A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform, which they know is but earth or stone; nor of a cannon, which, without a hand to give fire to it, is but cold iron; therefore a whole army is afraid of one man.
James Harrington
FireManColdArmyStoneEarth
If they are really persuaded that the army is annually established by me, that I have the sole disposal of posts and honours, that I employ this power in the destruction of liberty and the diminution of commerce, let me awaken them from their delusion.
Robert Walpole
PowerMeArmyLibertyDelusionSole
In those days, reserve duty lasted for six years, which, I might add, was three times as long as service in the regular army, although to be perfectly honest, I was unable to fulfill my entire obligation because I was taking acting classes and they said I could skip my last year.
Larry David
ServiceArmyYearLongActingThree
We are all proud of having thus contributed to the heretofore magnificent successes of our army.
Gustav Krupp
ProudArmyMagnificentOurHaving
Because my father was an army officer, I was told to enter the military school during the war. Luckily or unluckily, one month before the entrance examination, I got polio, which made my right arm numb. It's still numb.
Masatoshi Koshiba
FatherSchoolWarArmyRightMonth
The only people that have ever fought ISIS in Syria is not the regime; it is the Free Syrian Army.
Jack Keane
PeopleFreeArmyOnlySyriaEver
It turns out one of my ancestors fought in the Continental Army, so I was inducted into the Sons of the American Revolution.
Henry Louis Gates
RevolutionAmericanArmyAncestors
The law increasing and organizing the military establishment of the United States has been nearly carried into effect, and the Army has been extensively and usefully employed during the past season.
Martin Van Buren
PastLawArmyOrganizingMilitary
I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago.
Jack Steinberger
ArmyWaveChicagoIntroduction
I found out that colonels can stay until they drop dead or get a walker and being a critical medical specialty as an Army trained emergency room doctor, I could stay until age 67.
Gerald Griffin
AgeMedicalDoctorArmyDeadOut
My father fought on the side of the Central Powers, as a soldier in the Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Army, my maternal grandfather fought in the British Army, on different sides, and both were so traumatized by the experience that they never talked about it.
Michael Korda
FatherExperienceArmyGrandfather
Some people have a misunderstanding about the Army. Some people think, 'Hey, you're in the military, and everything is super-hierarchical, and you're in an environment that is intolerable of criticism, and people don't want frank assessments.' I think the opposite is the case.
H. R. McMaster
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Bring the army of the faithful through.
George Meredith
ArmyFaithfulThroughBring
I just can't imagine anyone in the United States military who would not understand the distinction between a jihadist and a radical Islamist and Muslims. I think that is snobbery from elitists. It goes to the issue, it seems to me, of an orthodoxy, a political correctness that has infiltrated the U.S. Army.
Lou Dobbs
MeThinkPoliticalArmyUnderstand
Gone are the days when the upper classes were terrified of the angry mob wanting to smash their skulls and confiscate their properties. Now their biggest enemy is the army of lazy bums, whose lifestyle of indolence and hedonism, financed by crippling taxes on the rich, is sucking the lifeblood out of the economy.
Ha-Joon Chang
AngryRichArmyEnemyNowLifestyle
Generally, all my life, I have had strong friction with life - I was a problematic soldier, I was kicked out of the army, I was in fights. There was something about writing that was a way of experimenting with this emotion.
Etgar Keret
LifeWritingStrongArmyMy Life
Military rule in Indonesia formally ended in 1998, but the army remains above the law.
Joshua Oppenheimer
LawArmyMilitaryRuleAboveEnded
The bottom line is the Kiss Army is growing by leaps and bounds.
Ace Frehley
KissArmyGrowingLineBottomLeaps
Since I'm allergic to various things, the army wouldn't accept me during the war, and I got into the Office of War Information, which sent music to Europe.
Elliott Carter
MusicWarMeArmyInformationGot
To defend a country you need an army, but to defend a civilization you need education.
Jonathan Sacks
EducationArmyYouCountryNeed
I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
A. Philip Randolph
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So when I told my parents I wanted to go into acting because I was flunking out of my first year of junior college, they were relieved that I had picked something other than joining the army. But I can't imagine how they had high hopes for me.
Dustin Hoffman
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The way the Army does things is sometimes a little strange.
Desi Arnaz
ArmySometimesStrangeWayLittle
Flying is one of the safest jobs in the Army as long as you don't drop out. If you do drop out, you are a dead man, and dropping out means, usually, that you have made a mistake or let go of your grip.
Eddie Rickenbacker
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