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Without discipline the Army would just be a bunch of guys wearing the same color clothing.
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the
weak, and esteem to all.
The army ages men sooner than the law and philosophy; it exposes them more freely to
germs, which undermine and destroy, and it shelters them more completely from thought,
which stimulates and preserves.
An army of asses led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by an ass.
Therefore a victorious army first wins and then seeks battle; a defeated army first battles and
then seeks victory.
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I have got an infamous army, very weak and ill-equipped, and a very inexperienced staff.
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A great war leaves the country with three armies - an army of cripples, an army of mourners,
and an army of thieves.
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No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
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When armies are mobilized and issues joined, the man who is sorry over the fact will win.
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No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace or
insure it victory in time of war.
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One who sets the entire army in motion to chase an advantage will not attain it.
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Why can¶t they have gay people in the army? Personally, I think they are just afraid of a
thousand guys with M16s going, ³Who¶d you call a faggot?´
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Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial
raids.
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Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.
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Army life was rough. Would you believe it, they actually wanted me to pitch three times a
week.
Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult
supervision.
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Give me an army of West Point graduates and I¶ll win a battle. Give me a handful of Texas
Aggies, and I¶ll win the war.
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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An army marches on it¶s stomach.
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A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week. A pint of sweat, saves a
gallon of blood. No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other
bastards die for their country.
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Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.
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Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their
ingenuity.
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Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.
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ãead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
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Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.
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If you can't get them to salute when they should salute and wear the clothes you tell them to wear,
how are you going to get them to die for their country?
Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.
The Americans will always do the right thing... After they've exhausted all the alternatives.
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like
astrology.
Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it.... You take diplomacy
out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.
I don't know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with
sticks and stones.
If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war. Pentagon official, on why
US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War
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The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much
a war as an endless standing in line.
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this
problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly
understood.
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When the rich make war it's the poor that die.
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An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
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War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up
the gun.
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A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it
cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and
magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows
another.
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Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive factor; it is people, not things, that are
decisive. The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a
contest of human power and morale. Military and economic power is necessarily wielded by people.
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A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
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That's what an army is - a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage
that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers.
Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in
dying completely.
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been
given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to
civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable
love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would
rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the
cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
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For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards.
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For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the
enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.