Famous Quotes & Sayings

W. S. Gilbert

All bayonets are bad.

Napoleon Bonaparte

You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them

Mary Chapin Carpenter

I found Elvis on the Internet, I went camping with a young cadet, he showed me his bayonet.

Sean Sweeney

Flag staff tips to bayonets to sabers is really the lifeblood (of the Lawrence Civil War Memorial Guard).

Rutherford B. Hayes

My policy is trust peace and to put aside the bayonet.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets

Mother Jones

The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets. In the end, bayonets always win.

Harlan Ellison

K is for Kenghis Khan. He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.

Victor Navasky

Kennedy used him to mediate on civil rights issues. Ramsey is seen these days as a very polarizing force. But, in fact, one of his talents is mediation and reconciliation.

Lawrence Wilkerson

Katrina gives us no confidence, ... I am 10 times more worried about what happens to civil liberties after that attack.

Drew Gilpin Faust

Americans in the Civil War period were very interested in Heaven and what it might be like, because they were having to face the fact that many of their loved ones were gone and many of their loved ones, they hoped, were in this other realm called Heaven.

Drew Gilpin Faust

Death created the modern American union, not just by ensuring national survival, but by shaping enduring national structures and commitments. The work of death was Civil War America's most fundamental and most demanding undertaking.

Drew Gilpin Faust

Before the Civil War, there were no national cemeteries, no processes for identifying the dead in the battle. There weren't any dog tags, and there was no next-of-kin notification. You didn't necessarily even hear what the fate of your loved ones had been. It was up to their comrades to write and inform you.

Stewart Brand

I was a glassy-eyed undergraduate. It was a pillar of local civilization.

Jim Cooper

There is a growing unease, but all the folks I talked to support our troops, want us to win in the Middle East and still trust our military leaders to do the right thing. I think there's some skepticism of our civilian leaders.

Jaspher Ombati

It is not our intention to violate people's civil rights. Our intentions are noble -- to save people's lives.

Allen Sinai

Greenspan is giving individuals ample warning that they need to take that into account. He's throwing out a yellow flag of caution.

William J. Brennan

Punishing desecration of the flag dilutes the very freedom that makes this emblem so revered.

Zebulon Pike

On no further occasion present a flag or medal to an Indian.

George Fernandes

Naxal flag will soon fly in delhi

Cheryl Kirkland

These girls have been underdogs all year. They had to play Flag like this, and they stayed focused doing their job. That's what made them successful today.

Peter Lonard

All I saw were American flags and I thought, 'holy cow',

Lesley Stahl

It's not a flag that I look at with anything favorable. That's for sure, ... I can't tell people what flag to fly.

Ken Kesey

Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.

Sue Jones

It's just completely nuts. We have banners and flags and hats just kind of decked out all over the place.

Lino Spiteri

Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi prefers smelling roses than removing thorns

Milton Smith

Some may have ties to Lawrence County, but most have not.

William J. Clinton

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.

Richard M. Nixon

This Memorial Day should remind us of the greatness that past generations of Americans achieved from Valley Forge to Vietnam, and it should inspire us with the determination to keep America great and free by keeping America safe and strong in our own time, a time of unique destiny and opportunity for our Nation.

Richard M. Nixon

Peace is the real and right memorial for those who have died in war.

Rich Sommer

Three times a year, theres Strategicon convention, and I go for the board games. It happens Presidents Day, Labor Day, and Memorial Day weekends. You go and take a look at the new board games and meet a couple of board game designers, and you can check out games you dont own from the library and then return them.

Robert Charles Winthrop

There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.

Robin Hayes

Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life.

Robert E. Lee

It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.

Samuel Johnson

Of those that spin out trifles and die without a memorial, many flatter themselves with high opinions of their own importance, and imagine that they are every day adding some improvement to human life.

Ronald Reagan

In our observances this Memorial Day, we honor the brave Americans who paid the highest price for their commitment to the ideals of peace, freedom, and justice. Our debt to them can be paid only by our own recommitment to preserving those same ideals.

John Roberts

I was a staff lawyer, ... I didn't have a position.

Paul Tagliabue

I think that I see (finding a replacement) as one of opportunity. I told the staff that we have a lot of things in place, a lot of initiatives under way.

Andy Miller

Right now our support staff is really under the gun,

Chris Morgan

I'll tell you. If Arturo ever wants to go into coaching, he can be on my staff anytime.

Brian Marshall

The staff told me they were going to do this. I told them it wasn't necessary.

Oliver North

The teachers that teach here could make more money. The staff could do something else.

Mark Sanchez

That's what the staff wants to do with it.

Ed Fulton

We've got a better infield that we had a year ago. With the staff that we have that should work pretty good.

Alain Rene Le Sage

Plain as a pike-staff.

John Eisenhower

I was a lieutenant in World War II.

Al Spalding

No human mind may measure the blessings conferred by the game of base ball on the soldiers of the Civil War. It had its earliest evolution when soldiers, North and South, were striving to forget their foes by cultivating, through this grand game, fraternal friendships with comrades in arms.

Dito Montiel

I have friends who have had PTSD, and you can get it from other things than war.

Robert E. Lee

Sir, if you ever presume again to speak disrespectfully of General Grant in my presence, either you or I will sever his connection with this university.

Richard Perle

Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of ideas has eluded most commentators and historians.

Richard Paul Evans

. . .and every native has a story of winter – stories that usually begin, You call this a storm? And grow in the telling like battle tales shared by graying war veterans. It’s a peculiar character flaw to those of us from cold climates that we feel superior to those who have the sense to live elsewhere.

Richard Holbrooke

The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.

Townsend Harris

If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former.

Townsend Harris

In time of war steamships and improved arms are the most important things.