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Quotes about army and navy
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There is something about going to sea. A little bit of discipline, self-discipline and humility are required. (Bierce Ambrose)
We have in the service the scum of the earth as common soldiers. (Bierce Ambrose)
Valor, glory, firmness, skill, generosity, steadiness in battle and ability to rule -- these constitute the duty of a soldier. They flow from his own nature. (Bierce Ambrose)
The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island. (Bierce Ambrose)
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The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes. (Bierce Ambrose)
In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time mutinous and full of faction, until some popular general, who understands the art of conciliating the soldiery, and who possesses the true spirit of command, shall draw the eyes of all men upon himself. Armies will obey him on his personal account. There is no other way of securing military obedience in this state of things. (Bierce Ambrose)
The General Order is always to maneuver in a body and on the attack; to maintain strict but not pettifogging discipline; to keep the troops constantly at the ready; to employ the utmost vigilance on sentry go; to use the bayonet on every possible occasion; and to follow up the enemy remorselessly until he is utterly destroyed. (Bierce Ambrose)
Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely and systematically that might is not right. The fact is obvious. The might is in the hundred men who obey. The right (or what is held to be right) is in the one man who commands them. (Bierce Ambrose)
War is too important a matter to be left to the military. (Bierce Ambrose)
There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea. (Bierce Ambrose)
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten. (Bierce Ambrose)
I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else. (Bierce Ambrose)
Come on, you sons of bitches! Do you want to live forever? (Bierce Ambrose)
I must have the gentleman to haul and draw with the mariner, and the mariner with the gentleman. I would know him, that would refuse to set his hand to a rope, but I know there is not any such here. (Bierce Ambrose)
The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor. (Bierce Ambrose)
The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most. (Bierce Ambrose)
Rogues, would you live forever? (Bierce Ambrose)
The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature. (Bierce Ambrose)
Conscription may have been good for the country, but it damn near killed the army. (Bierce Ambrose)
Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea. (Bierce Ambrose)
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. A man in a jail has more room, better food and commonly better company. (Bierce Ambrose)
Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children? (Bierce Ambrose)
There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen. (Bierce Ambrose)
The army is the true nobility of our country. (Bierce Ambrose)
History shows that there are no invincible armies. (Bierce Ambrose)
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