Armies Quotations

A handful of men, inured to war, proceed to certain victory, while on the contrary, numerous armies of raw and undisciplined troops are but multitudes of men dragged to the slaughter.

No one has the right to ignite a war and lead an occupation and armies to conquer people, invading them and make them suffer all kinds of torture, murder, expulsion, displacement, bombing and terrorism by different lethal prohibited weapons and then come and speak as the savior of the people or a defender of their rights.

For a long time, it was believed that war was waged by armies which could not be identified with the nation itself. Professional soldiers took upon themselves the job of defending national interests, and it was understood that the war affected only them; the country itself went on living and working.

Now when the two armies met, many and fierce were the combats waged between them, and blows were given and received, and swords flashed and showers of arrows descended on all sides.

It's with them that we have constituted a liberation front and brought our logistic support to armies to help their countries come out of colonialism and establish a national internal regime.

The first condition of success for the League of Nations is, therefore, a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of America and France and Italy that there will be no competitive building up of fleets or armies between them.

The armies, the difference of all of those armies that had been fighting each other and the Taliban took advantage of that to rule over the whole country.

The Polish freedom movement of 1968 lost its confrontation with police violence; the Prague Spring was crushed by the armies of five Warsaw Pact members. But in both countries, 1968 gave birth to a new political consciousness.

The majority of soldiers and officers of the Soviet Army and the allied armies treated the local population humanely.

For me, in a world full of armies of stylists and makeup artists, what I think truly makes a fashion icon is how a girl dresses when she's off duty and she has to put her own looks together - no small challenge!

At one time in the history of the Americas, weapons and armies were associated with liberty and independence, and with new opportunities for our peoples. At one time in the history of the Americas, there were liberating armies.

Washington has incentivized the militarization of local police precincts by using federal dollars to help municipal governments build what are essentially small armies - where police departments compete to acquire military gear that goes far beyond what most of Americans think of as law enforcement.

Look, this is what we are built for. You've got mundane days in the business and then days like this when all your work and planning are put to the test. We've got two small armies in two different parts of the world.

Simple and brave, his faith awoke, Ploughmen to struggle with their fate; Armies won battles when he spoke, And out of Chaos sprang the state.

Nato today faces greater threats to its long-term future than it ever did at the height of the Cold War. Now is the time to replace immobile armies with more flexible, rapid response forces.

I have ... been uplifted by the extraordinary power of the American heart -- by those armies of compassion, who are willing to cross town or cross the globe to minister to those they've never met and will never see again.

But they were, all of them, deceived, for another Ring was made. In the land of Mordor, in the fires of Mount Doom, the Dark Lord Sauron forged in secret a master Ring, to control all others. And into this Ring he poured his cruelty, his malice and his will to dominate all life. ""One Ring to rule them all."" One by one, the Free Lands of Middle Earth fell to the power of the Ring. But there were some who resisted. A Last Alliance of Men and Elves marched against the armies of Mordor and on the slopes of Mount Doom, they fought for the freedom of Middle Earth. Victory was near. But the power of the Ring could not be undone.

If women are being oppressed in Egypt or children are being forced to join armies in the Congo, for example, it is not only acceptable but wonderful for Americans to be concerned, outraged, and active.

I want to thank my friend T. D. Jakes for rallying the armies of compassion to help somebody like the mayor,

Just as there isn't one Iraqi people, there isn't one Iraqi army. We won't be arming a national army, but armies that are loyal to three different groups.

Standing armies can never consist of resolute robust men; they may be well-disciplined machines, but they will seldom contain men under the influence of strong passions, or with very vigorous faculties.

We have caused the guns to fall silent. We have caused the armies to withdraw. There are large numbers of IFOR troops in an around Sarajevo and the suburbs. We cannot guarantee individual safety to every Serb living in Sarajevo,

We are worried about the continued mobilization of both armies facing each other,

We can train Iraqi soldiers to combat insurgencies while respecting human rights, as we have trained armies in the Philippines and Latin America.

When I slept, armies of footnotes marched across my dreams in close-order drill.

Within forty eight hours the concentration of both armies will take place on a field within view and a great battle will be fought.

Didn't I tell you, Don Quixote, sir, to turn back, for they were not armies you were going to attack, but flocks of sheep?

Emperors and armies come and go, ... but unless they leave new ideas in their wake, they are of passing historic consequence. The short list of intellectuals who have materially advanced the betterment of civilization unquestionably includes Adam Smith.

It would take two armies and two naval bases to keep me from playing Dallas,

These wise armies of the gods, having the sun as their ensign, shall conquer our enemies! Hail!

Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.

Dear Chief: I had a feeling that at the very close of today's Conference we may have fitted Matthew Arnold's closing lines in 'Dover Beach' wherein he refers to those 'Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight / Where ignorant armies clash by night.'

This is the way cults recruit. To a certain extent ... this is the way armies recruit.

There was a lot of scratching and clawing going on. It was like two armies of ants crawling over each other at a picnic.

As we've seen, deploying large armies abroad won't always be our best offense. Countries typically don't want foreign soldiers in their cities and towns.

Even without your participation all the warriors standing arrayed in the opposing armies shall cease to exist.

The best peacekeeper is a well-trained soldier, and we would have liked to see some of the governments with capacity, with good armies and well-trained soldiers to participate,

The two armies have maintained constant exchanges at high levels, among institutes and for navy vessel visits

armies on both sides remain mobilized ... and both sides need to continue to seek to lower tension.

I have too much stuff!, ... It's all spread over different locations and attics. I recently moved out of London and had to bus 30-40 crates of toys to storage in Ireland. I'm not the kind to keep things in their packaging; I have to have get them out, set them up and battle. For me this requires vast armies so I have to buy numerous multiples of most of the stuff. I have fond memories of digging Sarlacc pits in the garden and burying figures. A shame they didn't grow into trees 'cause I lost a lot of Boba Fett s doing that.

In the case of the armies at Fredericksburg it would have been, to say the least, very hazardous to give counter-attack, the Federal position being about as strong as ours from which we had driven them back.

Iran's most formidable modern leader, Reza Shah Pahlavi, was obsessed with the idea of building a steel mill, but in 1941, soon after he assembled all the components, Allied armies invaded Iran, and the project had to be abandoned.

Gray Flannel really deals with two big issues. The first is how workaholics are divorced from their family and second, the illegitimate children that armies always leave around the world.

The images that have been given about human cloning are images of fading copies or armies of clones or defects of animals. That's all we have shown the public.

The climax is the place where the opposing forces in your story finally clash. This is true whether those opposing forces are two armies or two values inside a character's soul.

Mobs will never do to govern states or command armies

When armies are mobilized and issues joined, the man who is sorry over the fact will win

And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not the invasion of ideas.

Ran on embattled armies clad in iron, / And weaponless himself, / Made arms ridiculous.

A democratic party, a part of a democratic West, does not, should not and cannot have private armies and cannot be involved in criminality and violence, ... and this is, I think as the sisters have pointed out, the golden opportunity for them to indicate once and for all and finally that they are going to separate themselves from that type of support.

They were women then My mama's generation Husky of voice Stout of step With fists as well as Hands How they battered down Doors And ironed Starched white Shirts How they led Armies Headragged Generals Across mined Fields Booby trapped