Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shaul Goldstein

We want the IDF (army) to bring back all the roadblocks in our area,

Edward Gibbon

The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.

Edward Gibbon

The union of the Roman empire was dissolved; its genius was humbled in the dust; and armies of unknown barbarians, issuing from the frozen regions of the North, had established their victorious reign over the fairest provinces of Europe and Africa.

Bear Grylls

I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.

Barry Commoner

The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.

Barney Frank

I do not think that any self-respecting radical in history would have considered advocating people’s rights to get married, join the Army, and earn a living as a terribly inspiring revolutionary platform.

Aslan Maskhadov

It is not advantageous for Russia in its present state to fight against Chechnya. The army is a mess. It must be made combat ready. That will take time. Russia has a lot of economic, social and political problems much more important than Chechnya.

Antony Beevor

I joined the Army in 1965 and served with the 11th Hussars, which I loved. The regiment was so relaxed - a salute was more like a friendly wave.

Frederic Bastiat

If goods don't cross borders, armies will.

Chris Bohjalian

He recalls what that first German soldier said to his major: No God-not yours or mine-approves of what you're doing.

Frederic Bastiat

When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.

Denzel Washington

When I did A Soldier's Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!

Kurt Vonnegut

He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo.

Chiang Kai-shek

We are working for a revolution. If we do not start it by improving the life of the soldiers, all slogans of reforming and improving society are but empty words.

Charles Schumer

If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say?

Charles Fourier

...commerce, which is mistakenly classified among the productive forms of work, ought to be ranked first among the parasitical professions like those of monk, soldier, lawyer etc.

Bernard Law Montgomery

There is such an equality among them that the officers have no authority. The privates are all generals, but not soldiers.

William Shakespeare

I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion, and I will right myself like a soldier.

Alan Shepard

Obviously I was challenged by becoming a Naval aviator, by landing aboard aircraft carriers and so on.

Gary Boyd

The second wave of Navy planes was called back after the announcement came,

James Young

The Westgate Landfill is zoned for residential use. It's near a planned village. The Navy has a capping plan for the site, but it's not consistent with residential use for the site.

Arleigh Burke

Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates.

Seymour Cassel

When I was 17, I was told I had the choice of enlisting in the Navy or going to jail, so I spent the next three years in the Navy.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Sailors have the cleanest bodies and the filthiest minds.

Elizabeth Edwards

I grew up in a Navy family.

David Nicholls

Were helping build capability and capacity in the new Iraqi Navy

Daniel Radcliffe

I basically have the diet of a 19th-century Irish navy, apart from the litre of stout a day. It's meat and potatoes and bread and cheese: those are my four food groups.