Feet Quote by Tim O'Brien

“I would wish this book could take the form of a plea for everlasting peace, a plea from one who knows... Or it would…

— Tim O'Brien

The most important thing I learned is that soldiers watch what their leaders do. You can give them classes and lecture them forever, but…

— Colin Powell

War is killing the individual in it unless he has learned livingness - if he had it he wouldn't be a good soldier.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Soldiering is a very important profession, is it not?

— Mike Jackson

If war teaches you anything, it is an appreciation of being alive.

— Bruce Grobbelaar

A soldier has one item that cannot be neglected. His feet. They are his wheels, his mechanised warfare.

— Leon Uris

A soldier's longing to talk about his experiences of battle is a wound that never heals.

— Ralph Peters

The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession.

— Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

Good teaching is creating really interesting generalizations out of war stories.

— Derek Bok

It is impossible to give a soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him.

— Henry David Thoreau

It is remarkable that soldiers by profession, men truly and unquestionably brave, seldom advise war but in cases of extreme necessity.

— Benjamin Franklin

Without patriotic political education, a soldier is only a potential criminal.

— Thomas Sankara