Army Quotes

"We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are called heroes."
-Robert Maynard Hutchins

"Every army in the history of the world has always had some deserters, usually much greater than we have today, because once again every soldier who's joined the Army since 1973 is a volunteer, and the numbers are very small and they are almost completely for -- people desert almost completely for personal or financial reasons."
-Bryan Hilferty

"The Army is America. We are America's sons and daughters. America's sons and daughters are getting tattoos. That means that American soldiers are getting tattoos."
-Bryan Hilferty

"Why can't they have gay people in the army? Personally, I think they are just afraid of a thousand guys with M16s going, "Who'd you call a faggot?""
-Jon Stewart

"American youth tend to have tattoos now. The demographic is changing. If a kid is in good shape and passes all the tests, do Americans really want us to say no to him because he's got tattoos? I don't think so."
-Bryan Hilferty

"'Tis not seasonable to call a man a traitor that has an army at his heels."
-John Selden

"Not everyone is qualified to join this team. To enlist you have to both meet our high standards and be motivated to serve your country — motivation or qualification alone is not enough."
-Bryan Hilferty

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

"Not taking jailbirds has been our policy for decades."
-Bryan Hilferty

"Only opportunity for people our age is the fast-food [places] or the Army."
-Deshay Woods

"[The] Army says you are a violent man."
-Scott Pelley

"It's not just a few Army troops that would be moving there. It would be in the hundreds."
-Merrell Lane

"Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army."
-Edward Everett Hale

"There is no supervision at all, and the army just stews in its own juice."
-Alexander Golts

"Thank you so very, very much. Look at us all. We're an army."
-Kevin Drew

"Something in the Army changed him ... he came home as an adult."
-Jessica Wolf

"I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives."
-Billy Connolly

"The army commander is critically injured."
-Chandra Fernando

"It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions."
-Daniel Defoe

"It's a 24-hour operation. We've got a virtual army out there."
-Steve Stengel

"Drug use is certainly part of life in the Army."
-Chris Gerolmo

"We're an army, ladies and gentlemen. We're an army of friends."
-Kevin Drew

"I buy everything at the Salvation Army."
-Jay Mccarroll

"So many of the boys from town were in the Army."
-Sara Nelson

"The PLA is a very entrepreneurial army."
-Paul Godwin

"The army is under orders to defend every place."
-Helmut Kohl

"In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than to advance."
-Joseph Stalin

"This shirt is borrowed. These pants are from the Salvation Army."
-Andre Haydel