Young men Quote by Jacques Marquette

My stepfather was a military man: he was in the Air Force. Reserve. You thought he'd seen front-line action, but he was stationed in…

— Fred Willard

“Alleging that the Mormons had committed a long list of treasonous acts, in May 1857 Buchanan dispatched a contingent of federal officials to restore…

— Jon Krakauer

“George Powers of Little Rock, Arkansas, made a statement which was read at a public indignation meeting in Los Angeles on October 12, 1857,…

— Juanita Brooks

The De Bernieres were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier.

— Louis de Bernieres

“[Wilford] Woodruff met with three members of the Young family: Elder [Brigham] Young [Jr.]; his brother, Major Willard Young; and their nephew, Captain Richard…

— James I. Mangum

“War. In 1901, he graduated from the Virginia Military Institute, where he marched before Stonewall Jackson’s widow. He soon joined the Army, which then…

— Thomas E. Ricks

“Before these laws could be put into effect, a new wave of white settlers swept westward and formed the territories of Wisconsin and Iowa.…

— Dee Brown

“The Mormon teaching of unquestioning obedience to authority, added to the strict military law then in force in the Territory, would, in the eyes…

— Juanita Brooks

We were also fortunate enough to engage in our service a Canadian Frenchmen, who had been with the Chayenne Indians on the Black mountains,…

— Meriwether Lewis

My dad got selected in the Indian Army, but he was not allowed to go, as my grandparents had reservations.

— Sonu Sood

“After negotiations failed, President George Washington reluctantly called out the state militias to quash the uprising. Washington inspected and briefly rode with the troops…

— Lew Bryson

For a man to be a man, did he have to be a soldier, or at least prepare himself for war? For a woman…

— Carol Gilligan