Famous Quotes & Sayings

Winston Churchill

Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.

Winston Churchill

We shall defend every village, every town and every city. The vast mass of London itself, fought street by street, could easily devour an entire hostile army; and we would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.

Woody Hayes

Winners are men who have dedicated their whole lives to winning.

William J. Clinton

One of the main reasons America should re-elect President Obama is that he is still committed to cooperation. He appointed Republican Secretaries of Defense, the Army and Transportation. He appointed a Vice President who ran against him in 2008.

William James

All the qualities of a man acquire dignity when he knows that the service of the collectivity that owns him needs them. If proud of the collectivity, his own pride rises in proportion. No collectivity is like an army for nourishing such pride....

William G. Boykin

Those Muslims in Americas army that stand with the Constitution, I support them, and I think we all have to.

Will Durant

Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.

Sarah Palin

After the Russian army invaded the nation of Georgia, Senator Obama's reaction was one of moral indecision and equivalence, the kind of response that would only encourage Russia's Putin to invade Ukraine next.

Sappho

Some say an army of horsemen, or infantry, A fleet of ships is the fairest thing On the face of the black earth, but I say It's what one loves.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

You may depend upon it, religion is, in its essence, the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It will alone gentilize, if unmixed with cant; and I know nothing else that will, alone. Certainly not the army, which is thought to be the grand embellisher of manners.

Ursula K. Le Guin

What good is music? None ... and that is the point. To the world and its states and armies and factories and Leaders, music says, 'You are irrelevant'; and, arrogant and gentle as a god, to the suffering man it says only, 'Listen.' For being saved is not the point. Music saves nothing. Merciful, uncaring, it denies and breaks down all the shelters, the houses men build for themselves, that they may see the sky.

Walt Whitman

I sing the body electric, The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them, They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them, And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the soul.

Robert Toombs

The day the army of Virginia allows a negro regiment to enter their lines as soldiers they will be degraded, ruined, and disgraced.

Satish Kumar

If we had adhered to the concept of connectedness, then we would not have created nuclear weapons, huge armies and global warming.

Sarah MacLean

Ralston looked down his long, elegant nose at the vile creature at his feet, and said, “You just impugned the honor of my future marchioness. Choose your seconds. I will see you at dawn.” Leaving Oxford sputtering on the ground, Ralston spun on one elegant heel to face Benedick. “When I am done with him, I am coming for your sister. And, if you intend to keep me from her, you had better have an army at your side.

William Davenant

Honor is the moral conscience of the great.

Wendell Berry

But in its de facto alliance with Caesar, Christianity connives directly in the murder of Creation. For in these days, Caesar is no longer a mere destroyer of armies, cities, and nations. He is a contradicter of the fundamental miracle of life.

Robert Musil

Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into a system.

Richard Foreman

You know, actually, I went to Yale because I wanted to stay out of the army.

Roald Dahl

Hooray!" said the Chief of the Army. "Let's blow everyone up! Bang-bang! Bang-bang!

Richard L. Evans

We need the courage to start and continue what we should do, and courage to stop what we shouldn't do.

Tacitus

The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes

Rupert Brooke

If I should die, think only this of me: that there's some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England.

Rumi

The armies of the day have chased the army of the night, Heaven and earth are filled with purity and light.

Stephen Spender

Deep in the winter plain, two armies Dig their machinery, to destroy each other. Men freeze and hunger. No one is given leave On either side, except the dead, and wounded.

Rutherford B. Hayes

I regard the inflation acts as wrong in all ways. Personally I am one of the noble army of debtors, and can stand it if others can. But it is a wretched business.

Zadie Smith

Asking why rappers always talk about their stuff is like asking why Milton is forever listing the attributes of heavenly armies. Because boasting is a formal condition of the epic form. And those taught that they deserve nothing rightly enjoy it when they succeed in terms the culture understands.