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The only absolutely and unapproachably heroic element in the soldier's work seems to be-that he is paid little for it-and regularly.

— John Ruskin

There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers.

— Michael Ignatieff

It is soldiers who pay most of the human cost. In war it is extraordinary how it all comes down to the character of…

— Creighton W. Abrams, Jr

You wouldnt believe how much I got paid for Soldier Soldier after a TV exec drunkenly told me that they couldnt make it without…

— Robson Green

It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends 500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only 53 annually on the victims of poverty.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

One million, two million, three million seems like a lot of money. But if you spend $80,000 a month, it's really nothing.

— Rob Pilatus

According to a recent Harvard study, $6 trillion, when you include the ongoing healthcare expenses for our wounded soldiers, which is the least they…

— Jill Stein

Tony Blair is paid $500,000 for one speech, and no one asks how he is going to spend it.

— Mo Ibrahim

By the time we complete the care for the wounded soldiers, $6 trillion, that's $50,000 per American household.

— Jill Stein

No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.

— John Ruskin

The budgetary cost to the UK of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan through 2010 will total more than £18 billion. If we include…

— Joseph Stiglitz

In 1995, world military spending totaled nearly $800 billion. If we redirected just $40 billion of those resources over the next 10 years to…

— Óscar Arias