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

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.

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!

In fact, I have never met anyone who didn't like Gargoyles.

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.

Don't apologize for being patriotic. Support the troops

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.

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.

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.