Troops famous quotes

We must either reduce the number of our engagements or increase the number of our troops.
-- Adam Schiff

#Numbers #Troops #Engagement

Military troops were withdrawn from Chechnya on Dec. 31, 1996.
-- Akhmad Kadyrov

#Military #Troops #Chechnya

If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces, that is eventually going to have an effect on soldiers and troops who are actually going to believe that and it's wrong. It's just wrong.
-- Al Franken

#Believe #Soldier #Troops

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.'
-- Al Gore

#Editors #Support #Troops

Nato allies have been looking at various missile-defence options for some time. Nato itself is developing protections for our deployed troops.
-- Anders Fogh Rasmussen

#Allies #Troops #Protection

Actually I can't imagine Nato troops on the ground and I think it's also important to send that very clear message to the UN and other organisations right now so that appropriate plans can be in place in due time and the Gaddafi regime can collapse soon.
-- Anders Fogh Rasmussen

#Thinking #Important #Troops

I don't think we [the USA] need more troops. I think we need to be less worried about civilian casualties.
-- Ann Coulter

#Thinking #Usa #Troops

Canada used to be...one of our most...most loyal friends, and vice versa. I mean, Canada sent troops to Vietnam. Was Vietnam less containable and more of a threat than Saddam Hussein?
-- Ann Coulter

#Mean #Vices #Troops

Logistics comprises the means and arrangements which work out the plans of strategy and tactics. Strategy decides where to act; logistics brings the troops to this point.
-- Antoine-Henri Jomini

#Mean #Work Out #Troops

We're all looking for a plan that will work. The current plan is not working, and 21,500 additional troops -- it's a snowball in July. It's not going to work.
-- Arlen Specter

#July #Troops #Currents

Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship.
-- Black Kettle

#Friendship #Troops #Glad

But if you're going to go out on a military unit, you've got to allow yourself to be under the control of the commander because you really could put the troops in danger.
-- Bob Schieffer

#Military #Troops #Literature

In Yugoslavia, I'd asked for additional forces too. I even went to meet the French prime minister, and I proposed additional forces... Nobody wanted to send troops.
-- Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#Yugoslavia #Troops #Prime

Generals do not always run wars the way they would like to, nor the troops under them.
-- Christopher Vokes

#Running #War #Troops

And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U.S. troops near the close of the war.
-- Dana Rohrabacher

#War #Troops #Philippines

Prices are always lower when the troops are in the street.
-- David Bonderman

#Troops #Streets

Obama has not accomplished a key mission: sell his own successes and keep his own (political) troops fired up and ready to go.
-- David Corn

#Keys #Political #Troops

Besides if people really want to support the troops they would vote democrat.
-- David Cross

#People #Support #Troops

That's what supporting the troops is really all about - making sure American grunts get the right stuff!
-- David Hackworth

#Troops #Stuff #Right Stuff

You can't lead your troops if your troops do not trust you.
-- Diane Ravitch

#Troops #Our Troops

In the end, what your own troops do is more important than who they are marching against.
-- Don Meyer

#Basketball #Important #Troops

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
-- Douglas MacArthur

#Inspirational #Leadership #Troops

Troops would never be deficient in courage, if they could only know how deficient in it their enemies were.
-- Duke of Wellington

#Courage #Enemy #Troops

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.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

#Military #Enemy #Troops

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!
-- Eleanor of Aquitaine

#Troops #Maids #Halfway

There are always times where the place of a commander isn't back with his Major State, but onward with his troops.
-- Erwin Rommel

#Troops #States

The best form of welfare for the troops is first-rate training.
-- Erwin Rommel

#Training #Troops #Firsts

The distribution of troops devoted to the defence of a place includes a garrison, an occupying force, numerically as weak as possible; a reserve as strong as possible, designed for counterattacking and for providing itself, at the moment it goes into action, with a security service which will guard it from any possible surprise.
-- Ferdinand Foch

#Strong #Troops #Action

I have defended the interests of France at the G8 in Washington; afterwards I was at Chicago to announce the withdrawal of French troops from Afghanistan; I have participated in two European summits, so I have fully respected the engagements I made to the French.
-- Francois Hollande

#Two #Chicago #Troops

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.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

#Dirty #Reading #Troops

Army requests immediate permission to surrender in order to save lives of remaining troops.
-- Friedrich Paulus

#Army #Order #Troops

Mussolini is quite humiliated because our troops have not moved a step forward. Even today they have not succeeded in advancing and have halted in front of the first French fortification which put up some resistance.
-- Galeazzo Ciano

#War #Troops #World

Yeah, I volunteered to support the troops, and get out there and show them that we care about them.
-- Gary Sinise

#Support #Care #Troops

When a general complains of the morale of his troops, the time has come to look at his own.
-- George C. Marshall

#Troops #Complaining #Looks

I have a very deep concern about President Obama putting in another 21,000 troops into Afghanistan with the promise of more to come.
-- George McGovern

