Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Kristol

These soldiers deserve a better defense secretary than the one we have.

William Jennings Bryan

No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.

Robert M. Gates

Development is a lot cheaper than sending soldiers.

Winston Churchill

Put together a seaman, soldier and airman and what do you get? The sum of all fears.

Wilhelm Keitel

It isn't right to be obedient only when things go well; it is much harder to be a good, obedient soldier when things go badly and times are hard. Obedience and faith at such time is a virtue.

Walter Scott

Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers.

Winston Churchill

You may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together- what do you get? The sum of their fears.

Samuel Johnson

A soldier's time is passed in distress and danger, or in idleness and corruption.

Wendell Phillips

Liberty knows nothing but victories. Soldiers call Bunker Hill a defeat; but liberty dates from it though Warren lay dead on the field.

Pinball Clemons

To come here and come away with the victory that's big for us.

Richard P. Feynman

Victory usually goes to those green enough to underestimate the monumental hurdles they are facing.

Rhodri Morgan

Tony Blair will be remembered as a great friend to Wales because it was his landslide election victory in 1997 that led to devolution.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Despotism, which we regard with abhorrence, is rather too plausible in decaying feudal, agrarian, pastoral societies. That's why we must expect to have many a defeat before we'll have an ultimate victory in this contest with Communism.

Woody Hayes

Indomitable in victory, insufferable in defeat.

Woodrow Wilson

It must be a peace without victory

William Wordsworth

For by superior energies; more strict affiance in each other; faith more firm in their unhallowed principles, the bad have fairly earned a victory over the weak, the vacillating, inconsistent good.

Samuel Smiles

The Romans rightly employed the same word (virtus) to designate courage, which is, in a physical sense, what the other is in a moral; the highest virtue of all being victory over ourselves.

Tullian Tchividjian

We often read the Bible as if it were fundamentally about us: our improvement, our life, our triumph, our victory, our faith, our holiness, our godliness.

Leah Rush

Kentucky has a fairly good system in place to try to get the information out to the public and the press and make sure citizens have tools to hold their government accountable.

John Henderson

Just let the record note that this is also a victory for the citizens of Onslow County,

Mike Woods

I think it's a fine example of citizens getting involved in the government process and having a major impact on the system by simply stepping forward.

Mike Gempler

There are simply not enough legal residents or citizens in the U.S. to fill all the jobs in our economy. Anti-immigration people are in deep denial about that.

Eric Hoffman

He should be forever locked up to ensure the safety and security of the citizens of Delaware County.

Ben Ruffin

His vision is very, very basic. That is, higher education should be a tool to improve the quality of life for citizens of our state.

John Barrett

I think the impact on our local citizens is they're finding that their sons and daughters that they send off to college now have an opportunity to come back here and work,

Chuck D.

I think the governor expressed his concern that the local officials representing so many citizens were so stridently opposed to the proposal.

Carol Smith

I think the city has an obligation to safeguard citizens from dangerous situations.