#army

When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#captain #charged #dollars #down #goes

Tens of thousands have been killed or wounded by the Israeli army since 1967. During 2006, the number of Palestinians killed reached 650. Since the beginning of the Israeli occupation in 1967, more than 650,000 Palestinians have been detained by Israel - about 40% of the male population. ↗

— Ismail Haniyeh

#army #been #beginning #detained #during

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

Bush can talk about 100,000 people wanting to go work in the police or in the army. It's because there's nothing else for them to do. They're willing to stand in line to get bombed because they want to take care of their family. ↗

— Seymour Hersh

#army #because #bombed #bush #care

In fact, my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris, France, that under the Constitution she believed that I could never run for president. ↗

— Karen Hughes

#army #because #believed #born #constitution

My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more. ↗

— Barry Humphries

#even #fact #hated #i #more

Look at all the marriages that have been wonderfully successful where fellows finished their army service and came home to go to college on G.I. bills and their wives worked. ↗

— Marta Kristen

#been #bills #came #college #fellows

I was lucky enough myself to have been in Dad's Army for an episode. ↗

— John Leeson

#been #dad #enough #episode #i

I'm convinced that the infantry is the group in the army which gives more and gets less than anybody else. ↗

— Bill Mauldin

#army #convinced #else #gets #gives

When I read that the British army had landed thirty-two thousand troops - and I had realized, not very long before, that Philadelphia only had thirty thousand people in it - it practically lifted me out of my chair. ↗

— David McCullough

#before #british #chair #had #i