Quotes with troops

  • 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.
  • 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.

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  • Aristide Briand A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests.
    Aristide Briand
    French statesman (1862 - 1932)
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  • Sun Tzu Therefore the skilful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overthrows their kingdom without lengthy operations in the field.
    Sun Tzu
    Chinese general and strategist (544 - 496)
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  • Douglas Macarthur A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
    Douglas Macarthur
    American general in WO II (1880 - 1964)
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  • Black Kettle Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship.
    Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970)
    Black Kettle
    Native Indian Cheyenne chief (1803 - 1868)
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  • Bill Shuster America's veterans and troops serving abroad today fought hard to preserve our red, white and blue, from the Revolutionary War to today's Global War Against Terrorism, and Congress' action today is appropriate for one of our most sacred symbols.
    Bill Shuster
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Adnan Pachachi 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.
    Adnan Pachachi
    Iraqi and Emirati politician (1923 - 2019)
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  • Bob Schieffer 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
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Barbara Mikulski Do we want an Attorney General who will play politics with the law, play politics with the court and just play politics with international conventions designed to protect our troops? I do not want to play that kind of politics. I am going to vote against Alberto Gonzales.
    Barbara Mikulski
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Arthur Hays Sulzberger For if the Germans do not help defend the West, American and Canadian troops must cross the seas to do the job, and I venture to believe that the troops - if not the statesmen - regard this as an interference at least in their own domestic affairs.
    Arthur Hays Sulzberger
    American newspaper publisher (1891 - 1968)
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  • Barbara Boxer For the sake of the troops, for the love of the troops, we must not add yet another casualty to this war. We must not let truth be a casualty of this war.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Alfred M. Gray 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.
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  • William Shakespeare I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Douglas Macarthur I see that old flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.
    Douglas Macarthur
    American general in WO II (1880 - 1964)
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  • Anthony Wayne I shall begin my march for Camp tomorrow morning. It was not in my power to move until I could procure shoes for the troops almost barefoot.
    Anthony Wayne
    American politican and statesman (1745 - 1796)
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  • Bill Hicks I was in the unenviable position of being for the war, but against the troops.
    Love, Laughter and Truth
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Al Franken 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
    American comedian, politician and author (1951 - )
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  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali 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
    Egyptian politician and diplomat (1922 - 2016)
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  • Adam Ferguson Mankind have always wandered or settled, agreed or quarrelled, in troops and companies.
    An Essay on the History of Civil Society I, III
    Adam Ferguson
    Scottish philosopher and historian (1723 - 1816)
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  • Bill Shuster 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.
    Bill Shuster
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Bill Shuster Our military commanders have said over and over again that a timetable for withdrawal sends the wrong message to our troops, but more importantly to our enemy.
    Bill Shuster
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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