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Great armies are nothing but a collection of weakness. -- Christina, Queen of Sweden
When great armies go to war, Sorrow is the sole winner. -- Laozi
The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight. -- A. J. P. Taylor
It has not fallen to your lot to command great armies. You had to create them, organize them and inspire them. -- Winston Churchill
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
when night came on, the Macedonians and the barbarian crowd suddenly took fright in one of those mysterious panics to which great armies are liable -- Thucydides
...a great army of the proletarian party [must be] prepared to smash the reactionary forces and to clear the way for the advanced forces of society. -- J. Stalin
The very existence of armaments and great armies psychologically accustoms us to accept the philosophy of militarism. They inevitably increase fear and hate in the world. -- Norman Thomas
Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragraphs, and stories. One letter falls, and the entire language falters. -- Vera Nazarian
Words are but the bannerets of a great army, a few bits of waving color here and there; thoughts are the main body of the footman that march unseen below. -- Henry Ward Beecher
You know, years ago John Calhoun said that West Point men would lead great armies... He never thought they'd be leading them against each other. Well, if we have to meet like that, I'd rather we never meet again. -- Philibert Orry
As long as this great army of workers is scattered among so many craft unions, it will be impossible for them to unite and act in harmony together. Craft unionism is the negation of solidarity. The more unions you have, the less unity. -- Eugene V. Debs
Because its myriad glimmering plumes Like a great army's stir and wave; Because its golden billows blooms, The poor man's barren walks to lave: Because its sun-shaped blossoms show How souls receive the light of God, And unto earth give back that glow I thank him for the Goldenrod. -- Lucy Larcom
There was a time in my life when election year was nothing to me, but in 1912, I joined that great army of Americans who drop a stitch in their routine every four years, and give themselves up to backing first a candidate for the nomination and afterwards a nominee. -- Margaret Case Harriman
No prophet or apostle who ever lived equaled the power of these individuals in this great army of the Lord in these last days. No one ever had it; not even Elijah or Peter or Paul or anyone else enjoyed the power that is going to rest upon this great army. -- Paul Cain
Lonely people have enthusiasms which cannot always be explained. When something strikes them as funny, the intensity and length of their laughter mirrors the depth of their loneliness, and they are capable of laughing like hyenas. When something touches their emotions, it runs through them like Paul Revere, awakening feelings that gather into great armies. -- Mark Helprin
The conflicting missions of the two armies seemed to have no fog, no gray, only black-and-white clarity. I had lived my life in terms of compromise, rule-bending, trade-offs, concessions, bargaining, striking deals, finding middle ground. In these two great armies, there was no such thing. Good was good, and evil was evil, and they shared no common ground. -- Randy Alcorn
Any thing that proves that it is not in the power of Kings and Princes by their great armies to have every thing their own way is of such good example that without any good will to the French one can not help being delighted by it, and you know I have a natural partiality to what some people call rebels. -- Charles James Fox
By day certainly the combatants have a clearer notion, though even then by no means of all that takes place, no one knowing much of anything that does not does not go on in his own immediate neighborhood; but in a night engagement ( and this was the only one that occurred between great armies during the war) how could anyone know anything for certain? -- Thucydides
Two armies at death-grips "? that is one great army committing suicide. -- Henri Barbusse
A priest can achieve great victories with an army of women at his command. -- Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots. -- Bernard M. Oliver
It is not a great Xerxes army of words, but a compact Greek ten thousand that march safely down to posterity. -- James Russell Lowell
My great-grandfather was in the army in India, and we have photographs of my family there in full Victorian dress. They're incredibly romantic. -- Georgina Chapman
It would be easier to fight the Russian army, and it would give me great satisfaction, but I have a responsibility to my people -- Aslan Maskhadov
My great uncle was in 'Dad's Army.' And I don't know if Americans will know that. It was a hugely popular show in England. -- Daisy Ridley
Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had disintegrated. -- George Grosz
The governments of the great States have two instruments for keeping the people dependent, in fear and obedience: a coarser, the army; and a more refined, the school. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
When combined, the small individual contributors of caring, friendship, forgiveness, and love, each of us different from our next-door neighbors, can form a phalanx, an army, with great capability. -- Jimmy Carter

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