National guard Quote by Bill Bryson

“If I decide to make a career in the army, he said, I would never be rich, but I would live one of the…

— Roméo Dallaire

“He had discovered early in his military career that if one has an effective and experienced officer above, coupled with effective and experienced soldiers…

— Joe Abercrombie

“I've never known him as a civilian. Never known him as just a regular guy, something I'm not sure he--or any warrior--can ever be…

— Ellen Hopkins

“On the whole, I wonder'd much how such a man came to be intrusted with so important a business as the conduct of a…

— Benjamin Franklin

“As he spoke, he looked into their faces and saw, as though in his own features, that fundamentally they all bore the indelible impress…

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

“I was fascinated by all the great generals, from Alexander the Great to George Patton. I hated war, but I loved the warrior spirit.”

— Phil Knight

“He'd been a successful soldier, as these things went; he'd generally been on the winning side, and had killed more of the enemy by…

— Terry Pratchett

“And I served as an officer in the army.” “Very impressive. I’ve been told that war is boredom interspersed with violence and terror.”

— Julie Anne Long

“In his combination of earnestness, social conscience, and willingness to scrap, he was a perfect hero for 1943, as America went about the rumbling,…

— Michael Chabon

“He was a district attorney in Pennsylvania. I was a writer on Cape Cod. We had been privates in the war, infantry scouts. We…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Here, dear reader, you must summon patient compassion. Try to imagine the hardships of a military officer triply burdened by close relationships with political…

— Chris Bray

“No commander was ever privileged to lead a finer force; no commander ever derived greater inspiration from the performance of his troops.”

— John J. Pershing