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  • In times of crisis our nation depends on the courage and determination of the Guard. You know the call of active duty can come at any time. You stand ready to put your lives on hold and answer that call, ... And you did so because you love your state and your country. America appreciates your courageous decision to serve. Together with your comrades in the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Reserves, you are showing that patriotism is alive and well in Idaho and throughout the United States.

  • Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

    War   Army   Thinking  
    Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.568, Library of America
  • And gentlemen in England now-a-bed Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.

    'Henry V' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 35
  • I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.

    Love   Military   Army  
    Letter to Sir William Spring, September 1643, in Thomas Carlyle 'Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches' (2nd ed., 1846)
  • I believe that when we overdo our military aggressiveness, what it does it actually weakens our national defense. I mean, we stood up to the Soviets. They had 40,000 nuclear weapons. Now we're fretting day in and day - night about third-world countries that have no army, navy or air force.

    The Republicans' first Presidential candidates debate at the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California, www.nytimes.com. May 3, 2007.
  • Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?

    Children   Army   Play  
    Karl Kraus, Jonathan McVity (2001). “Dicta and Contradicta”, p.50, University of Illinois Press
  • The highly skilled workers at Lima have enabled the plant to grow far beyond its original mission, now providing a wide variety of cutting-edge military vehicles and equipment to the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps.

  • Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.

    Army   Men   Thinking  
    In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 3, p. 265 (10 April 1778)
  • I did not have any money, so when I came to New York, I just dressed myself with whatever I could find and the Army-Navy store.

    New York   Army   Navy  
  • Making the world safe for hypocrisy.

    Army   Hypocrisy   Navy  
    Look Homeward, Angel pt. 3, ch. 36 (1929) SeeWoodrowWilson 15
  • Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts - a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments.

    Art   Marine   Army  
    Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.198, Graphic Arts Books
  • Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.

    In Sir Peter Gretton Former Naval Person (1968) ch. 1
  • When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship.

  • As long as there are prisons, police, armies, navies; we are not civilized. When the Earth joins together and uses the Earth intelligently, that will be the beginning of civilization.

  • The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes.

    Mistake   Army   Navy  
    Attributed in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.
  • In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time mutinous and full of faction, until some popular general, who understands the art of conciliating the soldiery, and who possesses the true spirit of command, shall draw the eyes of all men upon himself. Armies will obey him on his personal account. There is no other way of securing military obedience in this state of things.

    Art   Military   Eye  
    Edmund Burke (1868). “Reflections on the Revolution in France and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event: 1790”, p.249
  • An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.

    Military   Army   Enemy  
    Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.303, China Books
  • Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.

  • A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace.

    Military   War   Navy  
    Theodore Roosevelt (1916). “Fear God and Take Your Own Part”, New York : George H. Doran
  • A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company

    Men   Jail   Sailing  
    In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 1, p. 348 (16 March 1759).
  • The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest defence and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength, - the floating bulwark of our island.

    Commentaries on the Laws of England bk. 1, ch. 13 (1765)
  • I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but by God, they frighten me.

    Military   War   Humorous  
  • Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

    Travel   Jail   Sailing  
    Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 16 Mar. 1759)
  • I can assure our countrymen that India is safe in the hands of the brave warriors of our Army, Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard.

    Army   Warrior   Air  
    Source: www.deccanchronicle.com
  • There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen.

    Army   Gentleman   Navy  
    "History of England". Book by Thomas B. Macaulay, Volume I, Chapter III, Part XXXII, 1848.
  • Those who served, and those who continue to serve in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard took an oath to uphold and protect the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic, and we can never forget the importance of their commitment to our Nation.

    Congressional Record, V. 150, PT. 8, May 18, 2004 to June 1, 2004, Government Printing Office, p. 10718, 2009.
  • If I should die, think only this of me: that there's some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England.

    Army   Thinking   Navy  
    "The Soldier" l. 1 (1914)
  • If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.

    Money   Military   War  
    Sun Tzu “Sun Tzu: The Art of War (Illustrated)”, Charles River Editors
  • In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.

    Army   Order   Cities  
    Herman Melville (2009). “Billy Budd and Other Tales”, p.140, Penguin
  • The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. The fighters are our salvation, but the bombers alone provide the means of victory.

    War   Mean   Winning  
    Winston Churchill (1986). “Their Finest Hour”, p.405, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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