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Thou are beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners. - Bible, Song of Solomon (ch. VI, v. 4) No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace or insure it victory in time of war. - Calvin Coolidge For a free people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security. - Thomas Jefferson None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. - Thomas Jefferson No army has ever done so much with so little. - General Douglas MacArthur A standing army is one of the greatest mischiefs that can possibly happen. - James Madison The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line. - Charles Edward Montague He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war. - General William Tecumseh Sherman The army is a good book to open to study human life. One learns there to put his hand to everything, to the lowest and highest things. The most delicate and rich are forced to see living nearly everywhere poverty, and to live with it, and to measure his morsel of bread and draught of water. - Comte Alfred Victor de Vigny
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