#armies

You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders, armies don't. ↗

— John Stossel

#armies #borders #country #cross #either

The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight. ↗

— A. J. P. Taylor

#carried #great #nations #own #peace

Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act which deprived a whole nation of arms as the blackest. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#asia #conquest #england #europe #great-britain

Planning is really the hallmark of any large military formation, and it's typically a weakness in new formations and new armies. ↗

— John R. Allen

#armies #formation #formations #hallmark #large

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. ↗

— Bulent Ecevit

#armies #been #country #difference #each

They called themselves an army. They were planning on recruiting more armies. They were planning on splitting up and forming smaller cells and going into different areas, recruiting more members and just growing until they had started a full scale war in this country. ↗

— Patty Hearst

#armies #army #called #cells #country

She wanted to tell him so much, on the tarmac, the day he left. The world is run by brutal men and the surest proof is their armies. If they ask you to stand still, you should dance. If they ask you to burn the flag, wave it. If they ask you to murder, re-create. Theorem, anti-theorem, corollary, anti-corollary. Underline it twice. It’s all there in the numbers. Listen to your mother. Listen to me, Joshua. Look me in the eyes. I have something to tell you. ↗

— Colum McCann

#armies #children #lessons #let-the-great-world-spin #loss

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. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#brow #built #cannot #demolished #force

Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#african #armies #because #intimidate #keeping

God is on everyone's side... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies. ↗

— Jean Anouilh

#armies #everyone #god #large #last