Quotes about Army Power

Ahmet Gorekci

The Turkish Army will not allow itself to be bound hand and foot by democracy and human rights.

Joshua Oppenheimer

Military rule in Indonesia formally ended in 1998, but the army remains above the law.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Cossacks are the best light troops among all that exist. If I had them in my army, I would go through all the world with them.

Joseph Stalin

Nobody respects a country with a poor army, but everybody respects a country with a good army. I raise my toast to the Finnish army

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

The safety of the fatherland and the happiness of the nation require above all that the world should be shown that our army is still the army that had planted its lance in the walls of Vienna.

The Ottoman Turks had conquered much of Europe, as far even as Vienna. Ataturk although an incredible reformer for democracy, religious freedom, and gender equality, felt that critical to Turkey’s independence and ability of engage in radical reform depended on the World and European and Turkish perception that Turkey was the equal of any European nation and had ruled most at one point.

Orhan Pamuk

The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.

George Armstrong Custer

I can whip all the Indians on the continent with the 7th Cavalry.

He and the 7th Cavalry were themselves whipped and killed shortly thereafter.

Benedict Arnold

There has long subsisted a Jealousy between Congress and the Army. The former have been Jealous of the Power of the latter, and the latter have thought themselves neglected, and ill treated by the former, who have excluded the Army from every Appointment of honor, or profit in the Civil Line. The Common Soldiers are exceedingly disgusted with the Service, and every effort to recruit the Army (except by Temporary Draughts of Militia) has hitherto proved ineffectual.

Arnold had gone over to the British Side, and was providing intelligence information about the Continental Army. Obtaining troops had been exceedingly difficult for the revolutionaries and the Army leadership, including General Washington, were distressed with the way Congress was handling things.

Army Power Quotes