A French army would be the best.

An army is the fist; but the muscle, the strength, of the physical organism behind the blow in the long run belong to the people.

Huge armies are even a danger to their own cause.

This heterogeneous tripartite army is exceedingly expensive, its cost during the current year being, according to the Estimates, very little less than 29 millions, the cost of the personnel being 23-1/2 millions, that of matériel being 4 millions, and that of administration 1/2 millions.

From the first the army was the great power of the state, its chief being more powerful than Joab was in the undivided kingdom of David.

The awful standing armies are a menace to all liberty and progress and national development.

The malefactor, who is at the Elysée, thinks that the Army of France is a band of mercenaries; that if they are paid and intoxicated they will obey.

I was letting these men, sir, understand that the army and the field are the best schools on earth.

"Soldiers, the French Army is the advanced guard of humanity. "Become yourselves again, reflect; acknowledge your faults; rise up!

The French Army is by far the most democratic institution I have ever seen.

Without it an army becomes a mob, while with it a mob ceases to be a mob and becomes possessed of much of the power of an organized force.

The combatants are hidden from each other, but under the chieftain's eye the dozen armies are only the squadrons of a single host, their battles only the separate conflicts of a single field, the movements of the whole campaign only the evolutions of a prolonged engagement.

The army was gettin' reddy to charge onto me agin, and avenge their fallen comrags.

Of these, the army of General McClellan was the largest and most threatening.

Moreover, Nero's army was so strong that Hannibal could not concentrate troops enough to assume the offensive against it without weakening his garrisons and relinquishing, at least for a time, his grasp upon the southern provinces.

The Turkish Army is not so much a profession or an institution necessitated by the fears and aims of the Government as the quite normal state of the Turkish nation....

The Army, on the other hand, is not an important factor of strength, as the training of the units is limited to a few months.

Thus fell the glorious Czech legions from their high pinnacle of fame, killed as all armies must be the moment they join in party strife.

All armies in the nature of things are more or less machines, moved by one commanding will; but the Greek armies owed much of their success to the individual bravery of their troops, who were citizens of States under constitutional forms of government.

The stream thickened toward nightfall, and continued until two o'clock next morning; so that our army was twenty-four hours passing through Fredericksburg; and in that time I do not think a man strayed off on to any other street!

There I lay on the floor, puffin' and blowin' like a steem ingine, while the hull army was dancin' a war dance around my prostrate figger, and the old Kernal was cuttin' down a double shuffle on the wash-stand, which made the crockery rattle.

The army is a big affair, my boys, and I doubt if Rob and I will ever meet.

In the various battles which were fought, and the sieges which took place, the English army was, as usual, in the foremost ranks, under the Duke of York, second son of George III.

The Union army is several miles from here, an' my poor mammy is so skeery that, if I were trying to get her away and any of them Secesh would overtake us, an' begin to question us, she would get skeered almost to death, an' break down an' begin to cry, an' then the fat would be in the fire.

We shut the gates, but after the battle of Quebec, it is impossible that so great a people should attend to such trifles as locks and bolts, accordingly there were noneand as if there were no gates neither, the two armies fired through themif this is a blunder, remember I am describing an Irish war.