I'm always embarrassed when people say that I'm courageous. Soldiers are courageous. Policemen are courageous. Firemen are courageous. I just have a… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The entire deaths of Vietnam died in vain. And they're dying in vain right this very second. And you know what's worse… — Mike Gravel Copy Share Image
Reader, do you think it is a terrible thing to hope when there is really no reason to hope at all? Or… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Every rebel is, with us, more or less a soldier who has missed his vocation, a being made for a heroic life… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
You may fly over a land forever; you may bomb it, atomize it, and wipe it clean of life - but if… — T. R. Fehrenbach Copy Share Image
Alone of human beings the good and wise mother stands on a plane of equal honor with the bravest soldier; for she… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I somewhere along the way became fascinated with exploring characters who are willing to put themselves into violent situations, whether it's football,… — Peter Berg Copy Share Image
Even well-known historians like Edward Gibbon are talking about how the soldiers of the 18th century were not able to do the… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“What happened next? I retain nothing from those terrible minutes except indistinct memories which flash into my mind with sudden brutality, like… — Guy Sajer Copy Share Image
On healthcare we are the prisoner of our past. The way we got to develop any kind of medical insurance program was… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Sometimes the enormity of war overwhelms the truth that all great struggles are just the sum of individual stories. Each is more… — James Carafano Copy Share Image
“It is something that cannot be explained or even understood until you’ve lived it; a man can’t know or fully appreciate his… — Robert Patrick Lewis Copy Share Image
Here’s the thing about baseball-it’s not the individual sport I thought it was. Turns out I was wrong about that. Yeah, the… — Barry Lyga Copy Share Image
“He made a little gesture at his chest that she thought was supposed to mean he was curtsying or bowing or something… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Adam Brown’s zest for life led him down a few dark alleys and more than one dead end. Kind-hearted and wild, Adam… — Stu Weber Copy Share Image
If our highly pointed triangles of the soldier class are formidable, it may be readily inferred that far more formidable are our… — Edwin A. Abbott Copy Share Image
I think matching up Vietnam vets with these Iraqi vets would be a really great thing. When soldiers say only other soldiers… — Nina Berman Copy Share Image
I met soldiers coming back from war and I was impressed by their description of PTSD, all the symptoms: the outburst of… — Alice Winocour Copy Share Image
Every American soldier wants as much public support as he can possibly have. That's the soldiers on duty in Iraq, and that's… — John Abizaid Copy Share Image
“You would think ill of a soldier who refused to fight unless victory was certain. The person who needs religion to bolster… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
For, as I said a little way back, perfect souls are in no way repelled by trials, but rather desire them and… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
What shall I say further? Shall I not stop short and leave to your imaginations to portray the tragic deeds of war?… — Deborah Sampson Copy Share Image
See the judge upon the bench who tries the case as best he can, see the wise and wicked ones who feed… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
My heart is broken by the terrible loss I have sustained in my old friends and companions and my poor soldiers. Believe… — Duke of Wellington Copy Share Image
I'm constantly not on the right side of history. I sympathize with the soldiers in the enemy's camp. For example in WWII,… — Chloe Zhao Copy Share Image
While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Like many people, I only knew of Ford Madox Ford through a book called 'The Good Soldier,' which is everybody's favorite Ford… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I would say that what's been mobilized to this point - something on the order of several hundred thousand soldiers are probably,… — Eric Shinseki Copy Share Image
['Dad's Army' show]was a military thing but also very funny, so it's kind of the two things that I experienced by being… — Rhys Darby Copy Share Image
I have seen children shot in El Salvador, Algeria, Guatemala, Sarajevo, but I have never before watched soldiers entice children like mice… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Many soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from serious, long-term, physical and mental health problems, due to their service. It is… — Mark Dayton Copy Share Image
'The Wall' doesn't recount a specific soldier's experience in Iraq, but it captures the spirit of many experiences that were shared with… — Doug Liman Copy Share Image
“Thomas stares at the floor between us with hollow eyes. “I loved him, June,” he says after a moment. “I really did.… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
“Unquestionably, the intelligent, educated man makes, in the long run, the best soldier. There is no place for the mere brute in… — Albertus Wright Catlin Copy Share Image
“A man is never so vulnerable in a battle as when he flees," Lord Eddard has told Jon once. "A running man… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
From the time I was twelve years old until I retired last year at the age of fifty-seven, the Army was my… — Norman Schwarzkopf Copy Share Image
I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by… — Ernst Kaltenbrunner Copy Share Image
Many of our soldiers are stationed at Camp Coyote just south of the Iraqi border. This is how you know we have… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
The front-line soldier wants it to be got over by the physical process of his destroying enough Germans to end it. He… — Ernie Pyle Copy Share Image
Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming We're finally on our own This summer I hear the drumming Four dead in Ohio Gotta get… — Neil Young Copy Share Image