Doe Quote by Patrick MacGill

It's nonsense that people join the army to serve the country, like the politicians do it only for the sake of the country.

— Sam Manekshaw

There were many, many times thereafter that Don regretted having enlisted - but so has every man who ever volunteered for military service.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Soldiers are the foundation of an army; unless they are imbued with a progressive political spirit, and unless such a spirit is fostered through…

— Mao Zedong

Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they've been given.

— Orson Scott Card

The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial law and…

— Alan Brien

It seems as if everybody in the country was getting impatient to get his or her particular soldier out of the Army and to…

— Henry L. Stimson

“Employing the officers of his army without discrimination, through ignorance of the military principle of adaptation to circumstances. This shakes the confidence of the…

— Sun Tzu

Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

“November 1775, when our Founding Fathers “. . .resolved, that two Battalions of Marines be raised. . .[and]. . .that particular care be taken that no person be appointed or…

— Tom Clancy

“Two hundred thousand Americans sent in their WIN enlistment forms. Now that the campaign season was upon us, a reeling Republican Party had something…

— Rick Perlstein

“Sure, I saw enlisted men everyday, but once they donned their uniforms and committed their lives, they became a mirage. The minute you approached…

— Kathryn Miller Haines