Famous Quotes & Sayings

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers...

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.

another day for the soldiers of the coalition.

to stand by our soldiers in this hour.

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

Paullina Simons

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

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.

Robert M. Gates

Development is a lot cheaper than sending soldiers.

Samuel Johnson

A soldier's time is passed in distress and danger, or in idleness and corruption.

Wilhelm Keitel

It isn't right to be obedient only when things go well; it is much harder to be a good, obedient soldier when things go badly and times are hard. Obedience and faith at such time is a virtue.

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 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.

Ernie Pyle

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

Gregory David Roberts

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

Guy de Maupassant

You've never lived until you've almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.

George Bernard Shaw

A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.

Erich Maria Remarque

No soldier outlives a thousand chances.

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.

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

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

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.

Harry S Truman

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

I am a better soldier than a student.

Hu Shih

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