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  • Well, does he still have his fingernails? Making inquiries while negotiating the release of a US Army pilot from North Korea, in Time. -- Bill Richardson
  • The US Army has announced that although it is true they performed mind-destroying drug tests on hundreds of soldiers in the 1960s, none of the victims have been promoted beyond the rank of lieutenant colonel. -- George Carlin
  • The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist. McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the F-15. And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley's technologies to flourish is called the US Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps. -- Thomas Friedman
  • As a 29 year veteran of the US Army/Army Reserves, retiring as a Colonel and having served as a U.S. diplomat for 16 years and resigning in 2003 in opposition to the Iraq war, I firmly believe war does not resolve political issues. We must work diligently to force the governments of our nations to use diplomacy, not weapons. -- Ann Wright
  • I have got an infamous army, very weak and ill-equipped, and a very inexperienced staff. -- Duke of Wellington
  • Memories can bring comfort to the old and infirm, but memories can also be implacable foes, a malicious army of temporal ghosts forever pillaging the long-sought-after peace of our twilight years. -- Rick Yancey
  • Once and for allthe idea of glorious victorieswon by the glorious armymust be wiped outNeither side is gloriousOn either side they're just frightened men messing their pantsand they all want the same thingNot to lie under the earthbut to walk upon itwithout crutches(Roux, act 1, scene 19) -- Peter Weiss
  • We are not intimidated by the size of the armies, or the type of hardware the US has brought. -- Saddam Hussein
  • It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer. -- Gore Vidal
  • The French were generous in giving us assistance in corps and army artillery, with its personnel, and we were confident from the start of our superiority over the enemy in guns of all calibers. -- Kelly Miller
  • 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
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  • Of course, the kind of support that Cuba could give us was very limited when it came to building up our army, since they didn't manufacture armaments in the quantities that we required. So we turned to Algeria and the Soviet Union for support. -- Daniel Ortega
  • Actors are like Swiss Army knives - we're ready to use any lever at any moment. But I learned long ago that, unfortunately, this industry only sees the one thing sticking out that they know us from, and that's the only thing they can imagine. -- Allison Williams
  • My parents, fleeing a repressive regime in the Dominican Republic, were embraced by this country and taught us to love it in return. After my father served proudly in the U.S. Army, they settled in Buffalo, N.Y., and were able to live the American Dream. -- Thomas Perez
  • The United States isn't a dictatorship ruling with a brutal army and an iron fist, so our police departments must understand that they are there to serve and protect us - all of us. And when they do commit crimes, they must be arrested and prosecuted like anyone else, bottom line. -- Al Sharpton
  • That was a pretty fine Army that we had in 1965. By 1973, it was in tatters. It was a disgrace to the country and to itself, to its own heritage, really. So it's, you know, the Army belongs to all 307 million of us. It is our common possession, it's our common heritage. As goes the Army, so goes the republic. -- Rick Atkinson
  • All of us recruits are equal in the eyes of the Army: low as you can go. -- Garth Nix
  • We'd also have to infiltrate the army too, because they are well trained to kill us all. -- John Lennon
  • The only time France wants us to go to war is when the German Army is sitting in Paris sipping coffee. -- Regis Philbin
  • The only salvation for us is to stop being an incoherent, loose mob and to change into a strongly organized, disciplined army. -- Roman Dmowski
  • We are the folk song army, every one of us cares. We all hate poverty, war, and injustice unlike the rest of you squares. -- Tom Lehrer
  • We have an army far better adapted to attack than to defend. Let us fight at advantage before we are forced to fight at disadvantage. -- J. E. B. Stuart
  • I think we're all in Cime's army now. But never mind, the Storm God hasn't forgotten us. Heaven is no farther away than it ever was. -- Janet Morris
  • Nature has given us this for free, it was meant to sustain us, we will not allow it to become a monopoly to finance the Imperial Army. -- Vandana Shiva
  • Not all G8 members take the view that chemical weapons were in fact used by the Syrian Army. Some actually agree with us that there is no proof. -- Vladimir Putin
  • The cafe windows wrapped all the way around the observation floor, which gave us a beautiful panoramic view of the skeleton army that had come to kill us. -- Rick Riordan
  • George Bush doesn't care about black people... They're saying black families are looting and white families are just looking for food... they're giving the (Army) permission to shoot us. -- Kanye West
  • 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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