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An army is a miniature of the society which produces it.
The way that people dress makes them part of an army, dressed in their own uniform, determined to do something.
But what are kings, when regiment is gone,
But perfect shadows in a sunshine day?
- Edward II, 5.1
There are at present many Coloured men in the Confederate Army doing duty not only as cooks, servants and labourers, but real soldiers, having muskets on their shoulders, and bullets in their pockets.
You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers.
The army is the true nobility of our country.
As each brigade emerged from the woods, from 50 to 100 guns opened upon it, tearing great gaps in its ranks; but the heroes pressed on and were shot down by reserves at the guns. It was not war, it was murder.
National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.
Armed forces were no longer primarily feudal levies serving under a vassal's obligation who went home after forty days; they were recruited bodies who served for pay.
An unprecedented number of uniformed males, marching, parading and engaging in mock battles in every region of Great Britain brought a pleasant frisson of excitement into many normally quiet and deeply repetitive female lives.
Every battalion has its marching songs.
By method and discipline are to be understood the marshaling of the army in its proper subdivisions, the graduations of rank among the officers, the maintenance of roads by which supplies may reach the army, and the control of military expenditure.
Of whatsoever number a fleet of ships of war is composed, it is usually divided into three squadrons; and these, if numerous, are again separated into divisions.
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all
A standing army, however necessary it may be at some times, is always dangerous to the liberties of the people. Such power should be watched with a jealous eye.
That imperial guard which poets and humanists mount in relay around any great memory.
Brys, how big do you want to make your escort?"
"Two brigades and two battalions, sire."
"Is that reasonable?" Tehol asked, looking around.
"I have no idea," Janath replied. "Bugg?"
"I'm no general, my Queen."
"We need an expert opinion, then," said Tehol. "Brys?
When they remain in garrison, soldiers are maintained with fear and punishment; when they are then led to war, with hope and reward.
The strength of an Army lies in strict discipline and undeviating obedience to its officers.
[A] military force was collected in Europe, formidable by their arms and numbers, if the generals had understood the science of command, and the soldiers the duty of obedience.
vanguard. Jackson's division was the old valley army:
Too many kings can ruin an army
The soldiers lie in the grey morning. Thickets separate them. They are on manoeuvres. They are at war with their hands, their eyes, their foreheads.
An army of lovers shall not fail.
They assembled from all sides, one after another, with arms and horses and all the panoply of war ...
Were there no uniforms, there would probably be no armies.
Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
Nothing is so contrary to military rules as to make the strength of your army known, either in the orders of the day, in proclamations, or in the newspapers.
They were the lowest in the army, and yet they bore the weight of kings.
The army is always the same. The sun and the moon change. The army knows no seasons.
Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates.
Good order and discipline in any army are to be depended upon more than courage alone.
Most armies are in fact run by their sergeants - the officers are there just to give things a bit of tone and prevent warfare from becoming a mere lower-class brawl.
An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
It is asserted by most respectable writers upon our government, that a well-regulated militia, composed of the yeomanry of the country, have ever been considered the bulwark of a free people. Tyrants have never placed any confidence on a militia composed of freemen.
There is such an equality among them that the officers have no authority. The privates are all generals, but not soldiers.
An Army is still a crowd, though a highly organized one. It is governed by the same laws, and under the stress of war is ever tending to revert to its crowd form. Our object in peace is so to train it that the reversion will become very slow.
I ask you sir, who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people.
We are your army.Army-- Jodi Meadows
A few regular troops from old France, weakened by hunger and sickness, who, when fresh, were unable to withstand the British soldiers, are their general's chief dependence.
From the moment an organizer enters a community, he lives, dreams, eats, breathes, sleeps only one thing, and that is to build the mass power base of what he calls the army.
Soldiers in arms! Defenders of our soil!
Who from destruction save us; who from spoil
Protect the sons of peace, who traffic or who toil;
Would I could duly praise you, that each deed
Your foe's might honor, and your friends might read.
I was not one man only but the steady advance hour after hour of an army in close formation, in which there appeared, according to the moment, impassioned men, indifferent men, jealous men.
The soldier is the army.
What we need is a royal army of returned missionaries reenlisted into service.
In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good. So, too, it is better to recapture an army entire than to destroy it, to capture a regiment, a detachment or a company entire than to destroy them.
