Top 861 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Soldiers - Page 10

The dependence of one people upon another, even for the benefits of legislation, is the deepest source of national weakness.

Some are happy with where their comfort zone is, but I like to be constantly tested, and I think it's good.

He's a novice, but he's had these - he's experienced in leadership in tight circumstances. He started - he dropped the first bomb, led the first air strike into North Vietnam.

Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imagination could become a writer. He also, in a way, gave me permission to write about northern Montana.

They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that.

But even before I was in the military, I was extremely jumpy when asleep.

The first duty of a leader is opti­mism. How does your sub­or­di­nate feel after meet­ing with you? Does he feel uplifted? If not, you are not a leader.

We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to be milling around with no particular cohesion.

Khalif (Caliph) Al-Ma'mun's period of rule (813 - 833 C.E.) may be considered the 'golden age' of science and learning. He had always been devoted to books and to learned pursuits. His brilliant mind was interested in every form of intellectual activity. Not only poetry but also philosophy, theology, astronomy, medicine and law all occupied his time.

The sea from Dunkirk to Dover during these days of the evacuation looked like any coastal road in England on a bank holiday. It was solid with shipping.

The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future.

Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.

Even though I disagree with many of the changes, when I see the privates graduate at the end of the day, when they walk off that drill field at the end of the ceremony, they are still fine privates; outstanding, well motivated privates.

To tell the truth, fishermen remain always boys as far as their amusement goes.

As an overruling providence may succeed our wishes, let us rear an offspring in every respect worthy to fill the most illustrious stations of their predecessors.

If our most highly qualified General Staff officers had been told to work out the most nonsensical high level organization for war which they could think of, they could not have produced anything more stupid that that which we have at present.

There had so lately been a large force of Spanish cavalry at the village, which had made a great impression on the minds of the young men, as to their power, consequence, which my appearance with 20 infantry was by no means calculated to remove.

Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day one should meditate on being carried away by surging waves, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease.

Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do.

Indeed it is very hard, when we have let the King's subjects have so much of our lands for so little value.

And so I think that if the person has the funds, the network, and the equipment to do this, and also the experience, which is the key factor, then they can be quite deadly.

The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

The prosperity of a nation requires the protection of a senate. Hereafter a national senate may require the protection of a national army.

It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

The great mistake these people make is that they go to looking after the spiritual welfare of the Indians before securing their physical.

It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.

My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive.

I will give you the best I have.

The real heroes were my good buddies who died during the battles.

The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe.

I held 18, 19, or 20-year-old men in my arms, and I heard their last words, and I saw them take their last breath.

Honest honey, I feel like crying every time I sit down to write you a letter... I am so unlucky.

Human life is truly a short affair. It is better to live doing the things that you like.

My officers and men understood wishes so well that this movement was executed under fire, the right wing keeping up fire, without giving the enemy any occasion to seize or even to suspect their advantage.

The best practitioners give to their patients the least medicine.

The fact is that the Vietnamese held Americans after 1973.

I then realized my appearance was a bit odd. My right leg was no longer with me. It had caught somewhere in the top of the cockpit as I tried to leave my Spitfire.

I can't swing a dead cat without hitting a reporter.

So I've broadened the fitness concept to make it one of moderation and balance.

As a human being, possessing education, talent, and recourses obligates you to help others less fortunate.

It's hard to be happy when you are facing 120 to 140 degree temperatures and nothing seems to be moving in a direction that you think or they think or you've been told it's supposed to be moving in.

I am Chelsea Manning. I am a female. Given the way that I feel, and have felt since childhood, I want to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible.

I think investments in general related to the exercise industry are going to be good for a long time.

My name is Clark, and I have come out to see what you brave fellows are doing in Kentucky and to lend you a helping hand, if necessary.

All of us want to live, and that is absolutely natural. However, we should learn from childhood on to choose our best way to die. If we don't do that, we end up spending our days like a dog, only in search of harbour, food and expressing a blind loyalty to his owner in return. That isn't enough to make our lives have a meaning.

The only reason I'd bring a Bible out here is if I needed toilet paper.

The foreigners come out here always to teach, whereas they had much better learn, for, in everything but wits and knowledge, the Arab is generally the better man of the two.

Now I say that if you run more than 15 miles a week, it's for something other than aerobic fitness. Once you pass 15 miles, you do not see much further improvement.

Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.

I grew up in Palestine, West Virginia, which is mostly a farming community; there aren't a lot of jobs.

I do believe that the United Nations needs to have more exacting, more enhanced professional standards for the military peacekeepers that are deployed.

Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency.

I have entered the field to die, if need be, for this government, and never expect to return to peaceful pursuits until the object of this war of preservation has become a fact established.

I love Instagram. I like taking pictures. I've always been into that ever since cellphones had that capability.

I further believe that all must be saved through the merits of Christ.

The only luck I had in my life was when I married you. I knew it wouldn't last because I was too happy. I knew they would not let me be happy.

Every mission accomplished.

I was sick. I guess I was about to crack up thinking about all my good buddies. They were better men than me and they're not coming back. Much less back to the White House, like me.