Enlisting Quotes

• I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War.

  Larry David

  War, Army, President

  "My War" by Larry David, www.nytimes.com. February 15, 2004.

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• America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.

  John Quincy Adams

  Peace, America, Independence

  Friedrich von Gentz, John Quincy Adams, Richard Loss (1800). “The origin and principles of the American Revolution compared with the origin and principles of the French Revolution: a facsimile reproduction”, Academic Resources Corp

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• Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive.

  Patrick MacGill

  Men, Doe, Done

  MacGill, Patrick (2017). “The Amateur Army”, p.7, Read Books Ltd

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• So rather than face the bitter truth, China has placed severe restrictions on the Internet and enlisted America's high-tech companies as their Internet police.

  Tom Lantos

  America, Police, Faces

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• The moment you enlist in the army of God, you personally become a target. You need to remember that if you're living for and walking with Jesus Christ, the powers of darkness are aligned against you.

  Walter Martin

  Dios, Religión, Jesús

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• If you would reform the world from its errors and vices, begin by enlisting the mothers.

  Charles Simmons

  Mother, Errors, Vices

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• Estados Unidos no va al extranjero en busca de monstruos que destruir. Es partidaria de la libertad y la independencia de todos. Sabe muy bien que si se alistara bajo otras banderas que no fueran las suyas, incluso si fueran las banderas de la independencia extranjera, se involucraría más allá del poder de liberación en todas las guerras de intereses e intrigas, de avaricia individual, envidia y ambición, que asumen los colores y usurpan los estandartes de la libertad.

  John Quincy Adams

  War, Ambition, Color

  Speech on Independence Day at the United States House of Representatives, teachingamericanhistory.org. July 04, 1821.

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• A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Inspiración, Éxito, Fracaso

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• Una persona que duda de sí misma es como un hombre que se alistara en las filas de sus enemigos y empuñara las armas contra sí mismo.

  Alejandro Dumas

  Failure, Men, Doubt

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• ...revolutions are not won by enlisting the masses. Revolution is a science for the few who are competent to practice it. It depends on correct organisation and above all, on communications.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Communication, Practice, Revolution

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• We are raising a generation of young Americans who are, to a very large degree, historically illiterate. It's not their faults. There's no problem about enlisting their interest in history. None. The problem is the teachers so often have no history in their background.

  David McCullough

  Teacher, Degrees, Generations

  Fuente: www.neh.gov

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• Every man or woman who turns to Christ must bear in mind that they are breaking with their old master, and enlisting under a new leader. Conversion is a revolutionary process.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Men, Leader, Mind

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 164), 1895.

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• When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school textbooks in the hope of enlisting impressionable youths in their cause.

  Samantha Power

  School, Support, Causes

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• Nadie habla más apasionadamente de sus derechos que aquel que en el fondo de su alma duda de tenerlos. Alistando la pasión de su lado quiere sofocar su razón y sus dudas: así adquirirá una buena conciencia y con ella el éxito entre sus semejantes.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Passion, Men, Rights

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.191, Cambridge University Press

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• This is advertising that is designed not to look or feel like advertising at all. The one thing we felt we got parents to agree with was that if their children ask them questions about enlisting, they had an obligation to, one, engage, and then two, be informed.

  Edward Boches

  Niños, Dos, Padres

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• We must win the war on poverty by enlisting the greatest weapon ever invented - free enterprise

  Jack Kemp

  War, Winning, Politics

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• [Hay una extraña división en el pensamiento común de la izquierda religiosa, que se apresura a denunciar el afán de lucro y el mercantilismo. Sin embargo, parecen pensar que la clave de la felicidad es dar a la gente más cosas, recurriendo al poder coercitivo del gobierno. Esta perversa forma de pensar sostiene que la "justicia social" exige que quitemos dinero a quienes lo han ganado y se lo demos a quienes tienen menos. Eso no es justicia social, es materialismo.

  Robert Sirico

  Religious, Thinking, Keys

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• Strength to do battle begins with enlisting the strength of God.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Batalla

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