The reason territorial monarchs failed time after time against maritime powers was not that absolutist, non-consensual governments were incapable of building great… — Peter Padfield Copy Share Image
Redd's face contorted with a sudden realization. "How could I have been so stupid?" The Cat was trying to decide if this… — Frank Beddor Copy Share Image
We were taught to be dependable, responsible, the top of our classes at school, the most organized and efficient babysitters in town,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The evacuation of Petersburg and Richmond, and the surrender of the principal insurgent army, give hope of a righteous and speedy peace… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The POW camps of North Vietnam were packed with Air Force and Naval Academy graduates. The six midshipmen in my Naval Academy… — Jim Webb Copy Share Image
Schools like Doon or Lawrence in Sanawar didn't decide to create leaders when they started. Look at their alumni list today, and… — Roshni Nadar Copy Share Image
Travelling childhoods are a common theme among actors. Army kids, embassy kids, travelling salesmen, clergy. Thing is, you learn about behaviour, that… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
Mr. Hussein began building Ghazalia in the early 1980s as a home for army officers and other members of his Baath Party.… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
If Paulus's army had capitulated before the end, the Russians would have had the advantage of withdrawing forces against Paulus and against… — Erich von Manstein Copy Share Image
Being in the special forces has really broken a lot of the limitations I thought I had. Thoughts like 'We've done this… — Lee Seung-gi Copy Share Image
And on nearby islands, the Japanese army was eating raw fish. We felt sorry for them. We didn't know that in America… — Bob Hope Copy Share Image
Antagoras the poet was boiling a conger, and Antigonus, coming behind him as he was stirring his skillet, said, "Do you think,… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I'm in regular contact with people who are still in the military-friends, family, people I served with, men and women I taught… — Tom Rooney Copy Share Image
Chamberlain's stubborn, fanatical insistence on giving Hitler what he wanted, his trips to Berchtesgaden and Godesberg and finally the fateful journey to… — William L. Shirer Copy Share Image
What I say is join me and be part of the army and find ways that maybe even I haven't thought of… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
While public school history courses in the United States stress the horrors of the German Nazi murder of 6 million Jews and… — Jonathan Ott Copy Share Image
“I was at the barracks about a week. Chiefly I remember the horsy smells, the quavering bugle-calls (all our buglers were amateurs—I… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The crimes committed against the people of West Papua are some of the most shameful of the past years. The Western powers… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I don't want to die and leave a few sad songs and a hump in the ground as my only monument. I… — George Jackson Copy Share Image
We entered a synagogue which was packed with the greatest stinking bunch of humanity I have ever seen. Either these Displaced Persons… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
“They say Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. Though I have never led an army, I am a… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“The most dangerous people in the world are not the tiny minority instigating evil acts, but those who do the acts for… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Lonely people have enthusiasms which cannot always be explained. When something strikes them as funny, the intensity and length of their laughter… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
I thought that I knew the world pretty well. I mean this is what I do for a living, I've been in… — Morgan Ortagus Copy Share Image
In my day, when I was a young kid, army duty was compulsory in South Africa or you go to jail. I… — Trevor Rabin Copy Share Image
Ivory is quickly becoming the new blood diamond of Africa and one that fuels militia battles. Some of the most notorious armed… — Ben Fogle Copy Share Image
The means of defence against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
My parents, fleeing a repressive regime in the Dominican Republic, were embraced by this country and taught us to love it in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Where are they now that we, the men whom they sent off to war, have returned? These are commanders who have deserted… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think a lot of concern of the people in the north is that one hears constant reports in talking to them… — Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu Copy Share Image
Governments move armies, but only individuals can move hearts. And with every act of love that emanates from any of us, we… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
When Prohibition was introduced, I hoped that it would be widely supported by public opinion and the day would soon come when… — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
When the child has reached manhood he is thoroughly saturated with the belief that he is chosen by the Lord himself to… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
He fell in October 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
The military offered the opportunity to see the world, and meet other people and learn new customs. Plus, the Army taught soldiers… — Tom Johnson Copy Share Image
The bloody years of war and all the atrocities in European history have taught the Europeans that secular politics free of religious… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
No one doubts that poison gas was used in Syria. But there is every reason to believe it was used, not by… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
As one of the first editors at 'Outside' magazine in 1975, it was my contention that most American writing going back to… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
I've been in that 'can't fail' position a lot. The first African American to be the vice chief of the Army; the… — Lloyd Austin Copy Share Image
