Army Appropriations Act

Army Appropriations Act refers to several federal acts considered by the U.S. Congress:

  • Army Appropriations Act (1880)
  • Army Appropriations Act (1901), which included the Platt Amendment
  • Army Appropriations Act of 1916
  • Army Appropriations Act (1919)

Famous quotes containing the words army and/or act:

    “To make an Army work you have to have every man in it fitted into a fear ladder.... The Army functions best when you’re frightened of the man above you, and contemptuous of your subordinates.”
    —Norman Mailer (b. 1923)

    “quaking muscles in the act of birth,
    Between her legs a pigmy face appear,
    And the first murderer lay upon the earth.”
    —Alec Derwent Hope (b. 1907)