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One of the most beautiful things about Britain, apart from the NHS and the free education, is the British Army. -- John Lydon
If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum. -- Arthur Eddington
It is absolutely bedrock to the British Army's philosophy that a commanding officer is responsible for what goes on within his command. -- Mike Jackson
Dad was in the British Army and my mom was in the Royal Air Force, so both of my parents believed in discipline. -- Mike Myers
The British don't runaway from terrorism. We have had 30-odd years of terrorism in our own country from the Irish Republican Army. We're used to it. -- John Major
I was a good soldier in the British Army. I was born in a very, very poor family. And I enlisted to escape hunger. But my officers were Scottish and they loved me. The Scots are good, you know. -- Idi Amin
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. -- David McCullough
American audiences tend to underappreciate the British, but 240 years ago they were us: They were the most powerful nation on Earth. Their mercantile empire spanned the planet. They had the most potent and experienced army and navy the world had ever seen. -- Rick Atkinson
The first condition of success for the League of Nations is, therefore, a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of America and France and Italy that there will be no competitive building up of fleets or armies between them. -- Arthur Henderson
I think I've played a lesbian about five times. The first one was with Helen Baxendale in a drama called 'The Investigator,' about the conditions lesbians had to live under in the army in Britain, which was based on a true story. -- Laura Fraser
My Mother is Swedish and my Father is Scottish, he played for Charlton in the 1960's and was in the Army, he captained the British forces team. We then moved to S.A. because a lot of players did that at the time. -- Richard Gough
Extraordinarily, I was up in the cemetery in Derry City, and I had a red cape on with a fur hood as a little girl, when a gun battle broke out between the IRA and the British Army, and I got caught in the crossfire. -- Roma Downey
The spring of 1942 was given over to a very impassioned, strategic debate about where we should first attack in counterpunching against the Germans and Italians. The British argued very persuasively on the part of Winston Churchill, prime minister, that this was a very green American Army, green soldiers, green commanders. -- Rick Atkinson
My father was an army champion boxer... in the British army. And so he loved boxing and talked it up as a sport. But then when my brother and I were beating the crap out of each other, he was always trying to tone it down. But I am a fan of boxing. -- Hugh Jackman
My grandmother on my father's side, a nightclub singer, was a Jewish refugee from Prussia who ended up in Jerusalem, where she met my grandfather - a British army officer. I remember as a child having bowls of chicken soup made by her. There were lots of interesting components, like feet and necks. -- Jamie Cullum
I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings. -- Walter Dean Myers
I was a section commander in the parachute regiment [in the British army]. -- Scott Raab
The British Army should be a projectile to be fired by the British Navy. -- Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
I used to get a lift to school every day with a man who was a major in the British Army. -- Adrian McKinty
Commanders and senior officers should die with troops. The honour of the British Empire and the British Army is at stake. -- Lord Randolph Churchill
The builders of the British Indian Empire have patiently built its four pillars-the European interests, the army, the Indian princes and the communal divisions. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The Australian divisions and the New Zealanders had become what they were to remain for the rest of the war the spearhead of the British Army -- John Terraine
The British Army has a fine tradition of being so distracted by what it is currently up to it stubbornly refuses to look round the corner, let alone into the future. -- Patrick Hennessey

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