- Nov 07, 2020
Soldiers Quotes
Quotes on duty, discipline, and command.
This set stays close to the idea of soldiers as a team to be led and coordinated, echoed in one line comparing a general's command of troops to a musician commanding the keys of an instrument. That sense of structured Duty runs through it.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Deserts
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- Nov 07, 2020
From the bitter cold winter at Valley Forge, to the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq, our soldiers have courageously answered when called, gone where ordered, and defended our nation with honor.
- Follow
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- Nov 07, 2020
The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag.
- Drawing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.
- Dreamers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only thing that makes battle psychologically tolerable is the brotherhood among soldiers. You need each other to get by.
- Innocent
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
Waitresses, soldiers, rickshaw drivers, old ladies selling vegetables - my father would schmooze anybody. He was Clintonesque before the word existed. And, of course, it paid dividends. Ill-tempered guards at the most notorious border crossings waved him through with cheery smiles. Haughty maitre d's fawned over him.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once I should have been, if not satisfied, partially, at least, contented with suffrage for the intelligent and those who have been soldiers; now I am convinced that universal suffrage is demanded by sound policy and impartial justice.
- Argument
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- Nov 07, 2020
More and more, we have been able to present the argument that recruitment of child soldiers is a social breakdown that leads to atrocities, because that's why they get them.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
Young Republicans are a very, very important constituency. Along with little old ladies, they provide the foot soldiers for the Republican Party.
- Marines
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- Nov 07, 2020
To keep providing our soldiers, sailors and Marines with 21st-century firepower, Picatinny needs 21st-century laboratories and research and development facilities.
- Interested
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm as interested in the families and communities that surround our soldiers.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020