Quotes about army and navy

"There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death."

Stewart, Mary on army and navy
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"If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity."

Sun Tzu on army and navy   

"Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts -- a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments."

Thoreau, Henry David on army and navy   

"That's what an army is -- a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers."

Twain, Mark on army and navy   

"In this country it's a good thing to kill an admiral now and then to encourage the others."

Voltaire on army and navy   

"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."

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt on army and navy   

"When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen."

Washington, George on army and navy
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"O the joy of the strong-brawn'd fighter, towering in the arena in perfect condition, conscious of power, thirsting to meet his opponent."

Whitman, Walt on army and navy   

"Making the world safe for hypocrisy."

Wolfe, Thomas on army and navy   

"Standing armies can never consist of resolute robust men; they may be well-disciplined machines, but they will seldom contain men under the influence of strong passions, or with very vigorous faculties."

Wollstonecraft, Mary on army and navy   

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"Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love."

Yeats, William Butler on army and navy   

"An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy."

Zedong, Mao on army and navy