#Promise #President #Troops

Well, if the NATO countries don't make more of their troops usable and don't get the equipment to get them fast where the action is, then the organisation will suffer and will increasingly become irrelevant.
-- George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen

#Country #Suffering #Troops

The all-volunteer army works. It works particularly when we pay our troops well.
-- George W. Bush

#Army #Volunteer #Troops

The only guarantee of the Bill of Rights which continues to have any force and effect is the one prohibiting quartering troops on citizens in time of peace. All the rest have been disposed of by judicial interpretation and legislative whittling.
-- H. L. Mencken

#Rights #Troops #Citizens

Truman fired the popular Gen. Douglas MacArthur because he disobeyed orders in the Korean War. Johnson knew that he had reached the endgame in Vietnam when Gen. William Westmoreland, the top commander in Vietnam, requested 240,000 more troops in 1968 for the prolonged war that also could not be won.
-- Helen Thomas

#War #Order #Troops

I think it's been the topic of conversation for every one... If the U.S. is hit again, how are we going to handle it? Our troops are all over the place.
-- Holly Johnson

#Thinking #Troops #Topics

Poets need be in no degree jealous of the geologists. The stony science, with buried creations for its domains, and half an eternity charged with its annals, possesses its realms of dim and shadowy fields, in which troops of fancies already walk like disembodied ghosts in the old fields of Elysium, and which bid fair to be quite dark and uncertain enough for all the purposes of poesy for centuries to come.
-- Hugh Miller

#Jealous #Dark #Troops

Terrorize the jam like troops in Pakistan, swingin' through your town like your neighbourhood spiderman!
-- Inspectah Deck

#Rap #Towns #Troops

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.
-- James Wolfe

#Soldier #Troops #France

Because the Bush Administration will set no timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, both chambers of Congress acted to make sure our troops will not be left in Iraq indefinitely.
-- Jan Schakowsky

#Iraq #Troops #Withdrawal

Three years into the war, tens of thousands of American troops remain targets of a growing Iraqi insurgency.
-- Jan Schakowsky

#War #Years #Troops

Rhino-mounted Bantu shock troops could have overthrown the Roman Empire. It never happened.
-- Jared Diamond

#Rhinos #Troops #Empires

The troops of other states have their reputation to gain, the sons of the Alamo have theirs to maintain.
-- Jefferson Davis

#Son #Troops #Gains

I have repeatedly said, when asked, that if the stories about me helped inspired our troops and rally a nation, then perhaps there was some good.
-- Jessica Lynch

#Troops #Stories #Inspired

Today they have proven once again that the mainstream media can't print enough bad news about our troops.
-- Joe Scarborough

#Media #Troops #News

A compliance with the minutiae of military courtesy is a mark of well-disciplined troops.
-- John A. Lejeune

#Military #Marine #Troops

A major of colored troops is here with his party capturing negroes, with or without their consent....They are being conscripted.
-- John A. Logan

#War #Party #Troops

Morale is good; troops are confident; leaders are capable.
-- John Abizaid

#Military #Leader #Troops

Nobody's more mindful of the sacrifices of our troops than those of us that command them.
-- John Abizaid

#Sacrifice #Troops #Command

American troops have not only occupied Ulster but are arriving in increasing numbers in England.
-- John Amery

#Numbers #Ulster #Troops

If I have any choice I would prefer Western Troops.
-- John Buford

#Gdp #Choices #Troops

The presence of American troops is fueling the insurgency in Iraq, as acknowledged by General Casey and numerous other experts, and is helping terrorist recruiters build their numbers across the globe.
-- John Conyers

#Iraq #Numbers #Troops

Senator Kerry voted to undermine the troops in the field, and that is not only inexcusable, it is reprehensible.
-- John Ensign

#Troops #Fields

To send our troops, our ships, our planes to this war is ridiculous.
-- John Hewson

#War #Troops #Ships

A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops.
-- John J. Pershing

#Leadership #Leader #Troops

In the Armed Services Committee, we endeavored to put forth proposals that would help alleviate some of that stress, both for the troops and for their families.
-- John M. McHugh

#Stress #Troops #Helping

The study also included the disturbing revelation that most of the troops who reported having mental health problems also reported that they did not seek or did not receive care for their problems.
-- John M. McHugh

#Troops #Care #Study

Well British troops are superb in the field in terms of conflict.
-- John Major

#Fields #Troops #Conflict

Feed the troops on victory.
-- John Monash

#Victory #Troops

The first serious infowar is now engaged. The field of battle is WikiLeaks. You are the troops.
-- John Perry Barlow

#Battle #Troops #Wikileaks

As costs mount, in lives and dollars, it is natural to second guess, but one lesson I hope we have learned is that the U.S. cannot go it alone in a policy that leaves American troops taking all the risk and American taxpayers paying all of the costs.
-- John Spratt

