Army sayings
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- Christine Anderson99◆ Where are they now that we, the men whom they sent off to war, have returned? These are commanders who have deserted their troops, and there is no more serious crime in the law of war. The Army says they never leave their wounded. The Marines say they never leave even their dead. These men have left all the casualties and retreated behind a pious shield of public rectitude. They have left the real stuff of their reputation bleaching behind them in the sun in this country.
- Senator John Kerry99◆ Why can't they have gay people in the army? Personally, I think they are just afraid of a thousand guys with M16s going, "Who'd you call a faggot?"
- Jon Stewart99◆ Without discipline the Army would just be a bunch of guys wearing the same color clothing.
- Frank Burns99◆ The Army is America. We are America's sons and daughters. America's sons and daughters are getting tattoos. That means that American soldiers are getting tattoos.
- Bryan Hilferty99◆ I wouldnt brag too much about this one because its so small, but its still seven straight months.
- Bryan Hilferty99◆ We try to rehabilitate most people, but if you have set fire to Chicago, we probably won't attempt to rehabilitate you.
- Bryan Hilferty99◆ American youth tend to have tattoos now. The demographic is changing. If a kid is in good shape and passes all the tests, do Americans really want us to say no to him because he's got tattoos? I don't think so.
- Bryan Hilferty99◆ Not everyone is qualified to join this team. To enlist you have to both meet our high standards and be motivated to serve your country motivation or qualification alone is not enough.
- Bryan Hilferty99◆ Every army in the history of the world has always had some deserters, usually much greater than we have today, because once again every soldier who's joined the Army since 1973 is a volunteer, and the numbers are very small and they are almost completely for -- people desert almost completely for personal or financial reasons.
- Bryan Hilferty99◆ The discipline which makes the soldiers of a free country reliable in battle is not to be gained by harsh or tyrannical treatment. On the contrary, such treatment is far more likely to destroy than to make an army. It is possible to impart instruction and give commands in such a manner and such a tone of voice as to inspire in the soldier no feeling, but an intense desire to obey, while the opposite manner and tone of voice cannot fail to excite strong resentment and a desire to disobey. The one mode or the other of dealing with subordinates springs from a corresponding spirit in the breast of the commander. He who feels the respect which is due to others cannot fail to inspire in them respect for himself. While he who feels, and hence manifests, disrespect towards others, especially his subordinates, cannot fail to inspire hatred against himself.
- John McAllister Schofield99◆ Not taking jailbirds has been our policy for decades.
- Bryan Hilferty99◆ Army life was rough. Would you believe it, they actually wanted me to pitch three times a week.
- Whitey Ford99◆ The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.
- Harry S Truman99◆ All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force take a drink from the Ohio or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a
- Abraham Lincoln99
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