“Chief of security : They have a tank! How did they get a tank up here?”
Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony (2006)
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“Hughie, get your tanks off my lawn.”
Statement to trade union leader Hugh Scanlon (c. 1969), as quoted in "Lord Scanlon" in The Telegraph (28 January 2004) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1452770/Lord-Scanlon.html
Prime Minister

“If the tanks succeed, then victory follows.”
As quoted in Panzerkrieg : The Rise and Fall of Hitler's Tank Divisions (2002) by Peter McCarthy and Mike Syron, p. 33

“My men can eat their belts, but my tanks have gotta have gas.”
On the gasoline supplies for his tanks, as quoted in The Struggle for Europe (1972) by Chester Wilmot, p. 473

“We have an army without airplanes and without tanks. What sort of strength is this?”

and I believe in China they will send out the tanks.
2010s, Socialism's Legacy (2011), Q&A
“The grass is always greener over the septic tank.”
Title of book (1976)

“The most terrible iron is not missiles, aircraft, and tanks, but shackles.”
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