Top 861 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Soldiers - Page 2

Now God be praised, I will die in peace.

What I can do for my country, I am willing to do.

As a combat medic, I heard a lot of last words; I saw a lot of last breaths taken.

I did this whole series on the buffalo soldiers-on black soldiers-I did another series on black cowboys, and I presented myself to the gallery system, and all these people with these massive collections didn't know there were black cowboys or black soldiers. I ended up hitting a niche I didn't know was there.

Everything happens to me. I've never had a streak of luck in my life.

The successful pilots succeeded because they did not open fire until they were close to the target.

The sword is very handsome. I am too old and infirm, as you see, to ever use a sword again, but I am glad that my old mother state has not entirely forgotten me.

I believe in one God, the first and great cause of goodness. I also believe in Jesus Christ, the rebirth of the world. I also believe in the Holy Ghost, the comforter.

My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all.

During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.

Music is the medicine of the mind.

The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority. Any lessening of civil power over military power must inevitably lead away from democracy.

Your purpose, then, plainly stated, is, that you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between you and us.

To all of us who have been charged, we all agree that we don't feel like we were doing things that we weren't supposed to, because we were told to do them. We think everything was justified, because we were instructed to do this and to do that.

Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives.

The Rebel bullet that can kill me has not yet been molded.

No man is a hero in his own country.

The United States must keep a low profile in Vietnam so we can negotiate its neutralization like we did in Laos .

I felt then, as I feel now, that the politicians who took us to war should have been given the guns and told to settle their differences themselves, instead of organizing nothing better than legalized mass murder.

Taking command of HMS Portland is definitely the highlight of my 16 years in the Navy. It is a challenge that I am fully trained for and ready to undertake.

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

We are tired out in making complaints and getting no redress.

The next morning we saw nothing of the enemy, though we were still lying to.

Issue the orders Sir, and I will storm Hell.

The cross does not give us a minor shift or two with regard to a few of our ethical and moral and religious values. The cross radically disrupts the very center and citadel of your life from self to Christ. And if the cross has not done that, you're not a Christian!

Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.

If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.

In a few days an officer came to our camp, under a flag of truce, and informed Hamilton, then a captain of artillery, but afterwards the aid of General Washington, that Captain Hale had been arrested within the British lines condemned as a spy, and executed that morning.

Every author believes that the book which he is placing before the public will 'fill a long-felt want,' and success or failure depends very much on how closely he has been able to gauge the nature of the 'long-felt want.'

I call upon my God to judge me, he knows that I love my friends and above all others my wife and children, the, oppinion of the world to contrary notwithstanding.

During war, the laws are silent.

Regarding the Panama Canal Treaty negotiations, they will find us standing up or dead, but never on our knees; NEVER!

I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.

No one ever complains about a speech being too short!

A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect.

It is far better to live like a lion for a day then to live like a jackal for hundred years.

By Mamun's time medical schools were extremely active in Baghdad. The first free public hospital was opened in Baghdad during the Caliphate of Haroon-ar-Rashid. As the system developed, physicians and surgeons were appointed who gave lectures to medical students and issued diplomas to those who were considered qualified to practice. The first hospital in Egypt was opened in 872 AD and thereafter public hospitals sprang up all over the empire from Spain and the Maghrib to Persia.

The future is too good to waste on lies and life is way too short to care for the damnation of others as well as to spend it helping fools with their ideas that are wrong.

I carried out my orders until arrested. I had no sense that I was spying, and I ask that this be taken into account in deciding my verdict.

If I could have gone on describing to you the beauties of this region, who knows but I might have made a fine addition to the literature of our age?

I have therefore concluded to apply for the privilege of becoming a Cadet at West Point.

There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.

The American Marines have it [pride], and benefit from it. They are tough, cocky, sure of themselves and their buddies. They can fight and they know it.

God gave us family so that when we have a hard time praying for ourselves, we have others who will pray for us.

We were trained to live by our wits, in any circumstance.

We go on and on about our differences. But, you know, our differences are less important than our similarities. People have a lot in common with one another, whether they see that or not.

No ground gained was ever relinquished.

Suddenly a single shot on the extreme left rang out on the clear morning air, followed quickly by several others, and the whole line pushed rapidly forward through the brush.

We go by the lighthouse; paddle out. After we got out, we paddled way down to get the biggest peak.

I enjoyed my time in the WRAF. There were plenty of people at the airfields where I worked, and they were all very good company.

We took this challenge before our Lord and our conscience, and it must be done, because this man, Hitler, he is the ultimate evil.

This whole force is utterly demoralized by victory. There seems to be neither head nor tail.

I hope no one will think of... sending me to Pearl Harbor.

I received orders from Congress to proceed to Charleston in South Carolina, for the purpose of Co'operating with General Lincoln in the defense of that Capitol.

Great expectations are placed on this generation for the establishment of peaceful and neighborly relations in the North Caucasus.

The Christian in me says it's wrong, but the corrections officer in me says, 'I love to make a grown man piss himself.'

I do what I do because I believe in the country that we live in. I believe we are making a difference in stemming the flow of terrorism into Australia... I want my children to be able to live as everyone does now without the fear of getting on a bus and having it blow up.

Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.

I don't come from a rich family - it's not like we lived in a cardboard box, but we didn't have a ton of money.

Paperwork will ruin any military force.