Circumstances Quote by Lester B. Pearson

“Ever since I served as an infantryman in the First World War I had a great dislike of people who themselves in ease and…

— C.S. Lewis

My duty to the army and to the republic whose battles we were waging forbade me assuming a position of seeming hostility to any…

— Zachary Taylor

I know all the bad things that happened in that war. I was in uniform four years myself.

— Ronald Reagan

“Was he proud that you became a soldier?” “No, it hurt him deeply. He was very angry with me, in his own silent, simmering…

— S.R. Wilsher

In my life as a soldier and citizen, I have seen time and time again that inaction has dire consequences.

— Stanley A. McChrystal

My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.

— W. E. B. Griffin

I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.

— Mel Brooks

I was the Commander in Chief with men and women in combat. And the idea of trying to agonize in public or show weakness…

— George W. Bush

“In all armies, soldiers serving with forward combat units shared a contempt for the much larger number of men in the rear areas who…

— Max Hastings

I was a lieutenant in World War II.

— John Eisenhower

When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got to be…

— Calamity Jane

In the military, there's a sense of camaraderie that can sometimes make people bystanders. There were a lot of really good men that I…

— MJ Hegar