Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.