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Armies are not only for offensives. -- Bashar al-Assad
Armies are dependent on youthful male ignorance. -- Rita Mae Brown
Armies under the control of ... a sovereign State cannot bring freedom to anyone. -- Simone Weil
Armies for the preservation of peace do not exist; they exist only for the triumphant exertion of war. -- Adolf Hitler
Tyrannies are overthrown by ideas. Armies are defeated by ideas. Nations, and Time itself, are overmatched by ideas. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. -- James Madison
The Three Armies can be deprived of their commanding officer, but even a common man cannot be deprived of his purpose. -- Confucius
... the benefit arising from moderate use of strong Liquor have been experienced in all Armies, and are not to be disputed. -- George Washington
Armies are created to protect an established system, not people. In the future, an educated humanity will not stand for war. -- Jacque Fresco
Armies are a purely human invention. Most soldiers who go to war nowadays don't even do it because they're inherently aggressive. -- Frans de Waal
On the European Front the most important development of the past year has been the crushing offensive of the Great Armies of Russia... -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Armies gather in the East for the war that's soon to come. Death will march with the mark of the beast, so seek the light and walk with the Son. -- Randy Travis
We may look up to Armies for Defence, but Virtue is our best Security. It is not possible that any state should long remain free, where Virtue is not supremely honord. -- Samuel Adams
In this world we see more passion than dispassion. We see more fear than knowledge. Armies rule the world. Fear-net is happening. Consequently, everyone is raised with fear embedded in their consciousness. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Armies, though always the supporters and tools of absolute power for the time being, are always the destroyers of it too; by frequently changing the hands in which they think proper to lodge it. -- Lord Chesterfield
One of the things that most people aren't aware of when they think of the Civil War is the number of people and associated animals. (Armies) weren't mechanized. They had to rely on horses and mules. -- Gary Miller
There are limits to the smiles and scowls of diplomacy. Armies and missiles are not stopped by stiff notes of condemnation. They are held in check by strength and purpose and the promise of swift punishment. -- George W. Bush
There are guerrilla armies that make little boys kill their own families. Such acts rip out the soul and make space for beasts to grow inside. Armies need beasts, donâ??t they? Pet beasts, to do their terrible work! -- Laini Taylor
The exemplary vanguard role of the Communists is of vital importance. Communists in the Eighth Route and New Fourth Armies should set an example in fighting bravely, carrying out orders, observing discipline, doing political work and fostering internal unity and solidarity. -- Mao Zedong
You cannot build up a standing army and then throw it back into a box like tin soldiers. Armies equipped to the teeth with weapons, with highly developed instruments of murder and backed by their military interests, have their own dynamic functions. -- Emma Goldman
A lot of ideas took us to dead ends or we found the tone wasnâ??t just right. I think we discovered very quickly this wasnâ??t just a song to end The Battle of the Five Armiesâ??it was a song to say goodbye to Middle-earth. -- Billy Boyd
My favorite parts about 'The Battle of Five Armies' were the moments where you could clearly see that we were looking at New Zealand. That it wasn't done in post, it wasn't CGI, it was the beautiful, incredible creation of Mother Nature in all of her splendor. -- Evangeline Lilly
As men neither fear nor respect what has been made contemptible, all honor to him who makes oppression laughable as well as detestable. Armies cannot protect it then; and walls which have remained impenetrable to cannon have fallen before a roar of laughter or a hiss of contempt. -- Edwin Percy Whipple
We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest. -- Thomas Jefferson
Were there no uniforms, there would probably be no armies. -- Benjamin Banneker
I sincerely believe... that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies. -- Thomas Jefferson
Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come. -- Victor Hugo
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. -- Victor Hugo
By fighting a limited, defensive war, America permitted the enemy to endlessly re-supply their field armies. -- Nguyen Cao Ky
Women don't go to war to kill other women. Wars and armies and nuclear weapons are essentially heterosexual hobbies. -- Steven Patrick Morrissey
The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight. -- A. J. P. Taylor
Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by. -- Mahmoud Darwish
The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance. -- Albert Camus
For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank. -- Winston Churchill
A handful of men, inured to war, proceed to certain victory, while on the contrary, numerous armies of raw and undisciplined troops are but multitudes of men dragged to the slaughter. -- Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war. -- William Tecumseh Sherman
Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen mounted Spaniards to defeat Indian armies numbering in the thousands. -- Jared Diamond
The great help of being in the Army is to understand why are the armies clever in what they describe as emotional intelligence, making soldiers come to terms with the death of comrades by certain rituals. -- Antony Beevor
Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood. -- Gloria Steinem
I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force. -- Lech Walesa
You will never find scientists leading armies into battle. You just won't. Especially not astrophysicists - we see the biggest picture there is. We understand how small we are in the cosmos. We understand how fragile and temporary our existence is here on Earth. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labour, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television. -- Lewis Thomas
Growing up, others girls wanted to dance and help their mums with the cooking. I liked to play soccer with the boys. Or I'd be off on my own, tilting mirrors towards the sun in order to burn armies of ants. That was my idea of fun. -- Ali Larter
That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life. -- Amelia Barr
I've spent quality time in the aerospace community, with my service on two presidential commissions, but at heart, I'm an academic. Being an academic means I don't wield power over person, place or thing. I don't command armies; I don't lead labor unions. All I have is the power of thought. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years. -- Abraham Lincoln
No one has the right to ignite a war and lead an occupation and armies to conquer people, invading them and make them suffer all kinds of torture, murder, expulsion, displacement, bombing and terrorism by different lethal prohibited weapons and then come and speak as the savior of the people or a defender of their rights. -- Muqtada al Sadr
Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods. -- Will Durant
If goods don't cross borders, armies will. -- Frederic Bastiat
Thorn bushes grow where armies have camped. -- Laozi
History shows that there are no invincible armies. -- Joseph Stalin
Standing armies shall in time be totally abolished. -- Immanuel Kant
It is useless to send armies against ideas. -- Georg Brandes
It is war now, and armies need symbols. -- Lauren Oliver
We are governed not by armies, but by ideas. -- Mona Caird
Great armies are nothing but a collection of weakness. -- Christina, Queen of Sweden
When equal armies battle, the grieving one will be victorious. -- Laozi
Victory and disaster establish indestructible bonds between armies and their commanders. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
When great armies go to war, Sorrow is the sole winner. -- Laozi
We are not governed by armies or police, but by ideas. -- Mona Caird
One voice speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies... -- Ursula K. Le Guin
Two armies at death-grips "? that is one great army committing suicide. -- Henri Barbusse
Humiliation sets armies marching, empires falling, breaks hearts and minds and souls. -- Janet Morris
Bogging down large armies in historically complex, dangerous areas ends in disaster. -- Chuck Hagel
It is not big armies that win battles, it is the good ones. -- Maurice de Saxe
Our armies were in as much chaos in victory as theirs in defeat. -- Jefferson Davis
Two armies are two bodies which meet and try to frighten each other. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence. -- Dora Russell
Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence. -- Dora Russell
We don't need mass armies anymore. We replace it with more effective equipment. -- George W. Bush
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. -- Thomas Jefferson
The most dangerous states in the international system are continental powers with large armies. -- John Mearsheimer
Didn't people consider what could happen if armies of farm animals united in revolt? -- Nora Roberts
One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas. -- Victor Hugo
Our experience shows that security does not lie in weapons or fences or armies. -- Oscar Arias
We should fund the armies of compassion, we should not discriminate against faith-based programs. -- George W. Bush
Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide. -- Henri Barbusse
It is often easier to assemble armies than it is to assemble army revenues. -- Benjamin Harrison
The passing of armies and the passing of sands in the desert are one. -- Cormac McCarthy
I fear the prayers of John Knox more than all the assembled armies of Europe -- Mary, Queen of Scots
Adherence to dogmas has destroyed more armies and cost more battles than anything in war. -- J. F. C. Fuller
Let my armies be the rocks, and the trees, and the birds in the sky. -- Charlemagne
Treasures and armies do not make a king. A true king is a king within himself. -- Rumi
A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal. -- Alexander Pope
In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery. -- Herman Melville
After eating chocolate you feel godlike, as though you can conquer enemies, lead armies, entice lovers. -- Emily Luchetti
What is today a matter of academic speculation begins tomorrow to move armies and pull down empires. -- John Gresham Machen
The corporation as it now exists, with armies of salaried workers in identical cubes, will gradually disappear. -- Barry Libert
Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there. -- Abraham Lincoln
So long as large armies go to battle, so long will the air arm remain their spearhead. -- Cyril Falls
[O]ur War of the Revolution was, in good measure, fought as a protest against standing armies. -- Earl Warren
Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators. -- Frederick Stanley Maude
When a king speaks, the armies move. But when a wise man speaks, only the beard shakes. -- Vinoba Bhave
It is at moments of need that one learns who one's friends are. Defeated armies learn their lesson. -- Vladimir Lenin
When armies are mobilized and issues joined, the man who is sorry over the fact will always win. -- Laozi
Laying siege to enemy-controlled cities allows attacking armies to keep their own casualties low by avoiding urban combat. -- Walid Muallem
Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come. -- Victor Hugo
The majority of soldiers and officers of the Soviet Army and the allied armies treated the local population humanely. -- Antony Beevor
Love of country follows from the exercise of its freedoms, not from pride in its fleets or its armies. -- Lewis H. Lapham
We are not intimidated by the size of the armies, or the type of hardware the US has brought. -- Saddam Hussein
Women don't go to war to kill other women. Wars and armies and nuclear weapons are essentially heterosexual hobbies. -- Steven Patrick Morrissey
The U.S. has subsidized the armies of other countries while allowing for the very sad depletion of our military. -- Donald Trump
If governments were kind, they'd realize that conficts are resolved and wars prevented not by armies but by ordinary people. -- Scilla Elworthy
You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders, armies don't. -- John Stossel
Planning is really the hallmark of any large military formation, and it's typically a weakness in new formations and new armies. -- John R. Allen
Have we the means of resisting disciplined armies, when our only defence, the militia, is put in the hands of Congress? -- Patrick Henry
George Washington hated the guerrillas. He wanted to imitate the British red coat armies, fighting as gentlemen are supposed to fight. -- Noam Chomsky
Many armies fail because they put all their emphasis into creating a plan that becomes useless ten minutes into the battle -- Chip Heath
The armies of the day have chased the army of the night, Heaven and earth are filled with purity and light. -- Rumi
The German Army is tired. The vain effort to defeat Russia's armies has used up its equipment and reduced its morale. -- Walther von Brauchitsch
It has not fallen to your lot to command great armies. You had to create them, organize them and inspire them. -- Winston Churchill
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come. -- Victor Hugo
We and our allies owe and acknowledge an ever-lasting debt of gratitude to the armies and people of the Soviet Union. -- Frank Knox
When other Generals make mistakes their armies are beaten; when I get into a hole, my men pull me out of it. -- Duke of Wellington
The speed with which armies collapse, bureaucracies abdicate, and social structures dissolve once the autocrat is removed frequently surprises American Policy makers. -- Jeane Kirkpatrick
If we had adhered to the concept of connectedness, then we would not have created nuclear weapons, huge armies and global warming. -- Satish Kumar
God is on everyone's side... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies. -- Jean Anouilh
The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes -- Tacitus
Every child can remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies. -- Robert Louis Stevenson

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