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cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves." | |
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| "An army marches on its stomach." | |
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Napoléon Bonaparte
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| "An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by
a sheep." | |
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Proverb
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| "An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time
has come." | |
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Victor Hugo
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| "Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the
Boy Scouts have adult supervision." | |
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Blake Clark
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| "Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers
formidable, procures success to the weak, and esteem to all." | |
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George Washington
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| "Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing
army." | |
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Edward Everett
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| "Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army
of intellectual liberty." | |
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Robert Green Ingersoll
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| "Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man
who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it." | |
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Ted Morgan
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| "I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army
of 100 lions led by a sheep." | |
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Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
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| "I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as
attend to all the details of the army. Attributed to President Abraham
Lincoln by General James B. Fry.?Allen Thorndike Rice, Reminiscences of
Abraham Lincoln, chapter 22, p. 393 (1886). This supposedly had been part
of Lincoln"s response to a young volunteer soldier who had come to
Lincoln"s office asking his help with a grievance. The story has been
repeated in numerous books on Lincoln: Alexander K. McClure, "Abe"
Lincoln"s Yarns and Stories, p. 162 (1904); Ida M. Tarbell, The Life of
Abraham Lincoln, vol. 2, p. 153 (1917); and Caroline T. Harnsberger, The
Lincoln Treasury, p. 14 (1950)." | |
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Abraham Lincoln
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| "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." | |
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Daniel DeFoe
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| "REAR, n. In American military matters, that exposed part of the army
that is nearest to Congress." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "Skill and confidence are an unconquered army." | |
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George Herbert
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| "Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come." | |
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W. I. E. Gates
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| "The Army has carried the American ... ideal to its logical
conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of
race, creed and color, but also on ability." | |
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Thomas Andrew (Tom) Lehrer
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| "The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or
composite, are good laws and good arms; and as there cannot be good laws
where the state is not well armed, it follows that where they are well
armed they have good laws." | |
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Niccoló Machiavelli
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| "The Long March The Red Army is not afraid of hardship on the march,
the long march. Ten thousand waters and a thousand mountains are nothing.
The Five Sierras meander like small waves, the summits of Wumeng pour on
the plain like balls of clay. Cliffs under clouds are warm and washed
below by the River Gold Sand. Iron chains are cold, reaching over the Tatu
River. The far snows of Minshan only make us happy and when the army pushes
through, we all laugh. October 1935" | |
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Mao Tse-tung
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| "They may attack me with an army of six hundred syllogisms; and if I
do not recant, they will proclaim me a heretic." | |
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Desiderius Erasmus
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