Famous quotes by Soldiers

"I got space from Travis Air Force Base, went back to the Philippine Islands and made it a point to meet the only American casting director in the Philippines. I was off and running"

R. Lee Ermey, Soldier

"I go the VA Hospital when I have a problem, and the doctor jumps on me"

R. Lee Ermey, Soldier

"I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot"

R. Lee Ermey, Soldier

"I disagree with a lot of those changes, however, at the end of the day - I go down to recruit graduation at least once or twice a year"

R. Lee Ermey, Soldier

"Everybody respects the Vietnam Veterans of America"

R. Lee Ermey, Soldier

"Even though I disagree with many of the changes, when I see the privates graduate at the end of the day, when they walk off that drill field at the end of the ceremony, they are still fine privates; outstanding, well motivated privates"

R. Lee Ermey, Soldier

"Drill instructors worked seven days a week, fifteen to seventeen hours a day in many cases, with no time off in between platoons"

R. Lee Ermey, Soldier

"Back in the old Corp, we weren't training those privates to infiltrate into the peacetime Marine Corp. We were training those privates to go to Vietnam"

R. Lee Ermey, Soldier

"America's trying to do the best for its veterans"

R. Lee Ermey, Soldier

"I am George Rogers Clark. You have just become a prisoner of the Commonwealth of Virginia"

George Rogers Clark, Soldier

"Writing with you is the only thing that keeps me alive"

David Hackworth, Soldier

"We citizens don't need to know every detail of every military operation in this new kind of war. Nor should the media tell us and hence our enemy"

David Hackworth, Soldier

"My mother said, Don't worry abot what people think now. Think about whether your children and grandchildren will think you've done well"

Lord Mountbatten, Soldier

"It never entered my father's mind, nor my mind ever to do a job othe than at one's best ability"

Lord Mountbatten, Soldier

"It is a curious thing, but I have been right in everything I have done and said in my life"

Lord Mountbatten, Soldier

"I liked Truman very much. He was precise and businesslike. After a while, it was his turn"

Lord Mountbatten, Soldier

"What I do say is, yes, children may be resilient and they have been able to deal with all sorts of difficulties they have faced, but the bottom line is this: I believe very strongly children need a mother and a father in the home"

Timothy Murphy, Soldier

"Our enemy is motivated by hatred and will not stop planning more plots against until they are ultimately defeated. Today was an important and necessary victory in the war, but there is a long road ahead. We must remain committed if we are to succeed and protect our liberty"

Timothy Murphy, Soldier

"If one of us, any of us, any American, is traveling in a town somewhere in America and a medical crisis hits them, for someone who is diabetic or perhaps has heart disease or some other problems, where do we get the records to determine what to do?"

Timothy Murphy, Soldier

"Each State has its own health insurance mandates, and some of them are good, but there are about 1,800 of them all across the Nation, including provisions for acupuncturists, massage therapists, and hair replacements"

Timothy Murphy, Soldier

"An offensive war, I believe to be wrong, and would therefore have nothing to do with it, having no right to meddle with another man's property, his ox or his ass, his man servant or his maid servant, or anything, this is his"

Daniel Morgan, Soldier

"Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own"

Chiang Kai-shek, Soldier

"That's because international Islamic religious fanatics have the same goal as the Axis fascists - the destruction of our way of life"

David Hackworth, Soldier

"Fortunately, it's still not too late to develop a comprehensive global strategy to eliminate our real enemy"

David Hackworth, Soldier

"Never stand and take a charge... charge them too"

Nathan Bedford Forrest, Soldier

"I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors"

Nathan Bedford Forrest, Soldier

"Never feel that a piece of criticism or advice is too much trouble to give, or that it exceeds your province"

Lord Mountbatten, Soldier

"I was born with an ability to concentrate very hard on a job for a long time"

Lord Mountbatten, Soldier

"I suppose you can say I became an odd-job man"

Lord Mountbatten, Soldier

"I believe firmly that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity"

Lord Mountbatten, Soldier

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