Quotes: Army

When I read that the British army had landed thirty-two thousand troops – and I had realized, not very long before, that Philadelphia only had thirty thousand people in it – it practically lifted me out of my chair.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

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

As a consequence of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the officer corps of the old army became part of this class, as did that part of the younger generation who, in the old Germany, would have become officers or civil servants.

I’ve always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.

Indecision is a virus that can run through an army and destroy its will to win or even to survive.

Debt is such a powerful tool, it is such a useful tool, it’s much better than colonialism ever was because you can keep control without having an army, without having a whole administration.

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

This girl at 17 really led an army, this girl at 19 really burned at the stake by her own choice. And you sit there and you want to figure out why did she make these choices? How did she live such a life?

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.