We are not a gigantic state, we do not have nuclear weapons, but our army is sufficiently capable to respond to any threat... Therefore, we will protect our patch of land, our statehood, and our independence.
Alexander Lukashenko
IndependenceArmyWillLandProtect
Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse of prisoners and the fact that, army people might be made to pay a price, but who are the privatized torturers accountable too?
Arundhati Roy
PeopleArmyAmericaYouPriceNow
In the 1960s, my first-generation immigrant parents were gifted the olive branch of a blue British passport when working for the British Army in Cyprus. It completely transformed the Paphitis story.
Theo Paphitis
BlueParentsStoryArmyImmigrant
Over the past years, I have lectured many times on the Cuban missile crisis, most provocatively to 200 senior officers of the former Soviet army in Moscow in 1991, among them KGB generals. There, my knowledge of Penkovsky's role was thoroughly confirmed, and so was the Soviet military men's residual sense of humiliation at Khrushchev's 'blink'.
Alistair Horne
KnowledgeMenPastArmyCrisisOver
My vocation is more in composition really than anything else - building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.
Jimmy Page
BuildingGuitarArmyMoreAnything
My dad was career Army.
Reg E. Cathey
ArmyCareerDad
When I was in the Army, I read a book by Adlai Stevenson. He said law was as noble as saving a person's life. So at one point, I felt that way too.
William Sanderson
LifeLawBookArmyPersonSaid
Ben Schwartzwalder was a decent guy, but he was from another era. He was like a Marine, with a real army attitude. He thought there was only one way to play football, and that was the rough way.
Jim Brown
AttitudeFootballThoughtArmyPlay
When I was in the army, there were four times that I was wounded. I also got more than 30 wounds on my body, and my injuries were ranked on the second rank of invalids. The first rank is the most severe. So, that means that I had lost more than 60 per cent of working capability.
Nguyen Tan Dung
ArmyInjuriesBodyLostMoreFirst
Gandhi held no formal position of authority. Nor was there an organized army standing behind him. What he did have were his core beliefs and the audacity to speak truth to power.
Punit Renjen
TruthPowerSpeakArmyAuthority
I thought to myself, Join the army. It's free. So I figured while I'm here I'll lose a few pounds.
John Candy
MyselfFreeThoughtArmyLoseHere
A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale.
Jalal Talabani
CourageSacrificeArmyYouFind
Nor should the U.S. military be forced to remain in Iraq essentially as an army for one side of a civil war.
Peter DeFazio
WarArmyMilitaryCivil WarSide
Being exposed to the enlisted Army was an eye-opener. I thought everyone was like me, but the enlisted Army is a constituency of the dispossessed.
John Gregory Dunne
MeThoughtArmyEveryoneBeingLike
I've always been independent. My father was in the army, so we moved every two years. I had to go round and bang on the neighbour's door each time to find out if they had kids I could play with.
James Blunt
FatherTimeDoorArmyFindPlay
You cannot defeat Islamic State with airstrikes only. It's necessary to cooperate with ground troops, and the Syrian army is the most efficient and powerful ground force to fight the Islamic State.
Sergei Lavrov
FightArmyYouPowerfulDefeatOnly
There is an army of the informed wanting to be more informed.
Melvyn Bragg
ArmyMoreInformedWanting
'Wicked Nights' is the story of Zacharel, the new leader of the Army of Disgrace - heavenly warriors in danger of falling from grace - and Annabelle, a human who has spent the last four years locked in an institution for the criminally insane.
Gena Showalter
LeaderGraceStoryArmyNewHuman
In Iraq and Afghanistan, our soldiers signed up intentionally. That's a huge difference from the largely conscripted army of my era.
Tim O'Brien
ArmySoldiersDifferenceAfghanistan
If you need to do a movie where you have an army of 10,000 soldiers, that's a very difficult thing to shoot for real. It's very expensive, but as computer graphics techniques make that cheaper, it'll be more possible to make pictures on an epic scale, which we haven't really seen since the '50s and '60s.
John Knoll
ArmyYouPicturesPossibleDifficult
I will never forget the moment when I was liberated by the American Army. I will never forget those very young boys coming up the hill, who had to take me a prisoner to liberate me.
Heinrich Boll
MomentMeAmericanArmyNever Forget
I owe everything to the army.
Norman Wisdom
ArmyEverythingOwe
Sleep is the Swiss army knife of health. When sleep is deficient, there is sickness and disease. And when sleep is abundant, there is vitality and health.
Matthew Walker
HealthSleepSicknessArmyKnife
The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of nothing at all. We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France.
Ahmed Ben Bella
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