Troops Quotes

A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops.

The speed, accuracy and devastating power of American Artillery won confidence and admiration from the troops it supported and inspired fear and respect in their enemy.

The best form of welfare for the troops is first-rate training.

We must force the government to stop the bird migration. We must shoot all birds, field all our men and troops... and force migratory birds to stay where they are.

I dressed my maids as Amazons and rode bare-breasted halfway to Damascus. Louis had a seizure and I damn near died of windburn...but the troops were dazzled!

Certainly we must combine forces . South African troops are within the country.We raised this matter with Mrs [Margaret] Thatcher and Lord [Peter] Carrington when we met them and we wanted to get from them a definite commitment that they were going to get the South African troops out.

You know, I'm pro-troops, but I'm not pro-war.

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.

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.

Nothing is so good for the morale of the troops as occasionally to see a dead general.

FLAG, n. A colored rag borne above troops and hoisted on forts and ships. It appears to serve the same purpose as certain signs that one sees and vacant lots in London

There is the possibility that these troops will be used against us if we are victorious. There is also the possibility that in fact the South Africans are there at the invitation of Britain, because Britain is hesitating to remove them. Hence there is a need for us to combine forces and demand through all political platforms, through all media, the withdrawal of South African troops and action, definite action, by Britain to get those South African troops out.

There are always times where the place of a commander isn't back with his Major State, but onward with his troops.

Army requests immediate permission to surrender in order to save lives of remaining troops.

A compliance with the minutiae of military courtesy is a mark of well-disciplined troops.

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

When a general complains of the morale of his troops, the time has come to look at his own.

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.

Generals who save troops for the next day are always beaten.

The presence of American troops is fueling the insurgency in Iraq, as acknowledged by General Casey and numerous other experts, and is helping terrorist recruiters build their numbers across the globe.

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.

Don't apologize for being patriotic. Support the troops

He who leads troops has no right to think about himself.

Troops would never be deficient in courage, if they could only know how deficient in it their enemies were.

Victor Hernandez, like an orchestral conductor directing his troops...

The Bush administration works closely with a network of rapid response digital brownshirts who work to pressure reporters and their editors for 'undermining support for our troops.'

Rhino-mounted Bantu shock troops could have overthrown the Roman Empire. It never happened.

My men have sometimes failed to take a position, but to defend one, never!

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.

Because the Bush Administration will set no timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, both chambers of Congress acted to make sure our troops will not be left in Iraq indefinitely.

The constant refrain that bringing our troops home would demonstrate a lack of support for them must be one of the most amazing distortions ever foisted on the American public.

Our military deserves leadership that matches their service and patriotism. Getting our troops the pay raise they deserve is the very least we can do to show how much we value everything they do for us.

Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.

The worse the troops the greater the need of artillery.

Terrorize the jam like troops in Pakistan, swingin' through your town like your neighbourhood spiderman!

Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship.

Sir, it is not God who will assemble us on the battlefield, nor position our troops, nor place the cannon, and it is not God who will aim the musket.

The troops of other states have their reputation to gain, the sons of the Alamo have theirs to maintain.

In the tumult and uproar, the battle seems chaotic, but there is no disorder, the troops appear to be milling about in circles but cannot be defeated.

To ensure victory the troops must have confidence in themselves as well as in their commanders.

The only guarantee of the Bill of Rights which continues to have any force and effect is the one prohibiting quartering troops on citizens in time of peace. All the rest have been disposed of by judicial interpretation and legislative whittling.

Obama has not accomplished a key mission: sell his own successes and keep his own (political) troops fired up and ready to go.

Troops must be fed with ammunition and so on but also with information, with images, with visual intelligence. Without these elements troops cannot perform their duties properly. This is what is meant by the logistics of perception.

It's all rot that they put in the war-news about the good humour of the troops, how they are arranging dances almost before they are out of the front-line. We don't act like that because we are in a good humour: we are in a good humour because otherwise we should go to pieces.

Set the troops to their tasks without imparting your designs.

I don't support the troops, America, and neither do you.

We can support our troops without supporting our president.

The distribution of troops devoted to the defence of a place includes a garrison, an occupying force, numerically as weak as possible; a reserve as strong as possible, designed for counterattacking and for providing itself, at the moment it goes into action, with a security service which will guard it from any possible surprise.

Experimenters are the shock troops of science.

Well, if the NATO countries don't make more of their troops usable and don't get the equipment to get them fast where the action is, then the organisation will suffer and will increasingly become irrelevant.