Famous quotes by Soldiers

"I think anybody in our - in the, in the national security apparatus has, has got to take full cognizance of their responsibility for the safeguarding of classified information"

Michael Mullen, Soldier

"Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success"

Erwin Rommel, Soldier

"We ought to be beating our chests every day. We ought to look in the mirror, stick out our chests, suck in our bellies, and say, 'Damn, we're Americans,' and smile"

Jay Garner, Soldier

"In my Gau, as far as I know, only Communists who had actually worked against the State were arrested"

Fritz Sauckel, Soldier

"But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility"

Erwin Rommel, Soldier

"When she became very ill with heart trouble, I saw that it would be impossible for my parents to provide for my studies, and I obtained their permission to go to sea to make a career for myself there"

Fritz Sauckel, Soldier

"The controversies between the proletariat and the middle class had to be smoothed out and bridged over by each getting to know and understand the other"

Fritz Sauckel, Soldier

"The citizen parties, by an absolute majority, elected a National Socialist Government"

Fritz Sauckel, Soldier

"I was never informed in advance about the start of the war or about foreign political developments"

Fritz Sauckel, Soldier

"I could not have the honour of being a German soldier because of my imprisonment in the First World War. And in this World War the Fuehrer refuses to allow me to serve as a soldier"

Fritz Sauckel, Soldier

"Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems"

Fritz Sauckel, Soldier

"Whether or not you could actually increase the size of the force is something that will have to be determined"

Hugh Shelton, Soldier

"I'm not going to say whether I'm a Republican or a Democrat"

Hugh Shelton, Soldier

"Well, I enjoy sharing in the dangers that we ask our men and women in uniform to share in almost every day"

Hugh Shelton, Soldier

"Wayne Downing is also a great leader, has served our nation very well, and I think it's great that he's coming back to join a very capable administration already of dealing with this problem, and it will just strengthen that team"

Hugh Shelton, Soldier

"They were involved in a firefight and felt they were surrounded. Whether they escaped from that and were fleeing and went in the wrong direction, we don't know"

Hugh Shelton, Soldier

"There are a lot of things that have to be considered in national. The military aspect of it is only one of them. I'm confident that President Bush will have all of those things laid out for him before he makes the decision"

Hugh Shelton, Soldier

"I always concentrated on doing the very best that I could in the job and the duties that I was assigned"

Hugh Shelton, Soldier

"The future battle on the ground will be preceded by battle in the air. This will determine which of the contestants has to suffer operational and tactical disadvantages and be forced throughout the battle into adoption compromise solutions"

Erwin Rommel, Soldier

"My connection with the Reich Ministers was of a purely official nature and was very infrequent"

Fritz Sauckel, Soldier

"I was elected to the Diet in the same way as at every parliamentary election"

Fritz Sauckel, Soldier

"I had repeatedly made written requests to the Fuehrer that I might be allowed to join the Wehrmacht as an ordinary soldier. He refused to give me this permission"

Fritz Sauckel, Soldier

"I did that all the more, if I may say so, because I was aware of the fact that there is an inclination to go to extremes in German people, and in the German character generally"

Fritz Sauckel, Soldier

"I became Gauleiter in 1927"

Fritz Sauckel, Soldier

"Well, it has been rather hectic since the 11th of September. And even before then it was quite busy"

Hugh Shelton, Soldier

"Our people are working overtime - I say our people; our federal agencies in this regard - and that I'm confident that the way that you can stop this and make Americans the most protected for this is to take it to the terrorist groups"

Hugh Shelton, Soldier

"It is changing the face of terrorism. It is basically bringing it to the United States, to our great citizens. We know the terrorists are barbaric and murderers that attack innocent civilians, as they did in this case"

Hugh Shelton, Soldier

"But again, we, I think, over the years have set the example for a lot of nations that may not have had the same values, the same type of coming out of the same culture that we as Americans have and enjoy. But we can be an example, a role model for them"

Hugh Shelton, Soldier

"The dissolution of the trade unions was in the air then"

Fritz Sauckel, Soldier

"As I, as a worker, came to know them, the aims of German trade unions were political, and there were a number of various trade unions with varied political views"

Fritz Sauckel, Soldier

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