#army

The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility. ↗

— Oded Fehr

#how #i #i think #learned #lesson

I thought to myself, Join the army. It's free. So I figured while I'm here I'll lose a few pounds. ↗

— John Candy

#few #figured #free #here #i

It's a tough case and the first time Reacher needs to recruit somebody to help him out. He uses a woman he knew in the army she's a fascinating character. ↗

— Lee Child

#case #character #fascinating #first #first time

Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#army #better #church #day #every

At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#bullets #discovered #i #injustice #real

But the same thing was true in the army. You slept in a barracks with all kinds of people of every nationality, every trade, every character and quality you can imagine, and that was a good experience. ↗

— Shelby Foote

#barracks #character #every #experience #good

Army life was rough. Would you believe it, they actually wanted me to pitch three times a week. ↗

— Whitey Ford

#army #believe #life #me #my life

What, Sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty. Whenever governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins. ↗

— Elbridge Gerry

#army #attempt #bane #destroy #establishment

In that moment, I understand the way that the noblest yearning for duty and sacrifice can be mixed up with all that is savage and shameful, like in the Bible, where a just and merciful God tells you to kill everyone, kill the children, kill the livestock, kill John Polling, leave nothing alive to sully this pure and just world. Except when it's all done you find out that wasn't really God after all, just some politician, or maybe it was God, but he taps you on the shoulder and says, 'No, dude, that isn't what I meant,' and leaves you sitting in a Dairy Queen in Bothell with blood on your hands and no further orders... ↗

— Stuart Archer Cohen

#experience #faith #god #hope-lost #lando

The finishing off of the encircled enemy army is to be left to the Luftwaffe. ↗

— Franz Halder

#enemy #finishing #left #luftwaffe #off