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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
Armies are not only for offensives.
Countries, not just their armies, win wars.
History shows that there are no invincible armies.
We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.
Were there no uniforms, there would probably be no armies.
Governments move armies, but only individuals can move hearts.
Preemptive war is what Israel did in '67 with Arab armies on its borders.
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide.
Our experience shows that security does not lie in weapons or fences or armies.
Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.
Bogging down large armies in historically complex, dangerous areas ends in disaster.
I sincerely believe... that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
We are not intimidated by the size of the armies, or the type of hardware the US has brought.
The scripts that I've been getting are of epic proportion. People want me to lead the big armies.
Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
We know that Maduro's armies are riddled with persecution, torture, threats, and wrongful arrests.
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
By fighting a limited, defensive war, America permitted the enemy to endlessly re-supply their field armies.
God is on everyone's side... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.
You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders, armies don't.
Women don't go to war to kill other women. Wars and armies and nuclear weapons are essentially heterosexual hobbies.
The majority of soldiers and officers of the Soviet Army and the allied armies treated the local population humanely.
The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.
For the most part, I think American armies are awfully good in the business of protecting civilians, of not going over the line.
Planning is really the hallmark of any large military formation, and it's typically a weakness in new formations and new armies.
If you're in the middle of a field, surrounded by armies, left right and centre, you can't just say: 'I've had enough now, sorry.'
Soldiers of Israel, we have no aims of conquest. Our purpose is to bring to naught the attempts of the Arab armies to conquer our land.
National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
ISIS is a battle-hardened, highly trained organization that is well-funded. They're one of the strongest armies in the world for their size.
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.
Evil is a sucker for solidity. It always goes for big numbers, for confident granite, for ideological purity, for drilled armies and balanced sheets.
Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by.
As we've seen, deploying large armies abroad won't always be our best offense. Countries typically don't want foreign soldiers in their cities and towns.
The armies, the difference of all of those armies that had been fighting each other and the Taliban took advantage of that to rule over the whole country.
The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.
Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations.
If you look at all those terrorist groups - I'm talking, going back, Hezbollah, Hamas, al-Nusra, al-Qaeda, ISIS - they're all proxy armies in an Islamic civil war.
Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.
For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.
This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.
The climax is the place where the opposing forces in your story finally clash. This is true whether those opposing forces are two armies or two values inside a character's soul.
Now when the two armies met, many and fierce were the combats waged between them, and blows were given and received, and swords flashed and showers of arrows descended on all sides.
The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.
A handful of men, inured to war, proceed to certain victory, while on the contrary, numerous armies of raw and undisciplined troops are but multitudes of men dragged to the slaughter.
School systems now routinely have more administrators than classroom teachers. They have armies of counselors and therapists and nutritionists and 'multi-cultural learning facilitators.'
Occupying armies have responsibilities, not rights. Their primary responsibility is to withdraw as quickly and expeditiously as possible, in a manner determined by the occupied population.
Britain went to war in 1939 in the name of freedom and democracy, but fielded armies within whose ranks were black and brown men who were regarded and often treated as second-class citizens.
It's with them that we have constituted a liberation front and brought our logistic support to armies to help their countries come out of colonialism and establish a national internal regime.
