Famous quotes by Soldiers

"A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does"

Lewis B. Hershey, Soldier

"The ship was masted according to the proportion of the navy; but on my application the masts were shortened, as I thought them too much for her, considering the nature of the voyage"

William Bligh, Soldier

"The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its other enlargements and rendered it very secure against any attempt which is not made with considerable force"

William Bligh, Soldier

"Indeed, it is very hard, when we have let the King's subjects have so much of our lands for so little value"

Joseph Brant, Soldier

"The Diet was dissolved by a Reich Government decree"

Fritz Sauckel, Soldier

"One day I heard a speech of Hitler. In this speech he said that the German factory worker and the German labourer must make common cause with the German intellectual worker"

Fritz Sauckel, Soldier

"I am very proud of the fact that many workers in my Gau, numerous former Communists and Social Democrats, were won over by us and became local group leaders and Party functionaries"

Fritz Sauckel, Soldier

"My goal was to make first lieutenant. I never spent a lot of time worrying about what came after that"

Hugh Shelton, Soldier

"I feel very confident that Americans flying in the air are safe, and that only under the most dire of circumstances would our pilots ever even request permission to do that"

Hugh Shelton, Soldier

"I believe that this is a different war than America has ever fought in the past. It is a non-conventional war. It means that you've got to use every tool you've got available to you"

Hugh Shelton, Soldier

"Sweat saves blood"

Erwin Rommel, Soldier

"Many years before I had left a beautiful country and a rich nation, and I returned to that country six years later to find it fundamentally changed and in a state of upheaval, and in great spiritual and material need"

Fritz Sauckel, Soldier

"I attended the elementary school at Schweinfurt and the secondary school"

Fritz Sauckel, Soldier

"I think that the American people should rest assured and be assured that every federal agency that has a role to play in this terrorism is working overtime now, taking every necessary action to protect our great citizens"

Hugh Shelton, Soldier

"But it's been a great, humbling - and I've been very honored to have the opportunity to serve and to lead and to be the representative of our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who are in Washington. And it's been the greatest honor of my life"

Hugh Shelton, Soldier

"And so I'm still giving some thought - I will transition hopefully into the corporate world. And I look forward to getting involved in several other areas that I have a great interest in"

Hugh Shelton, Soldier

"The reason I exercise is for the quality of life I enjoy"

Kenneth H. Cooper, Soldier

"He who gives love receives love"

Omar Torrijos Herrera, Soldier

"There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights"

Smedley Butler, Soldier

"If you look at body fat, it seems to increase with age, even though your weight does not. That's a physiological fact of aging, they say. Heck it is. It is an adaptive effect of aging"

Kenneth H. Cooper, Soldier

"If man does find the solution for world peace, it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known"

George C. Marshall, Soldier

"The preparations for my new voyage prevented the possiblity of my paying that attention to the correction of my errors, that I should otherwise have done"

Zebulon Pike, Soldier

"Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation"

Zebulon Pike, Soldier

"Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?"

Zebulon Pike, Soldier

"May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country"

Zebulon Pike, Soldier

"In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army"

Zebulon Pike, Soldier

"I was informed... that some... were dreaming and wished to return"

Zebulon Pike, Soldier

"Few Indians only had breech cloths, most being wrapped in buffalo robes, otherwise quite naked"

Zebulon Pike, Soldier

"Among various demands and charges I gave them was that the said flag should be delivered to me and one of the United States' flags be received and hoisted in its place"

Zebulon Pike, Soldier

"So I've broadened the fitness concept to make it one of moderation and balance"

Kenneth H. Cooper, Soldier

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