Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patrick MacGill

The soldiers' last meal is generally served out about five o'clock in the afternoon, sometimes earlier; and a stretch of fourteen hours intervenes between then and breakfast.

Pat Buchanan

If the Europeans want to intervene, that's their business. But if I were president, I would remove every United States soldier from the Balkan peninsula.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Gold will not always get you good soldiers, but good soldiers can get you gold.

Jim Butcher

I'm brilliant as well as skilled," he said modestly. "It's a great burden, all of that on top of my angelic good looks. But I try to soldier on as best I can.

Murray Rothbard

[W]hich category of crimes does the State pursue and punish most intensely? [T]hose against private citizens or those against itself? The gravest crimes in the State's lexicon are almost invariably not invasions of private person or property, but dangers to its own contentment, for example, treason, desertion of a soldier to the enemy, failure to register for the draft, subversion and subversive conspiracy, assassination of rulers and such economic crimes against the State as counterfeiting its money or evasion of its income tax.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is nothing proper about what you are doing, soldier, but do try to kill me properly.

Kathryn Bigelow

For some individuals - some soldiers, some contractors - combat provides a kind of purpose and meaning beyond which all else potentially pales in comparison.

Hu Shih

India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.

Sometimes you get a response, but a lot of the soldiers don't respond. I just think they are probably kind of busy.

Jaswant Singh

These soldiers were tortured and subjected to torture repeatedly,

These soldiers were made to feel like second-class citizens.

The soldier who retreated 50 paces jeered at the one who retreated 100 paces

They taught and they trained, and they showed what it meant, really, to be a soldier in the United States,

Glen Cook

Soldiers live. He dies and not you, and you feel guilty, because you're glad he died, and not you. Soldiers live, and wonder why.

Herbert Spencer

Policeman are soldiers who act alone; soldiers are policeman who act in unison.

James Callis

My first show, in England, was called Soldier, Soldier.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?

Ernie Pyle

Say what you will, nothing can make a complete soldier except battle experience.

James Cameron

I dreamed I was a soldier who could bring peace. Sooner or later, though, you always have to wake up.

James A. Michener

a soldier lives always for the next battle, because he knows that before it arrives impossible changes can occur in his favor.

George C. Wallace

Zeal is ever the buckler and shield of a true soldier.

Chris Roberts

The most common way to identify a soldier is by the disc around his neck. But these were made of compressed cardboard and so they've all but disappeared.

Chris Wooding

Not for the first time, he wished he commanded a highly trained bunch of soldiers instead of a ragtag mob of rejects in varying stages of alcoholism.

Gregory David Roberts

Good soldiers are defined by what they can endure, not by what they can inflict.

I am a better soldier than a student.

another day for the soldiers of the coalition.

We had sold the levy on the street (issue).

I sold my Chevron. I sold my ConocoPhillips. I sold my Statoil. I sold my ENSCO. I sold my Pioneer Natural Resources. I sold everything.

The way he sold the trucks was within state statutes.

We sold out, ... The midrange scooters are gone.

to stand by our soldiers in this hour.

Nick Flynn

That soldiers do terrible things during wartime should not surprise us.

Sergei Ivanov

It is painful to talk about it, but even with its 110,000 elite soldiers, the Soviet Union never managed to gain control over the entire Afghan territory.