Famous quotes by Soldiers

"In this respect I expressed my doubts about using the Corps directly on the South coast, to form a bridgehead for the Army - as the area immediately behind the coast was now covered with obstacles. These doubts were accepted by Hitler"

Kurt Student, Soldier

"This is an era of violent peace"

James D. Watkins, Soldier

"Gentlemen, we are being killed on the beaches. Let's go inland and be killed"

Norman Cota, Soldier

"The hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else"

Gideon Welles, Soldier

"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"

Winfield Scott Hancock, Soldier

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

Omar Torrijos Herrera, Soldier

"War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else"

Smedley Butler, Soldier

"More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor"

John W. Vessey, Jr., Soldier

"The village had a mill near it, situated on the little creek, which made very good flour. The population consisted of civilized Indians, but much mixed blood"

Zebulon Pike, Soldier

"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"

Witold Pilecki, Soldier

"Few of us will forget the wail of mingled grief, rage and horror, which rose from the camp when the Indians returned to it and recognized their slaughtered warriors, women, and children"

John Gibbon, Soldier

"The Mohawks have on all occasions shown their zeal and loyalty to the Great King; yet they have been very badly treated by his people"

Joseph Brant, Soldier

"I think the day you start building the war plan is the day you start beginning the postwar plan"

Jay Garner, Soldier

"Those are the things that, in the wrong hands - and certainly in our war on terrorism, we also must attack proliferation and those nations that proliferate with chemical, biological and nuclear type devices, because that can cause the most catastrophic results"

Hugh Shelton, Soldier

"Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning"

Erwin Rommel, Soldier

"The priest is the personification of falsehood"

Giuseppe Garibaldi, Soldier

"I was in Deadwood at the time, and on hearing of the killing, made my way at once to the scene of the shooting, and found that my friend had been killed by McCall"

Calamity Jane, Soldier

"The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast, and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"Your life is what your thoughts make it"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"There is nothing happens to any person, but what was in his power to go through with"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

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