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The sense of war, the extraordinary bravery of the Allied armies, the numbers, the losses, the real suffering that disappears in time and commemorative oratory, are not marked out in any red guidebook of the emotions, but they are present if you look.


John Vinocur


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All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.


Abraham Lincoln


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In the case of the armies at Fredericksburg it would have been, to say the least, very hazardous to give counter-attack, the Federal position being about as strong as ours from which we had driven them back.


James Longstreet


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A handful of men, inured to war, proceed to certain victory, while on the contrary, numerous armies of raw and undisciplined troops are but multitudes of men dragged to the slaughter.


Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus


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Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen mounted Spaniards to defeat Indian armies numbering in the thousands.


Jared Diamond


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The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.


David Herbert Lawrence


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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.


Thomas Jefferson


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We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.


Thomas Jefferson


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By fighting a limited, defensive war, America permitted the enemy to endlessly re-supply their field armies.


Nguyen Cao Ky


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History shows that there are no invincible armies.


Joseph Stalin


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