Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shaul Goldstein

We want the IDF (army) to bring back all the roadblocks in our area,

Chad Coleman

I spent four years in the United States Army between 1985 and 1989, and I certainly learned how to survive out in the woods.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

Half my family was from the Imperial Japanese Navy, and the other half was U.S. Army, and I was raised on Army posts during my childhood, so I pretty much began my life with a split-brain sort of thing.

William Shakespeare

If an army marches on its stomach a Church advances on its knees.

Kurt Vonnegut

The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth.

Benjamin Netanyahu

History of warfare has not yet enabled any army, any civilized army, the army of a democracy like Israel, to be able to deal with a ruthless terrorist enemy that uses civilians as a human shield without having some incidental civilian casualties.

Edward Gibbon

The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.

Edward Gibbon

The union of the Roman empire was dissolved; its genius was humbled in the dust; and armies of unknown barbarians, issuing from the frozen regions of the North, had established their victorious reign over the fairest provinces of Europe and Africa.

Bear Grylls

I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.

Abraham Lincoln

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

Abraham Lincoln

If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.

Abraham Lincoln

The Almighty has His own purposes.

Abraham Lincoln

The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty

Abraham Lincoln

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

Robert E. Lee

My trust is in the mercy and wisdom of a kind Providence, who ordereth all things for our good.

Robert E. Lee

I can only say that I am nothing but a poor sinner, trusting in Christ alone for salvation.

Anthony Weiner

I would have beaten Bloomberg like a rented mule.

Kurt Knaus

It's a process that has never slowed. There are still provisions in there for how you have to stable your mules underground.

Mark Twain

There is nothing to be learned from the second kick of a mule.

Sam Rayburn

There's no education in the second kick of a mule

Marcus Aurelius

Alexander the Great and his mule driver both died and the same thing happened to both.