritty… when I was drawing army tanks or monsters, I’d do every nut and rivet, and I’d do every scale on the dragon’s back. It was just the way I was built. – Graeme Base
Obama did organize a great large number of people and many enthusiastic people, what’s called in the press ‘Obama’s Army.’ But the army is supposed to take instructions, not to implement, to introduce, develop programs and call on its own candidate to implement them. That’s critical. – Noam Chomsky
Just look at the Old Testament. They didn’t go out with the army first. They sent the musicians out. – Michael W. Smith
European Muslims need to feel ownership of security, rather than viewing the police as an occupying army. – David Ignatius
Israel is in the grip of a ghetto mentality. We have a powerful army. We have the atomic bomb. But the psychology of what comes out of Israel has the tone of the Warsaw Ghetto. – Daniel Barenboim
This stereotype that haredim don’t serve in the army and contribute is false and always was. – Eli Yishai
It is absolutely bedrock to the British Army’s philosophy that a commanding officer is responsible for what goes on within his command. – Mike Jackson
When at just 27 years old, Qaddafi, colonel in the Libyan army, inspired by his Egyptian colleague Abdel Nasser, overthrew King Idris I in 1969, he applied important revolutionary measures such as agrarian reform and the nationalization of oil. – Fidel Castro
An army that fought and won a war decisively finds it even more difficult to undergo change. – Eric Shinseki
I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar. – Damian Lewis
Dublin dwindles so beautifully; there is no harsh separation between it and the country. It fades away, whereas London seems to devour the country; an army of buildings come and take away a beautiful park, and you never seem to get quite out of sight of a row of houses. – George A. Moore