Troops Quotes - page 3

It is madness to attempt to hold. In the first place the troops cannot do it and in the second place if they do not retreat they will be destroyed. I repeat that this order be rescinded or that you find someone else. (Gerd von Rundstedt)
He who leads troops has no right to think about himself. View quote
Walter Model
As the rising sun melts thinly frozen ice, so the Japanese Army is overcoming Chinese troops. View quote
Shunroku Hata
A troop surge in Baghdad would put more American troops at risk to address a problem that is not a military problem. View quote
Norm Coleman
An optimist is somebody who thinks our various political and social systems, schools and churches, support groups and Boy Scout troops, jury trials and congressional committees, are on the up-and-up. That they are intended for the benefit of the members. The reality is that they are designed to keep everyone in line. View quote
Jack McDevitt
When we send our young men and women into harm's way, we have a solemn obligation not to fudge the numbers or shade the truth about why they're going, to care for their families while they're gone, to tend to the soldiers upon their return, and to never ever go to war without enough troops to win the war, secure the peace, and earn the respect of the world. View quote
Barack Obama
Surprise becomes effective when we suddenly face the enemy at one point with far more troops than he expected. This type of numerical superiority is quite distinct from numerical superiority in general: it is the most powerful medium in the art of war. View quote
Carl von Clausewitz
Every man must be made to realize that further retreat is impossible. He must realize with his mind and heart that this is a matter of life and death of the Soviet state, of the life and death of the people of our country...the Nazi troops must be stopped now, before it is too late. View quote
Leonid Brezhnev
Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops in action. View quote
Sigmund Freud
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. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
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)
I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
A general never shows despair. He instills confidence in his troops. He leads them forward, even into the mouth of death. View quote
Rick Riordan
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. View quote
Antoine-Henri Jomini
The traveller must, of course, always be cautious of the overly broad generalisation. But I am an American, and a paucity of data does not stop me from making sweeping, vague, conceptual statements and, if necessary, following these statements up with troops. View quote
George Saunders
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. View quote
James Wolfe
The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle. View quote
Naomi Wolf
However, the fact that the tanks had now been raised to such a pitch of technical perfection that they could cross our undamaged trenches and obstacles did not fail to have a marked effect on our troops. View quote
Paul von Hindenburg
I don't think I have been loved by my troops, but I think I have been respected. View quote
William Westmoreland
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. View quote
Bob Schieffer
I don't run democracy. I train troops to defend democracy and I happen to be their surrogate father and mother as well as their commanding general. (Alfred M. Gray)
We must either reduce the number of our engagements or increase the number of our troops. View quote
Adam Schiff
An apology for the actions of some troops who, of course, are not representative of the majority of the armed forces here, I think that would have been useful and it would have helped to some extent. View quote
Adnan Pachachi
Many of the vicious criminals held there have been caught on the battlefield fighting against American troops and shutting down Guantanamo Bay would just require the military to move them elsewhere. View quote
Bill Shuster
We must remain steadfast in our commitment to our troops, and to those fighting for a free and democratic Iraq because freedom makes our country and the world a safer place. View quote
Chris Chocola