Mahatma Gandhi Quotes, Army Quotes, May Quotes

The word 'defeat' is not to be found in my dictionary, and everyone who is selected as a recruit in my army may be certain that there is no defeat for a satyagrahi.

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A cowardly act! What do I care about that? You may be sure that I should never fear to commit one if it were to my advantage.

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Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , Army Quotes , Care Quotes

And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini's armies in Albania, on the Greek frontier, one wasn't sure what came next. So, don't trust the telephone. Or the newspapers. Or the radio. Or tomorrow.

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It is ten thousand times cheaper to pay the best spies lavishly than even a tiny army poorly.

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When great armies go to war, Sorrow is the sole winner.

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Like an army defeated the snow hath retreated.

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Nothing could be smarter, more splendid, more brilliant, better drawn up than two armies. Trumpets, fifes, hautboys, drums, cannons, formed a harmony such as never been heard in hell.

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the leader of armies is the arbiter of the people's fate, the man on whom it depends whether the nation shall be in peace or in peril.

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Take up the weapons of the glorious army for the salvation of many thousands.

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Upon the glazen shelves kept watch Matthew and Waldo, guardians of the faith The army of unalterable law.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Army Quotes , Law Quotes

What I have done up to this is nothing. I am only at the beginning of the course I must run. Do you imagine that I triumph in Italy in order to aggrandise the pack of lawyers who form the Directory, and men like Carnot and Barras? What an idea!

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Cavalry is useful before, during, and after the battle.

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The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that's what an army is--a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers. But a mob without any MAN at the head of it is BENEATH pitifulness.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Fighting Quotes , Army Quotes

Mankind are in the end always governed by superiority of intellectual faculties, and none are more sensible of this than the military profession. When, on my return from Italy, I assumed the dress of the Institute, and associated with men of science, I knew what I was doing: I was sure of not being misunderstood by the lowest drummer boy in the army.

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An army must have but one line of operations. This must be maintained with care and abandoned only for major reasons.

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Being unconquerable lies with yourself; being conquerable lies with your enemy.

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Worthy of honor is he who does no injustice, and more than twofold honor, if he not only does no injustice himself, but hinders others from doing any.

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Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.

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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , War Quotes , Army Quotes

Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have never shaken an empire or led an army into battle. The plays by Shakespeare are not by you, and you have never introduced a barbarous race to the blessings of civilization. What is your excuse?

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There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare.

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