#Risk #Troops #Dollars

Victor Hernandez, like an orchestral conductor directing his troops...
-- Jon Champion

#Football #Troops #Conductor

Troops of heroes undistinguished die.
-- Joseph Addison

#Hero #Battle #Troops

Virtues go ever in troops; they go so thick, that sometimes some are hid in the crowd; which yet are, but appear not.
-- Joseph Hall

#Troops #Crowds #Sometimes

If we are going to commit American troops, we must be certain they have a clear mission, an achievable goal and an exit strategy.
-- Karen Hughes

#Goal #Troops #Exit

Anger is precious. A silverback uses anger to maintain order and warn his troops of danger. When my father beat his chest, it was to say, Beware, listen, I am in charge. I am angry to protect you, because that is what I was born to do. Here in my domain there is no one to protect.
-- Katherine Applegate

#Father #Order #Troops

These troops know how to shoot and kill and I expect they will.
-- Kathleen Blanco

#Troops

Benchmarks, yes, we want the Iraqi government to do the things that will show progress. But to say, American troops are going to leave, no matter what's happening on the ground, is surrender. There is no other word for it.
-- Kay Bailey Hutchison

#Government #Progress #Troops

I found that if I got up on the stage to entertain the troops I could make them shut up and look.
-- Kenneth Williams

#Troops #Looks #Host

Officers in command of colored troops are in constant habit of pressing all able-bodied slaves into the military service of the U.S.
-- Lovell Rousseau

#Military #War #Troops

We take our international responsibilities very seriously and will not withdraw our troops from Iraq... Otherwise, the victims of terror in Madrid will have died in vain.
-- Marek Belka

#Responsibility #Iraq #Troops

Forty-five percent of Iraqi citizens think it is morally okay to attack American troops.
-- Marty Meehan

#Thinking #Citizens #Troops

Experimenters are the shock troops of science.
-- Max Planck

#Science #Troops #Shock

I don't support the troops, America, and neither do you.
-- Michael Moore

#America #Support #Troops

I don't 'support the troops' or any of those other hollow and hypocritical platitudes uttered by Republicans and frightened Democrats. Here's what I do support: I support them coming home. I support them being treated well.
-- Michael Moore

#Home #Support #Troops

The new troops in Iraq need to be Iraqi troops.
-- Mitch McConnell

#Iraq #Needs #Troops

These mercenaries, I swear by God, those who are still in Washington, they have sent their troops to be burned.
-- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

#Military #Troops #Burned

I can say, and I am responsible for what I am saying, that [American troops] have started to commit suicide under the walls of Baghdad. We will encourage them to commit more suicides quickly,
-- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

#Suicide #Wall #Troops

The troops were occasionally occupied in pursuing scattered bands going north or south, and on three occasions the large camp of Sitting Bull ventured south of the Canadian border, and important expeditions were sent against them.
-- Nelson A. Miles

#Important #Troops #Borders

Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.
-- Nick Clooney

#Mistake #Iraq #Troops

I was never Vice Chair of the Troops Out Movement.
-- Peter Hain

#Troops #Movement #Vices

If you go back into military history, the person who's leading the troops ought to be in with the troops and not just standing on the backline sending them into battle.
-- Richard Branson

#Military #Battle #Troops

I ask you to remember that the Japanese troops are a strictly disciplined force and perform their duties with as little harmfulness as possible.
-- Sadao Araki

#Littles #Troops #Remember

Supporting the troops has got to mean more than bumper stickers on pickup trucks, my friends. We need to give them what they need.
-- Solomon Ortiz

#Mean #Giving #Troops

Who could not conquer with such troops as these?
-- Stonewall Jackson

#Military #Troops #Conquer

My first mission is to take care of our troops. I take that mission very personally.
-- Tim Walz

#Care #Firsts #Troops

You know, I'm pro-troops, but I'm not pro-war.
-- Toby Keith

#War #Troops #Pro War

Don't apologize for being patriotic. Support the troops
-- Toby Keith

#Patriotic #Support #Troops

You can support the troops but not the president.
-- Tom DeLay

#Support #President #Troops

We can support our troops without supporting our president.
-- Trent Lott

#Support #President #Troops

Wherever the enemy goes let our troops go also.
-- Ulysses S. Grant

#Military #Enemy #Troops

He who leads troops has no right to think about himself.
-- Walter Model

#Thinking #Troops

It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back. Now, there has been some removal of the foreign forces.
-- Warren Christopher

#Moving #Troops #Helpful

Nothing is so good for the morale of the troops as occasionally to see a dead general.
-- William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim

#Army #Troops #Morale

I don't think I have been loved by my troops, but I think I have been respected.
-- William Westmoreland

#Military #Thinking #Troops

Sir, it is not God who will assemble us on the battlefield, nor position our troops, nor place the cannon, and it is not God who will aim the musket.
-- Winfield Scott Hancock

#Troops #Dignity #Cannons