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James Mellon, who paid $300 for a civil war Union army deferment · Unknown, Army Magazine of Preventive Maintenance

An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep. – Arab Proverb
Four Lessons on Life 1. Never take down a fence until you know why it was put up. 2. If you get too far ahead of the army, your soldiers may mistake you for the enemy. 3. Don't complain about the bottom rungs of the ladder they helped to get you higher. 4. If you want to enjoy the rainbow, be prepared to endure the storm. – Warren Wiersbe
No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come. – Victor Hugo
Yesterday Iraq had the fourth largest Army in the world. Today they have the second largest Army in Iraq. – Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
An army marches on its stomach. – Napoleon Bonaparte
'What good can a handgun do against an army?', is in fact a complex one and must be answered at length and carefully. It is a military question. It is also a political question. But above all it is a moral question which strikes to the heart of what makes men free, and what makes them slaves. – Bill St. Clair
A language is a dialect with an army and a navy. – Max Weinreich
A lion or a tiger does not need bodyguards; only the weak and the coward need warriors to protect him! A king needs an army and soldiers, because he is weak and powerless. Wherever you see someone protected; there, you will see either the weak or the coward! Strong fist does not require defenders! Shining sword is not in need of protection! – Mehmet Murat ildan
A marching army first crushes the flowers before the enemy; but even before this, it crushes its own conscience! Conscience and killing cannot be together. – Mehmet Murat ildan
Any religion with a sword is not a religion; it is merely an army of assassins! A real man of God carries only flowers in his hands! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Are there anything more dishonourable and more coward than not marching in front of the army after taking the decision of war as a politician? Sending others for dying but keeping himself in safety is the affair of the low man only! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Before the Gulf War started, the Iraqi Army was the the fourth largest in the world. Now, its the second largest army in Iraq. – Wall Street Journal, March 15, 1991
Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision. – Blake Clark
Between Napoleon and his army, always choose Napoleon; because He can create another army, but his army cannot create a Napoleon! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Chief of the Army. – Napoleon Bonaparte, last words, 1821
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. – Edward Everett Hale
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it. – Ted Morgan
I am going to Spain to fight an army without a general, and thence to the East to fight a general without an army. – Julius Caesar, (attributed)
I am more afriad of an army of 100 sheep lead by a lion than an army of 100 lions lead by a sheep. – Tallyrand
I remember when I was in the army, we had the toughest drill sergeant in the world. He'd get right up next to your face and yell, and if you didn't have the right answers, mister, you'd be peeling potatoes or changing the latrine. Hey, wait. I wasn't in the army. Then who WAS that guy – Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
I think Google should be like a Swiss Army knife: clean, simple, the tool you want to take everywhere. – Marissa Mayer
If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum. – Sir Arthur Eddington
In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character the multitude pass us by like a distant army. – Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than to advance. – Joseph Stalin
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts. – Dr. Robert Schuller

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