Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Kristol

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

Robert M. Gates

Development is a lot cheaper than sending 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.

Maria Sharapova

All the soldiers are down and it will be whoever can get up.

Oliver Cromwell

On becoming soldiers we have not ceased to be citizens.

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.

Ozzy Osbourne

Unholy soldier, disciple of sin, what kind of mind are you living in?

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.

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.

Ned Beauman

I read 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford again every so often.

P. J. O'Rourke

Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.

Pablo Picasso

When German soldiers used to come to my studio and look at my pictures of Guernica, they'd ask 'Did you do this?'. And I'd say, 'No, you did.'

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.

Plutarch

A soldier told Pelopidas, "We are fallen among the enemies." Said he, "How are we fallen among them more than they among us?

Plutarch

Let a prince be guarded with soldiers, attended by councillors, and shut up in forts; yet if his thoughts disturb him, he is miserable.

Mike Gravel

The entire deaths of Vietnam died in vain. And they're dying in vain right this very second. And you know what's worse than a soldier dying in vain? It's more soldiers dying in vain. That's what's worse.

Mike Jackson

Everything starts and finishes with the soldier.

Mike Jackson

Not much over £1,000 a month for the private soldier on operations is hardly an impressive figure.

Terry Pratchett

What your soldier wants - really, really wants - is no-one shooting back at him.

Larry Craig

It is unacceptable to risk the lives of American soldiers and sailors merely to accommodate the sexual lifestyles of certain individuals.

The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession.

Joseph Bruchac

Kill every enemy twice, Wilky said. Better than gettin' shot by a soldier pretending to be dead.

Kelly Miller

In 1917 - as we have seen, - Italy suffered a great reverse, losing 200,000 soldiers and immense supplies.

Tertullian

Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.

It costs us $1 million for every troop[soldier] in Afghanistan.

Lauren Graham

You may be sensitive inside, but what I see on the outside is a soldier.

Joseph Stiglitz

Similarly, payments for a dead soldier amount to only $500,000, which is far less than standard estimates of the lifetime economic cost of a death. This statistical value of a life in the US amounts to circa $6.5 million.

Paullina Simons

Thank you," she whispered, "for keeping yourself alive, soldier." "You're welcome," he whispered back.

Joan Baez

We're not really pacifists, we're nonviolent soldiers.

John McCain

...(W)e lose when by official policy or by official negligence we allow, confuse or encourage our soldiers to forget . . . that which is our greatest strength: that we are different and better than our enemies.