#armies

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Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.


Gloria Steinem


#armies #behave #being #chooses #dirty

Armies are not only for offensives.


Bashar al-Assad


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The majority of soldiers and officers of the Soviet Army and the allied armies treated the local population humanely.


Antony Beevor


#armies #army #humanely #local #majority

The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute.


Rebecca Harding Davis


#armies #camped #destruction #entered #every

National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.


J. F. C. Fuller


#armies #demented #fight #first #generally

Growing up, others girls wanted to dance and help their mums with the cooking. I liked to play soccer with the boys. Or I'd be off on my own, tilting mirrors towards the sun in order to burn armies of ants. That was my idea of fun.


Ali Larter


#armies #burn #cooking #dance #fun

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


#any #armies #bravery #disappears #emotions

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


#armies #asia #blue #chest #combined

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


#armies #back #been #being #case

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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