Famous quotes by Soldiers

"We imagined that the mildness of our government and the wishes of the people were so correspondent that we were not as other nations, requiring brutal force to support the laws"

Henry Knox, Soldier

"We have arrived at that point of time in which we are forced to see our own humiliation, as a nation, and that a progression in this line cannot be a productive of happiness, private or public"

Henry Knox, Soldier

"They wish for a general government of unity, as they see that the local legislatures must naturally and necessarily tend to retard the general government"

Henry Knox, Soldier

"The frame of mind in the local legislatures seems to be exerted to prevent the federal constitution from having any good effect"

Henry Knox, Soldier

"That taxes may be the ostensible cause is true, but that they are the true cause is as far remote from truth as light from darkness"

Henry Knox, Soldier

"Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination"

Henry Knox, Soldier

"Our political machine, composed of thirteen independent sovereignties, have been perpetually operating against each other and against the federal head ever since the peace"

Henry Knox, Soldier

"Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have been assessed too high and collected too rigidly"

Henry Knox, Soldier

"Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and against the very name of liberty"

Henry Knox, Soldier

"Every friend to the liberty of his country is bound to reflect, and step forward to prevent the dreadful consequences which shall result from a government of events"

Henry Knox, Soldier

"I don't like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books"

Omar Torrijos Herrera, Soldier

"It is vain to expect a well-balanced government without a well-balanced society"

Gideon Welles, Soldier

"Since then, I have not missed five consecutive days in getting some type of aerobic exercise, mostly jogging"

Kenneth H. Cooper, Soldier

"We must recognize the chief characteristic of the modern era - a permanent state of what I call violent peace"

James D. Watkins, Soldier

"My most profound confidence is, however, based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands a man, by his entire development, his desires, and striving, can only have been destined by fate to lead our people into a brighter future"

Alfred Jodl, Soldier

"During the first 3 years at Auschwitz, 2 million people died; over the next 2 years - 3 million"

Witold Pilecki, Soldier

"The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages"

Zebulon Pike, Soldier

"If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name"

Zebulon Pike, Soldier

"Give immediate instruction to all your posts in said territory, under your direction, at no time and on no pretence to hoist, or suffer be hoisted, the English flag"

Zebulon Pike, Soldier

"A young man who is here speaks the Panis language, and in many other respects, is preferable"

Zebulon Pike, Soldier

"The glory of the old Irish nation, which in our hour will grow young and strong again. Should we fail, the country will not be worth more than it is now. The sword of famine is less sparing than the bayonet of the soldier"

Thomas F. Meagher, Soldier

"The ship was named the Bounty: I was appointed to command her on the 16th of August 1787"

William Bligh, Soldier

"If I fall, pick up the flag, kiss it, and keep on going"

Omar Torrijos Herrera, Soldier

"My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military"

Smedley Butler, Soldier

"For fear of dropping the troops in the sea, the pilots tended to drop them too far inland - some of them actually in the British lines. The weapon containers often fell wide of the troops, which was another handicap that contributed to our excessive casualties"

Kurt Student, Soldier

"After that he turned to the question of invading England. Hitler said that during the previous year he could not afford to risk a possible failure; apart from that, he had not wished to provoke the British, as he hoped to arrange peace talks"

Kurt Student, Soldier

"According to the Gallup Poll, 24 percent of American adults exercised regularly in 1961, and 50 percent after 1968. The peak was 59 percent in 1984, dropping off to 51 percent last September"

Kenneth H. Cooper, Soldier

"The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution"

Vernon A. Walters, Soldier

"With the dreary season in which we travelled part of the route; with our minds much more actively employed in forming resources for our preservation from famine"

Zebulon Pike, Soldier

"At the lodge the chief gave me many particulars which were relative to the late visit of the Spaniards"

Zebulon Pike, Soldier

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