army quotes

“I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.”

— Alexander the Great

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

— Winston Churchill

“One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.”

— Victor Hugo

“An army marches on its stomach.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“When an army unit returns from service in Iraq or Afghanistan, it barely gets a breather before it begins training for its next deployment. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells.”

— Paul McCartney

“I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.”

— Colin Powell

“An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.”

— Thomas Paine

“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

“Many of our soldiers are stationed at Camp Coyote just south of the Iraqi border. This is how you know we have a strong army, when you can actually tell your enemy exactly where your camp is and what its name is.”

— Jon Stewart

“In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.”

— Joseph Stalin

“Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.”

— Joseph Stalin

“Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.”

— John Steinbeck

“The army is the true nobility of our country. ”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“I can't expect loyalty from the army if I do not give it.”

— George Marshall