“When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.”

Perhaps my dynamite plants will put an end to war sooner than your [pacifist] congresses. On the day two army corps can annihilate each other in one second all civilized nations will recoil from war in horror.

On the fields of Media, of Arabia, and of Armenia, two great armies will assemble thrice. The host near the bank of the Araxes, they will fall in the land of the great Suleiman.

Franco will bring the army from Castille. The ambassador will complain, causing a schism. Rivera’s men will be part of the force. The great man will be denied entry to the gulf.

An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

Our War of the Revolution was, in good measure, fought as a protest against standing armies.

A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.

In a militia, the character of the laborer, artificer, or tradesman, predominates over that of the soldier: in a standing army, that of the soldier predominates over every other character.

The mob rushes in where individuals fear to tread.