ARMY

Related Subjects: Discipline, Navy, Sailor, Soldier, War

1. A man in armor is his armor's slave.—BROWNING, Herakles

2. Nations are quite capable of starving every other side of life,—education, sanitation, housing, public health, everything that contributes to life, physical, intellectual, moral, and spiritual, in order to maintain their armaments.—G. LOWES DICKINSON, The Choice Before Us
   

3. It has been calculated by the ablest politicians that no State, without being soon exhausted, can maintain above the hundredth part of its members in arms and idleness.—GIBBON, Decline and Fall
   

4. We know that the end of the education provided by our army is not, and never has been, the production of war-like militarists, but rather of good and reliable citizens.—ADOLF HITLER, Speech, Sept. 15, 1935
   

5. It came upon me freshly how the secret of uniform was to make a crowd solid, dignified, impersonal: to give it the singleness and tautness of an upstanding man. This death's livery which walled its bearers from ordinary life, was sign that they had sold their wills and bodies to the State: and contracted themselves into a service not the less abject for that its beginning was voluntary.—LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, Revolt in the Desert
   

6. The nature of arms decides the composition of armies, their plans of campaign, their marches, positions, and encampments, their order of battle, and the design of their fortifications; this sets in constant opposition the military system of the ancients and that of modern times.—NAPOLEON, Precis of the Wars of Julius Caesar
   

7. The root of the reluctance of the British Army to adopt modern methods of war lies in its snobbery. And this does not only apply to the love of horse-flesh (as compared with the skilled mechanic's love for his machine) it also applies for example to our Territorial Army, whose officers have been chosen or have chosen themselves on a social basis.—TOM WINTRINGHAM, New Ways of War
   

8. An army cannot elect its officers or vote on what its tactics and strategy shall be. It is the raw stuff of democracy that is called for: men who feel free, and feel themselves by natural right the equals of their fellows; men who accept regulations and order—restrictions on their individual actions—because they realize the need for these in strengthening their collective actions; men who accept commands as part of inescapable methods by which they themselves can achieve their own desires and aims—an army of free men.—TOM WINTRINGHAM, New Ways of War
   

9. Totalitarian methods produce an army fit for war. Our own methods of the past have not produced such an army. But we can find ways to make such an army, which will not merely retain democracy but use its vital force to make something far better than the Nazis can ever produce.—TOM WINTRINGHAM, New Ways of War