Top 861 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Soldiers - Page 14

I do not send their Lordships the particulars of our losses and damages by this, as it would take me much time; and I am willing none should be lost in letting them know an event of such consequence.

Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.

But there were highs as well as lows, it was as though they said everybody was picking on the man who had more practical real life experiences than the whole batch of them put together.

Poesy must not be drawn by the ears: it must be gently led, or rather, it must lead, which was partly the cause that made the ancient learned affirm it was a divine, and no human skill, since all other knowledges lie ready for any that have strength of wit; a poet no industry can make, if his own genius be not carried into it.

War is hell.

War is not only a matter of equipment, artillery, group troops or air force; it is largely a matter of spirit, or morale.

No person who examines and reflects, can avoid seeing that there is but one race of people on the earth, who differ from each other only according to the soil and the climate in which they live.

When this sad war is over we will all return to our homes, and feel that we can ask no higher honor than the proud consciousness that we belonged to the Army of the Potomac.

Capturing any member of any terrorist cell or any insurgent cell that we may happen to come across is always very, very valuable, and the thing that interests me is that in most instances after a time, people talk and they tell us what they know.

Benteen, come on, big village, be quick. Bring packs.

Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven.

... the human soul, beaten down, overwhelmed, faced by complete failure and ruin, can still rise up against unbearable odds and triumph.

Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.

I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table.

The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke, and they took them and printed all three in the same issue.

In order to drill into young men the need to stay alert and stay alive, I used to punish offenders with my fists, boots and rifle butt, and with stockade time.

Juvenile crime is not naturally born in the boy, but is largely due either to the spirit of adventure that is in him, to his own stupidity, or to his lack of discipline, according to the nature of the individual.

One problem with ideas, however valid, is that they are static and impersonal, whereas a person is active and dynamic.

A jury of my countrymen, it is true, have found me guilty of the crime of which I stood indicted. For this I entertain not the slightest feeling of resentment towards them.

The whole idea that the rescue was staged or the soldiers were shooting blanks, that's just obvious stuff. Why would you do that in the middle of a war? It's just crazy.

There's nothing glorious about war. There's nothing glorious about holding your friends in your arms and watching them die. There's nothing glorious about having to leave your home for 6 to 8 months while your family's back here and you're away.

That taxes may be the ostensible cause is true, but that they are the true cause is as far remote from truth as light from darkness.

It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.

General: I attempted to take Williamsport yesterday, but found too large a force of infantry and artillery. After a long fight, I withdrew to this place.

But I am satisfied that the information that we have that this is the work of Zarqawi, is accurate.

To be sure an European woman would blush to her fingers' ends at the very idea of appearing publicly stark naked; but education and prejudice are everything, since it is an axiom, that where there is no feeling of self-reproach, there can assuredly be no shame.

You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers.

I will embrace the first opportunity to get to California and it is altogether probable that when once there I shall never again leave it.

The last time I was in there to set up for a surgery, I was sitting in the waiting room ... watching television. And a special came on the news about a guy who got AIDS from re-used medical equipment in the VA. It was the same procedure I was fixing to get. I'm gone. Deuces. I walked out, man.

Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.

Seal Team Six is a different unit than the rest of the SEAL teams inasmuch as they concentrate primarily on one thing, counter-terrorism, hostage rescue.

War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.

When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.

As to whether the people who were supposedly to put up the money and did put it up or whether it was Arthur's own money is something which I shall never know.

I was injured by an enemy hand grenade in Afghanistan in 2010. I spent three years recovering at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center... And through that three years, I was forced to search for the silver linings during the long dark and painful nights and days in the hospital.

Leadership means forming a team and working toward common objectives that are tied to time, metrics, and resources.

During the first 3 years at Auschwitz, 2 million people died; over the next 2 years - 3 million.

Once, no self-respecting puncher considered himself dressed for work until he had his feet inside of a pair of $15 boots made by one of the favorite boot-makers, whose merits they discussed about the camp fires night after night.

For drink, there was beer which was very strong when not mingled with water, but was agreeable to those who were used to it. They drank this with a reed, out of the vessel that held the beer, upon which they saw the barley swim.

Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.

Damn the sword! When Virginia wanted a sword, I gave her one. Now she sends me a toy! I require bread!

In the Confederate Army, an officer was judged by stark courage alone, and this made it possible for the Confederacy to live four years.

Don't listen to anyone who tells you that you can't do this or that. That's nonsense. Make up your mind, you'll never use crutches or a stick, then have a go at everything. Go to school, join in all the games you can. Go anywhere you want to. But never, never let them persuade you that things are too difficult or impossible.

I'd never been a prison guard before or anything.

I can take just about anyone and make them physically strong.

The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.

I think I'm going to have a lot of trouble.

The horror that is America is disgusting.

I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going.

I went overseas hoping to prove that all our POWs were home. I came back convinced that they were still alive.

I wanted to be on the cover of Life magazine.

You have one conversation with Clint Eastwood, and you realize how cool of a guy he is. He can get down to anyone's level.

Mainstream news covers war and gets everything wrong. I'd rather learn what's happening from soldiers with combat experience. It's like a former NFL player giving play-by-play. We bring the expert commentary.

Aerobic dancing is already adjusting to injury problems and will probably phase out to some extent.

Years at sea probably explains why I'm single. But every person in the military makes sacrifices.

There's always a fine line that divides hostility from neutrality, and I don't want to pass that line.

We become what we do.

The frame of mind in the local legislatures seems to be exerted to prevent the federal constitution from having any good effect.

Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.

My sentiments for the American cause, from the Stamp Act downward, have never changed... I am still of opinion that it is the cause of liberty and of human nature.