The Army has carried the American … ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race creed and color but also on ability.
I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the army. Attributed to President Abraham Lincoln by General James B. Fry.Allen Thorndike Rice Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln chapter 22 p. 393 (1886). This supposedly had been part of Lincolns response to a young volunteer soldier who had come to Lincolns office asking his help with a grievance. The story has been repeated in numerous books on Lincoln: Alexander K. McClure Abe Lincolns Yarns and Stories p. 162 (1904 Ida M. Tarbell The Life of Abraham Lincoln vol. 2 p. 153 (1917 and Caroline T. Harnsberger The Lincoln Treasury p. 14 (1950).
The chief foundations of all states new as well as old or composite are good laws and good arms; and as there cannot be good laws where the state is not well armed it follows that where they are well armed they have good laws.
The Long March The Red Army is not afraid of hardship on the march the long march. Ten thousand waters and a thousand mountains are nothing. The Five Sierras meander like small waves the summits of Wumeng pour on the plain like balls of clay. Cliffs under clouds are warm and washed below by the River Gold Sand. Iron chains are cold reaching over the Tatu River. The far snows of Minshan only make us happy and when the army pushes through we all laugh. October 1935
A great war leaves the country with three armies: An army of cripples an army of mourners and an army of thieves.
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.
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
REAR n. In American military matters that exposed part of the army that is nearest to Congress.
Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision.
They may attack me with an army of six hundred syllogisms; and if I do not recant they will proclaim me a heretic.
Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
An invasion of armies can be resisted but not an idea whose time has come.
Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.
The Army has carried the American … ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race creed and color but also on ability.
I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the army. Attributed to President Abraham Lincoln by General James B. Fry.Allen Thorndike Rice Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln chapter 22 p. 393 (1886). This supposedly had been part of Lincolns response to a young volunteer soldier who had come to Lincolns office asking his help with a grievance. The story has been repeated in numerous books on Lincoln: Alexander K. McClure Abe Lincolns Yarns and Stories p. 162 (1904 Ida M. Tarbell The Life of Abraham Lincoln vol. 2 p. 153 (1917 and Caroline T. Harnsberger The Lincoln Treasury p. 14 (1950).
The chief foundations of all states new as well as old or composite are good laws and good arms; and as there cannot be good laws where the state is not well armed it follows that where they are well armed they have good laws.
The Long March The Red Army is not afraid of hardship on the march the long march. Ten thousand waters and a thousand mountains are nothing. The Five Sierras meander like small waves the summits of Wumeng pour on the plain like balls of clay. Cliffs under clouds are warm and washed below by the River Gold Sand. Iron chains are cold reaching over the Tatu River. The far snows of Minshan only make us happy and when the army pushes through we all laugh. October 1935
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
An army marches on its stomach.
I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable procures success to the weak and esteem to all.
An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep.