J'ai toujours vu Dieu du cote des gros bataillons. I have always noticed that God is on the side of the heaviest battalions.
Quotes about battalions (15 Quotes)
God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
The number of attacks on the American and allied forces is at the highest level since the insurgency began despite the increase of America combat operations and the introduction of some 40 new Iraq security forces and battalions.
The Bible is not merely a bookit is a living power.... Nowhere as in the Bible can be found such a series of beautiful ideas and admirable maxims which pose before us like the battalions of a celestial army.... The soul can never go astray while it has this book for its guide.
And on the one hand, that's quite understandable, because they concern events covering a vast period of time -- perhaps two or three years -- in lots of different municipalities and different areas, involving all sorts of crimes in which allegedly all sorts of people are involved either as victims or as perpetrators. Particularly when you're dealing with crimes of command responsibility, where it's alleged that the accused had control over various unites or brigades or battalions, you can imagine that the amount of documentary evidence and all evidence that's presented at the trial is absolutely enormous.
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
It is said that God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions. On dit que Dieu est toujours pour les gros bataillons.
By profession I am a soldier and take pride in that fact. But I am prouder -- infinitely prouder -- to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build the father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentiality of death the other embodies creation and life. And while the hordes of death are mighty, the battalions of life are mightier still. It is my hope that my son, when I am gone, will remember me not from the battle field but in the home repeating with him our simple daily prayer, ''Our Father Who Art in Heaven.''
As a matter of fact, we are sustaining a battalion's worth of casualties every month wounded and killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
I pointed out on the floor last year, after Hurricane Katrina, we were very proud that one of our National Guard engineering battalions was called to Louisiana. And they did a magnificent job.
NATO has not received any formal request from the U.N. or from the African Union for anything beyond what it is currently doing. NATO is continuing to do what it has been doing for many months, and that is airlifting in and out African Union battalions as well as providing training.
How soon will these Iraqi battalions be prepared to defend their own nation so America can come home
If we slide into one of those rare moments of military honesty, we realize that the technical demands of modern warfare are so complex aconsiderable percentage of our material is bound to malfunction even before it is deployed against a foe. We no longer waste manpower bycarrying the flag into battle. Instead we need battalions of electronic engineers to keep the terrible machinery grinding.
It would take battalions of angels to protect us from our dreaded dangers, though in a long lifetime few of the dangers come to anything.
RUSH All right, well, we have three sound bites here. Let's go the first one. It is indeed on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace, talking to Senator Dick Turban ... There are 32 Iraqi battalions, 27,000 Iraqi soldiers, who are trained now to lead counterinsurgency with the support of US forces. What's the Democratic plan What would you do now in Iraq, Senator Durbin