Troops quotes
196 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"The speed, accuracy and devastating power of American Artillery won confidence and admiration from the troops it supported and inspired fear and respect in their enemy."
"I dressed my maids as Amazons and rode bare-breasted halfway to Damascus. Louis had a seizure and I damn near died of windburn...but the troops were dazzled!"
"Cossacks are the best light troops among all that exist. If I had them in my army, I would go through all the world with them."
"Generals who save troops for the next day are always beaten."
"The Bush administration works closely with a network of rapid response digital brownshirts who work to pressure reporters and their editors for 'undermining support for our troops.'"
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"The worse the troops the greater the need of artillery."
"In the tumult and uproar, the battle seems chaotic, but there is no disorder, the troops appear to be milling about in circles but cannot be defeated."
"To ensure victory the troops must have confidence in themselves as well as in their commanders."
"The troops of other states have their reputation to gain, the sons of the Alamo have theirs to maintain."
"Set the troops to their tasks without imparting your designs."
"I found that if I got up on the stage to entertain the troops I could make them shut up and look."
"The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole."
"Nothing is easy in war. Mistakes are always paid for in casualties and troops are quick to sense any blunder made by their commanders."
"As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have; but, in their stead, / Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, / Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not" (5.3.25-28)."
"A few regular troops from old France, weakened by hunger and sickness, who, when fresh, were unable to withstand the British soldiers, are their general's chief dependence."
"When the US withdrew their troops from Somalia, I recall making a comment that [in] the way the peacekeepers had been withdrawn from Somalia, the impression had been given that the easiest way to unravel a peacekeeping operation is to kill a few soldiers."
"Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations."
"[When I ordered 30,000 more troops into Afghanistan] that was the first time in which I looked out at a crowd of West Point graduates and knew that some of those might not come back because of that decision."
"China can keep her troops on the external frontiers of Tibet, and Tibetans will pledge to accept the appropriate form of union with China."
"I will begin to remove our troops from Iraq immediately."
"We can rattle our sabers all we want but, realistically, we don't have troops for an invasion [Iran] and surgical strikes aren't going to work."
"Toughest decision was early in my presidency when I ordered 30,000 more troops into Afghanistan. As somebody who had run to end a large troop presence overseas."
"We're not going to put the cart before the horse and just think by sending more troops, we're automatically going to make Americans safe."
"It still puts burden on some troops of ours who are there [in Afghanistan and Iraq] as advisors and facilitators."
"No amphibious attack in history has approached this one in size. Along miles of coastline there were hundreds of vessels and small boats afloat and ant-like files of advancing troops ashore."
