Quotes about Troops
Now, O daughter of troops, mobilize your troops; for a siege is laid against us! With a rod they will strike the cheek of the judge of Israel.
- Micah 5:1
Look at your troops—they are like your women! The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire consumes their bars.
- Nahum 3:13
The king was enraged, and he sent his troops to destroy those murderers and burn their city.
- Matthew 22:7
This man was seized by the Jews, and they were about to kill him when I came with my troops to rescue him. For I had learned that he is a Roman citizen,
- Acts 23:27
"King David commanded Joab, Abishai and Ittai, 'Be gentle with the young man Absalom for my sake.' And all the troops heard the king giving orders concerning Absalom to each of the commanders."
- 2 Samuel 18:5
I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.
- George W. Bush
Nothing is easy in war. Mistakes are always paid for in casualties and troops are quick to sense any blunder made by their commanders.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The day when two army corps can annihilate each other in one second, all civilized nations, it is to be hoped, will recoil from war and discharge their troops.
- Alfred Nobel
Some commanders can move troops so as to get the maximum distance out of them without fatigue, while others can wear them out in a few days without accomplishing so much.
- Ulysses S. Grant
I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.
- George W. Bush
When Hillary served in the Senate, I saw her work day and night as a member of the Armed Services Committee - working with Republicans and Democrats to keep our military strong and protect our troops and their families.
- Madeleine Albright
During the early 1950s the hangman operating with the cold war troops was McCarthyism. For years it decimated social organizations, throttled free expression, and intimidated into bleak silence not only liberals and radicals but men in high and protected places.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.