Top 861 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Soldiers - Page 15

The mission statement was ordered, and it sent the 800th MP Brigade, effective the first of July, up to Baghdad. I joined my brigade to take command at the end of June.

I'm a professor of national security studies, and I know a lot more about fighting than Rumsfeld does.

It's a weird feeling when you know you're going to die.

Music's the medicine of the mind.

War is a calculated and condoned slaughter of human beings.

Still I was concerned that politics would get between us and our POWs.

When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.

Yet compared with the serious things of life, fishing is after all rather trivial. The thoughtful angler must frankly confess this.

Few Indians only had breech cloths, most being wrapped in buffalo robes, otherwise quite naked.

Only a fighting nation can make itself responsible for world peace, and such a nation must organize its material resources and manpower with the highest possible degree of efficiency.

When I took on Everest, I'm not there for the views.

Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided republic.

Savage, despicable evil. That's what we were fighting in Iraq. That's why a lot of people, myself included, called the enemy 'savages.' There really was no other way to describe what we encountered there.

We have 1.8 million Americans behind bars today at Local, State and Federal level. In the federal system, which has doubled in the last ten years, over 110,000 people behind bars in the Federal system, probably two-thirds are there for drug related reason.

You know as well as I do that counterinsurgency is a very nuanced type of military operation.

That policy was abandoned very quickly, and the military police were tagged with the responsibility of conducting training, which they did. We were not equipped or set up with personnel to recruit new Iraqi guards.

I have no fondness for pure form at all.

In whatever I may be thought to have been unnatural, unwise and indelicate, it is now my most fervent desire it may have a suitable impression on you - and on me, a penitent for every wrong thought and step.

The British soldiers serving in Afghanistan alongside Prince Harry were in exceptional danger until he was withdrawn.

Dad was wiped from our lives. The day after he died, every photo of him disappeared from the house. It was as if he'd never existed. Me and my brothers weren't even allowed to go to his funeral. His death was made absolute.

Go right straight down the road, to do what is best, and to do it frankly and without evasion.