We are the boys who go to a particular place, at H-hour, occupy a designated terrain, stand on it, dig the enemy out of their holes, force them then and there to surrender or die. We're the bloody infantry.
The poets and artists and philosophers, resistance activists, secret scouts and troublemakers, had become, as they must, soldiers. Now,
Bestow rewards without respect to customary practice; publish orders without respect to precedent. Thus you may employ the entire army as you would one man.
An armed and trained militia is the firmest bulwark of republics - that without standing armies their liberty can never be in danger, nor with large ones safe ...
An army must have but one line of operations. This must be maintained with care and abandoned only for major reasons.
Our detachments move us toward freedom and death.
A major of colored troops is here with his party capturing negroes, with or without their consent ... They are being conscripted.
This army stays here until the last wounded man is removed. Before I leave them to the enemy, I will lose many more men.
The Three Armies can be deprived of their commanding officer, but even a common man cannot be deprived of his purpose.
Standing armies shall in time be totally abolished.
Our poetry emulates the recent progress in military strategy: Our army's strength is the foot soldiers.
Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries.
Army? I don't need an army when I've got my ax!Army-- Markus Heitz
So many men have so many times predicted the time of the end of the Rebellion, and been mistaken, that I will not do so now; but I can say it will be very soon, if the old regiments are filled up.
A standing army is like a standing member. It's an excellent assurance of domestic tranquility, but a dangerous temptation to foreign adventure.
The cavalry ain't coming. You've got to do this yourself.
needed chiefly for the defence of the homeland
Behold a people shall come from the north, and a great nation. They shall hold the bow and the lance; they are cruel and will not show mercy; their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses every one put in array, like a man to the battle.
In the army of indigence the uniform is rags; they serve to distinguish the rank and file from the recruiting officers.
For every man who has learned to fight in arms will desire to learn the proper arrangement of an army, which is the sequel of the lesson.
Armies are not only for offensives.
Good convention, with the military class and the
Soldiers are members of a profession of arms which has existed virtually unchanged for thousands of years- far longer than most other human institutions have existed. The Army has done so because of its unique character- a uniqueness based primarily upon intangibles that cannot be costed.
The high courage of a single man is an army all by itself!
So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
With such incentives to brave deeds, and with the trust that God is with us, your generals will lead you confidently to the combat - assured of success. General commanding
When defending itself against another country, a nation never lacks men, but too often, soldiers.
An army must inevitably consist of the scum of the people and all those for which society has no use.
Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved.
To even call them "units" is a joke. These were just mobs of men in uniforms, clerks
When the common soldiers are too strong and their officers too weak, the result is INSUBORDINATION.
The Army can be family. The Army can be religion.
Good God, girl!" shouted her uncle. "It was an army of individuals! They walked off their farms and walked to the War!
No army is comprised of all the same kinds of units or types of troops. There is power in diversity. If you always see only one choice, or use only one option, you will surely lose more than you win.
We don't need mass armies anymore. We replace it with more effective equipment.
It is not everyday that one learns an entire militia has sworn unbeknownest to obey you
An army, I learned in time, needs a head. It needs one man to lead it, but give an army two leaders and you halve its strength.
Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader.
The Official History of the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops,
The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!
Over this August district work period, like many of my colleagues, I spent a lot of time with the men and women in uniform from my home State. The 196th Field Artillery Brigade just got back from a year in Afghanistan.
In a militia, the character of the laborer, artificer, or tradesman, predominates over that of the soldier: in a standing army, that of the soldier predominates over every other character ...
We've fought monsters before, but not an army.
What this world needs is a new kind of army ... A army of LOVE & KINDNESS
Guarded within the old red wall's embrace, Marshalled like soldiers in gay company, The tulips stand arrayed. Here infantry Wheels out into the sunlight.
I joined the Army in 1965 and served with the 11th Hussars, which I loved. The regiment was so relaxed - a salute was more like a friendly wave.
Let my armies be the rocks, and the trees, and the birds in the sky.
Raw in the fields the rude militia swarms, Mouth without hands; maintained at vast expense, In peace a charge, in war a weak defence.
I feel an army in my fist.
I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world.
The day the army of Virginia allows a negro regiment to enter their lines as soldiers they will be degraded, ruined, and disgraced.
Two armies are two bodies which meet and try to frighten each other.
Maneuvering with an army is advantageous; with an undisciplined multitude, most dangerous.