Armies

No other State north of South Carolina was so harried by the forces of the king; and against no other State did they direct such efforts or send such armies, —armies which held portions of it to the close of the war. ❋ Unknown (1906)

At the present moment, when our very existence is threatened by armies vastly superior in numbers to ours, the necessity for defense has induced a call, not for 'the whole militia of all the States,' not for any militia, but for men to compose _armies_ for the Confederate ❋ Jefferson Davis (1848)

And President Bush is trying to rally what he calls the armies of compassion. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The debate about the relative strengths of Israeli forces and the invading Arab armies is just part of a pernicious campaign to discredit the very real existential security concerns that Israel has had to deal with, continuously, since the pre-independence days as a nascent state. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I've heard tell of the other kind of women that gallivanted off like me and did queer things – the sort that become soldiers in armies, and sailors on ships. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A state which regulates crime and invading armies is good. ❋ Unknown (2010)

An ardent anti-communist, he advocated for millions of dollars in Defense funding to aid the development of Latin American armies, especially in El Salvador. ❋ T. Rees Shapiro (2011)

Sometimes the reason he can fight armies is because of a hard carpace, other times because of some hyper-healing ability. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Countless the action fleets shotly rushed to Windom main armies under closing battle units covering, shocking action group of fleets high speed! ❋ Unknown (2009)

This approach of bringing in armies of low-human-capital workers from the Third World to rescue modern economies is presumably equivalent to the storekeeper who loses a little on each item he sells but hopes to make it up on volume. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Henceforth what in Soviet parlance were known as armies would be dramatically smaller, forces of only five or six divisions. ❋ John Mosier (2010)

When were you ever one for a safe and narrow life, locked in its own smugness, roofed with a sour gray sky, stinking of smoke and dung — you who drove armies from the field? ❋ Blue Tyson (2008)

Grant, selling firewood on the streets of St. Louis and then four years later commanding the Union armies, is the best example, although I knew many Marines who were great warriors but whose ability to adapt to civilian life was minimal. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Privates like me, in armies that actually have privates, make less. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Its goal: to professionalize Latin American armies and strengthen democracies. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Hazing has been a problem in armies throughout the world for millennia, but in post-Soviet Russia it has become a crisis. ❋ Unknown (2006)