Famous quotes by Soldiers

"Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body"

J. F. C. Fuller, Soldier

"One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire"

John W. Foster, Soldier

"A bowler can make or break a chap"

John Newton, Soldier

"I have never belonged to a party. I don't have party affiliation"

William Odom, Soldier

"Understanding sometimes is not enough to explain something"

Robert Ley, Soldier

"A leader who loses his connection to his people soon loses the ability to lead them"

Robert Ley, Soldier

"Many have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil. I am content to observe that there is evil, and that there is a way to escape from it, and with this I begin and end"

John Newton, Soldier

"God works powerfully, but for the most part gently and gradually"

John Newton, Soldier

"It was, however, in the interest of Osama bin Laden for us to destroy a secular Arab leader; it was very much in the interest of the Iranians because they wanted revenge against Saddam Hussein for Iraq's invasion in 1980"

William Odom, Soldier

"I don't think that the war serves U.S. interests. I think Osama bin Laden's interests and the Iranian interests are very much served by it, and it's becoming a huge drain on our resources, both material and political"

William Odom, Soldier

"But I would make it unambiguously clear that we are going to withdraw, and if Iraq falls into civil war and if all these unhappy things occur, we're just going to have to accept them"

William Odom, Soldier

"The Fuhrer is always right. Every last citizen must say this"

Robert Ley, Soldier

"He who does not believe has no soul. He is empty. He has no ideals. He has nothing to live for. He has no sunshine, no light, no joy in life. He is a poor, poor man"

Robert Ley, Soldier

"Only faith is sufficient"

Robert Ley, Soldier

"Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?"

John W. Foster, Soldier

"The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe"

William Odom, Soldier

"So the idea that you could put Kurds, Shiite Arabs, and Sunni Arabs in a nice, liberal, federal system in Iraq in a short amount of time, six months or a year, boggles the mind"

William Odom, Soldier

"Once we destroyed the Saddam regime, we knew there was going to be a civil war"

William Odom, Soldier

"Military officers from different countries, when they meet each other, tend to sort of fall in love, become mutual admiration societies, at the expense of realities"

William Odom, Soldier

"I will make a general statement that we have not had anything like the policy of holding people in high office responsible for their acts that I think we should"

William Odom, Soldier

"I remember serving in Vietnam in that war, and many of us at the Major, Lieutenant Colonel, Colonel level were frustrated that no one in the U.S. wanted to debate it that way"

William Odom, Soldier

"Firing off 1,000 or 500 or 2,000 nuclear warheads on a few minutes' consideration has always struck me as an absurd way to go to war"

William Odom, Soldier

"To me our bombing policy appears to be suicidal. Not because it does not do vast damage to our enemy, it does; but because, simultaneously, it does vast damage to our peace aim, unless that aim is mutual economic and social annihilation"

J. F. C. Fuller, Soldier

"Therefore, once U.S. forces leave, it is almost inevitable that an anti-Western, anti-U.S. regime will arise"

William Odom, Soldier

"The presidents I served under don't have anything to do with my politics"

William Odom, Soldier

"It was not in our interest to enter Iraq in the first place"

William Odom, Soldier

"We need to go to the niceties of approaching the U. N. and let them have a chance to take it over, but we should set some sort of date and begin to move out and leave it to whoever takes over"

William Odom, Soldier

"I've decided that the political context is such that the only way reform will finally come about in the Russian military is that the deterioration goes beyond the point to which these old generals can stand up there and resist it"

William Odom, Soldier

"The town caught fire in several places, shells crashed and burst, and solid shot rained like hail"

James Longstreet, Soldier

"General Pickett, finding the battle broken while the enemy was still reinforcing, called the troops off"

James Longstreet, Soldier

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