Famous Quotes & Sayings

Myles Munroe

A leader can transform an army of frightened people into fearless people.

Milton Friedman

Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion - the technique of the army and of the modern totalitarian state. The other is voluntary cooperation of individuals - the technique of the marketplace.

Milton Friedman

Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.

Milton Friedman

Richard Nixon was a very intelligent and able man. And he had the right ideas. But he did not have the adherence to principles that [Ronald] Reagan had. He did some very good things. We owe to Richard Nixon the volunteer army - he got rid of the draft. And that was a major increase in freedom.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

I went into the army worth a million and a half dollars, and came out a beggar.

Marquis de Lafayette

If you were lost for America, there is nobody who could keep the army and the revolution [going] for six months.

Niklaus Wirth

The belief that complex systems require armies of designers and programmers is wrong. A system that is not understood in its entirety, or at least to a significant degree of detail by a single individual, should probably not be built.

Nicholas Sparks

After I got shot, you want to know the very first thing that entered my mind? The U.S. Mint. I am coin in the U.S. Army. Now, I have two small holes in me. I'm no longer perfectly culled. Do you want to know the very last thing that entered my mind, You.

Natan Sharansky

Just as the 99% of Soviet citizens who supported the Soviet regime in 1985 was no indication of what the people inside the USSR really thought, the army of true believers that we think we see in the Arab world is an illusion.

Muhammad Ali

But when I looked at a lot of the questions they had on them army tests, I just didn't know the answers. I don't even know how to start after finding the answers. That's all.

Muhammad Ali

So I didn't pass. It was the army's decision that they didn't want me to go into the service. They're the boss. I don't want to say no whole lot about it.

Muhammad Ali

I strongly object to the fact that so many newspapers have given the American public and the world the impression that I have only two alternatives in taking this stand: either I go to jail or go to the Army. There is another alternative and that alternative is justice. If justice prevails, if my Constitutional rights are upheld, I will be forced to go neither to the Army nor jail. In the end I am confident that justice will come my way for the truth must eventually prevail.

Mitch Leigh

I was in the army, and I had given up the thought of being a composer.

Publilius Syrus

He who lives only for himself is truly dead to others.

Joseph Stalin

It takes a brave man to be a coward in the Red Army.

Joseph Stalin

Our Red Army now needs IL-2 aircraft like the air it breathes, like the bread it eats.

Joseph Stalin

The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic

Joseph Stalin

Ah, these diplomats! What chatterboxes! There's only one way to shut them up - cut them down with machine guns. Bulganin, go and get me one!

Patrick Ness

"No," he says, taking us both in. "No, no, no. You've come farther than most people on this planet will in their lifetimes. You've overcome obstacles and dangers and things that should've killed you. You've outrun an army and a madman and deadly illness and seen things most people will never see. How do you think you could have possibly come this far if you didn't have hope?"

I think a lot of concern of the people in the north is that one hears constant reports in talking to them is about militarisation and the presence of the army, the entry of the army into civic life, into the economy, the lack of a political settlement.

Leopold Trepper

Week after week, the heads of Red Army Intelligence received updates on the Wehrmacht's preparations.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Ability without honor is useless.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Courage is virtue which champions the cause of right.

Margaret Deland

Nobody who is somebody looks down on anybody.

Server consolidation is the most obvious, long-standing use case, but virtualization is like a Swiss army knife. You can use it in a number of different situations.

Richard Boucher

so-called National Liberation Army, which has threatened civilians and deliberately puts civilians into jeopardy.

Donald Rumsfeld

As you know, you have to go to war with the Army you have, not the Army you want.

Kenneth Bacon

The KLA (Kosovo Liberation Army) is responding, but it's basically trying to get out of the way, to retreat to the hills and preserve itself. The bulk of the fighting is at the instigation of the Yugoslav forces.

Eli Wallach

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

B. C. Forbes

The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.

Mel Brooks

I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.

Mel Brooks

There's an army story in me, and I think there's a WWII Brooks film somewhere.

Rachel Caine

Rambo was a Green Beret," Hannah said. "Please. We eat those army boys for breakfast.