Never try to take a fortified hill, especially if the Army on top is bigger than you are
I was just kidding, shuck-face," Minho said. "Let's all go over there. She could have an army of psycho girl ninjas hiding in that shack of hers. " "Psycho girl ninjas?" Newt repeated, his voice showing he was surprised, if not annoyed, by Minho's additude.
It is often easier to assemble armies than it is to assemble army revenues.
The Romans thought of themselves as the chosen people, yet they built the greatest army on Earth by recruiting warriors from any background.
Women and men will have to go through the same physical test before they get into these ground combat jobs, and the test will increase over time for again both Marine Corps and the Army just to make sure everyone is physically fit enough to go through these jobs, to get through this training.
Since I was 19, I've had the most fun possible every single day, even when I had a rough life. It was the army which taught me about life, and the theater which taught me how good it could be.
The enemy are only 50 yards from us. We are heavily outnumbered. We are under devastating fire. I shall not withdraw an inch but will fight to our last man and our last round.
A man strikes you, make him bleed. He makes you bleed, you break his bones. He breaks your bones, kill him. Being hit is inevitable, strike back twice as hard.
There are two tendencies in all our war talk. . . . The first is to boast, if not of ourselves and our deeds, at least of our army, our corps, our regiments. The other is to find fault with, to criticize, to censure, to condemn others. If there is a victory, we gained it and must have the credit of it. If there is a failure, it was the fault of the other fellow,--he must be blamed for it.
Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man.
We are not governed by armies or police, but by ideas.
All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.
Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.
But didn't you say you were satisfied with your life?" "Word games," I dismissed. "Every army needs a flag.
There is only one tactical principle which is not subject to change. It is to use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wound, death, and destruction on the enemy in the minimum amount of time.
There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.
One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
I was first introduced to Kafka's writing during my compulsory army-service basic training. During that period, Kafka's fiction felt hyperrealistic.
The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth.
The only way to form an army to be confided in, was a systematic discipline, by which means all men may be made heroes.