It is the love of the people; it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution, which gives you your army 168 and your navy, and infuses into both that liberal obedience, without which your army would be a base rabble, and your navy nothing but rotten timber.

-Burke, Edmund
  On Conciliation with  America.

Commanders and senior officers should die with troops. The honour of the British Empire and the British Army is at stake.

-Churchill, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer
  Telegram to Wavell, the commander in chief of armed forces in Singapore,10 Feb, after being told that a  Japanese victory was inevitable. Recalled in The Second World War, vol.4 (1951).

The services of a menial servant, taking him as an example of unproductive labour,'generally perish in the very instant of their performance'öand forthwith into this galley, along with the menial servant, goes the sovereign, accompanied by all the army, the navy, and the civil service, followed by churchmen, lawyers, buffoons and opera dancers. All theseöand it is a hard sayingörender services which perish in the very instant of their performance. 368

-Gray, Alexander
The Development of Economic Doctrine.

There is, then, over the affairs of the armya universal conspiracy of silence, of childlike mysteries, of clannishness, routine and intrigue.

-Jaure'  s, (Auguste MarieJoseph) Jean
  L'Arme¤  e nouvelle.

Efficiency†is measured at the extremities.You do not find the efficiency of an army at headquarters, nor of a firminhead office.It isattheremotest pointötheprivate soldier or humble legionary on the distant frontier, the girl at the counter or the branch-office junior salesman öthat the really decisive test of an army or a firm is made.It istherethat all theinstructionand knowledge of relevant facts and procedural disciplines bear fruitöor wither on the tree.

-Jay, SirAntony Rupert
  Management and Machiavelli.

The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army isthe non-commissioned man!

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  'The'Eathen'.

We lost sight of one of the cardinal maxims of guerrilla war: the guerrilla wins if he does not lose. The conventional army loses if it does not win.

-Kissinger, HenryAlfred
  On the Vietnam War. In Foreign  Affairs,  Jan.

We were a self-centred army without parade or gesture, devoted to freedom, the second of man's creeds, a purpose so ravenous that it devoured all our strength, a hope so transcendent that ourearlier ambitions faded in its glare.

-Arabia
  Seven Pillars of  Wisdom, ch.1.

Igreet you as the advanceguard of the world proletarian army. The hour is not far off when†the German people will turn their weapons againsttheircapitalist exploiters. The sun of the socialist revolution has already risen.

-Lenin,Vladimir Ilyich originally Vladimir IlyichUlyanov
  Speech, Petrograd,16  Apr.

I have not time to say any more, but to beg you will give my duty to the Queen, and let her know her army has had a glorious victory. MonsieurTallard and two other generals are in my coach, and I am following the rest.

-Marlborough,John Churchill, 1st Duke of
  Note written on a tavern bill to his wife, Sarah,13  Aug, after the Battle of Blenheim.

   Soaring through wider zones that pricked his scars With memory of the old revolt from Awe, He reached the middle height, and at the stars, Which are the brain of heaven, he looked, and sank. Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank, The army of unalterable law.

-Meredith, George
  Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of Earth,'Lucifer in Starlight'.

A king who wants to maintain an army can never have too much gold.

-More, SirThomas
  Utopia (English translation1556), bk.1.

An army marches on its stomach.

-Napoleon I
   Attributed. Probably condensed from a long passage dated14 Nov in E  A de Las Cases Le Me¤  moriale de Sainte-He¤  le¤ n e (1823), vol.4.

In the early morning the mill girls clumping down the cobbled street, all in clogs, making a curiously formidable sound, like an army hurrying into battle. I suppose this is the typical sound of Lancashire.

-Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair
  Diary entry,18 Feb. He used this as material for his book The Road to Wigan Pier (1937).

The Soviet Republic needs an army that will be able to fight and conquer.

-Trotsky, Leon originally Lev Davidovich Bronstein
  Speech to the Moscow Soviet of Workers', Soldiers'and Peasants' Deputies,19 Mar.

The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves† The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army.Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance or abject submission.We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.

-Washington, BookerTaliaferro
  General orders, 2 Jul. Quoted inJ C Fitzpatrick (ed) Writings of GeorgeWashington (1932), vol.5.

O flower of Scotland, when will we see your like again, That fought and died for your wee bit hill and glen And stood against him, proud Edward's army, And sent him homeward tae think again.

-Williamson, Roy
  'Flower of Scotland', stanza1.

It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.

-Wilson, (Thomas) Woodrow
  Speech,Washington,12 May.