Famous Quotes & Sayings

Allen West

If it's about the lives of my soldiers at stake, I'd go through hell with a gasoline can.

Alexander Pope

Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too.

Albert Schweitzer

Soldiers' graves are the greatest preachers of peace.

Douglas MacArthur

The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point?but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

A voter without a ballot is like a soldier without a bullet.

Andrew Young

President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn't kill anybody and he didn't get anyone killed.

Andrei Platonov

I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier.

Coolio

I perform for soldiers because they are important.

Clara Barton

I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat?

Amy Carmichael

Part of a soldier's duty is to fill gaps...one must be willing to be nothing, as something.

He was a soldier of justice, which is indispensable to our freedom, stability and peace.

Our main battle has always been against Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers.

Soldiers train here in their specialty, and then go on to their assignments someplace else.

Rita Ora

My first tour sold out in Glasgow, and they were one of the loudest. I couldn't hear myself.

Bobby Ray Inman

And Oliver North was really a good soldier, up to the last moment, shoving memos into the shredder and defending the policy to the end.

Carlos Delgado

Let me put it this way. There are no tickets left. It's sold out.

Wesley Clark

We know we will be able to work this out, as soldiers always do,

Orson Scott Card

He walked down the corridor, lined with his soldiers, who looked at him with love, with awe, with trust. Except Bean, who looked at him with anguish. Ender Wiggin was not larger than life, Bean knew. He was exactly life-sized, and so his larger-than-life burden was too much for him. And yet he was bearing it. So far.

Scott Campbell

At a time when Fords sold for hundreds, Packards went for thousands.

That's as many tickets that have been sold for the Winter Olympics.

It's not surprising on two fronts. One, that they sold it, and two, that it's not worth much.

Susan Hayward

I'm not going to say I'm sold on a five-day fair, and I'm not sure we can do it.

That soldier said: 'There are some things going on here that I can't live with'.

It will not be whether it's wrong or right to be there. There's no politicking at this table. If our soldiers are over there in harm's way, they should have the very best.

They've sold a lot of T-shirts and I know there's a lot of excitement.

Andy Kindler

I did not sell Amway, but I sold Shaklee, which was an Amway-type product sold through multi-level marketing.

The person who sold the semen made money,

David Halberstam

This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.

David Gemmell

I am not going to talk about patriotism, duty, liberty, and the defense of freedom because that's all dung to a soldier.

We would like to have sold more tickets, but we're going to come out all right.

Mark Twain

By and by when each nation has 20,000 battleships and 5,000,000 soldiers we shall all be safe and the wisdom of statesmanship will stand confirmed.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends 500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only 53 annually on the victims of poverty.

Harry S Truman

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.