#armies

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 Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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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. ↗

— Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

#certain #contrary #dragged #handful #inured

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. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#artist #business #dreadful #fighters #follow

History shows that there are no invincible armies. ↗

— Joseph Stalin

#history #invincible #shows

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

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

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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. ↗

— Ahmed Ben Bella

#brought #colonialism #come #constituted #countries

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. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#air #armies #expression #fleets #good