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If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.
Sun Tzu
Longevity Money Soldiers
Our main battle has always been against Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers.
Ahmed Yassin
Battle Soldiers
Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
Sallust
Deeds Friends Honesty Merit Money Soldiers
If those in charge of our society – politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television – can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.
Howard Zinn
Control Corporate Ideas Politicians Power Press Society Soldiers Television Will
If we’re going to spend more money, it should go to the soldiers, Marines, and airmen to increase their salaries.
David Hunt
Marines Money Soldiers
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
Colin Powell
Care Confidence Day Failure Help Leadership Leading Problems Soldiers
My son is not wild about going back to Iraq, but he’d sure rather do that than sacrifice all that he and his fellow soldiers have accomplished by leaving too early and inviting chaos.
Kit Bond
Chaos Iraq Sacrifice Soldiers Son
The photos were taken by African Union soldiers. People in Congress saw them. I thought if people could see them, there would be public outcry. No one would be able to say, We just didn’t know what was going on there.
Nicholas D. Kristof
African Congress People Public Soldiers Thought
Now the true soldiers of Christ must always be prepared to do battle for the truth, and must never, so far as lies with them, allow false convictions to creep in.
Origen
Battle Christ Lies Now Soldiers Truth
Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.
Eli Khamarov
Poets Possession Soldiers Words
The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.
Huey Newton
Racism Soldiers
Our soldiers have done a valiant effort in fighting terrorism and bringing a semblance of law and order to the chaos in the region and it would be shortsighted to lay out a specific timetable to bring U.S. troops home prematurely before their mission is accomplished.
James T. Walsh
Chaos Effort Fighting Home Law Mission Order Soldiers Terrorism Troops
I apologize to coalition forces and all the families, detainees, the families, America and all the soldiers.
Lynndie England
America Soldiers
In the remaining months, we should focus on achieving more robust international involvement in training of Iraqi soldiers, police officers, judges, teachers, and doctors – all key elements needed to end the sectarian and civil conflict and build Iraq’s future.
John Olver
Conflict Doctors End Focus Future Iraq Judges Key Months Police Soldiers Teachers Training
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
Colin Powell
Care Confidence Day Failure Help Leadership Leading Problems Soldiers
It wasn’t a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers.
Hanoi Hannah
Idea Soldiers War
Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.
Sun Tzu
Children Death Soldiers Sons Will
I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.
Clara Barton
Danger Fear Fight May Soldiers
The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly no engineers and mechanics. Let Yankees adopt such low callings.
Margaret Mitchell
Doctors Lawyers Poets Soldiers
We are all happy when U.S. soldiers are killed week in and week out. The killing of U.S. soldiers in Iraq is legitimate and obligatory.
Walid Jumblatt
Iraq Killing Soldiers
This is all about a media war that continues to rage between the old and new media. Unfortunately for our soldiers, these brave Americans are caught in the crossfire.
Joe Scarborough
Americans Media Old Soldiers War
The war imbued my tin soldiers with quite a new interest. It was impossible to have boxes enough of them.
Georg Brandes
Interest Soldiers War
Our soldiers and their families are benefiting. They deserve good, quality housing and they need it.
Jim Walsh
Quality Soldiers
With no other security forces on hand, U.S. military was left to confront, almost alone, an Iraqi insurgency and a crime rate that grew worse throughout the year, waged in part by soldiers of the disbanded army and in part by criminals who were released from prison.
John Spratt
Army Crime Military Prison Security Soldiers
One or two of the trips were a bit scary. Soldiers had me at gun point on one trip, locked me in my van all night and escorted me in and out of buildings when I wanted to wash.
Joey Dunlop
Night Soldiers
We were ordered out to quell an uprising of the Indians, and were out for several days, had numerous skirmishes during which six of the soldiers were killed and several severely wounded.
Calamity Jane
Soldiers
The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
Virginia Woolf
Clothes Connection Dress Soldiers War
Soldiers are citizens of death’s grey land, drawing no dividend from time’s tomorrows.
Siegfried Sassoon
Death Land Soldiers Time
Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives.
Siegfried Sassoon
Beds Soldiers Wives
Blair… is accusing us of executing British soldiers. We want to tell him that we have not executed anybody. They are either killed in battle, most of them get killed because they are cowards anyway, the rest they just get captured.
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Battle Cowards Rest Soldiers Want
If today is anything like the typical day of the past 3 years, three American soldiers will die in Iraq or Afghanistan, the Taliban will get a little stronger in Afghanistan and the civil war will continue to be enhanced in Iraq.
Alcee Hastings
Afghanistan American Day Iraq Past Soldiers Today War Will Years
Soldiers and peasants lived together on friendly terms; they knew each other and their everyday routines, and trusted each other; they shook their heads together over the war.
Ernst Toller
Soldiers War
I perform for soldiers because they are important,’
Coolio
Soldiers
Most recently, terrorist forces have captured Israeli soldiers and fired rockets into Israeli cities – both unprovoked. These acts of aggression deserve the rapid and decisive response they received.
John Boehner
Aggression Cities Soldiers
The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.
Karl Von Clausewitz
Soldiers
The whole idea that the rescue was staged or the soldiers were shooting blanks, that’s just obvious stuff. Why would you do that in the middle of a war? It’s just crazy.
Jessica Lynch
Idea Obvious Soldiers War
The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
Buffalo Bill
Soldiers states United
If they conducted a raid in this room, you’d all be policed up. They’d take all of you to Abu Ghraib and turn you over to the soldiers. Maybe there’s only one or two of you in this group who was a known associate or had any piece of information that they are trying to exploit.
Janis Karpinski
Information Soldiers Trying
While I do not hesitate to applaud certain aspects of the resolution honoring the sacrifices of our courageous soldiers who are risking their lives in Iraq, I cannot be supportive of capitalizing on these very sacrifices for political gain.
Ed Pastor
Gain Iraq Resolution Soldiers
I believe that the purpose for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them, and that, had this been done, the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation.
Siegfried Sassoon
Change Negotiation Now Purpose Soldiers War
The experts who managed the original Marshall Plan say Afghanistan needs a commitment of at least $5 to $10 billion over 5 to 10 years, coupled with occupation forces of 250,000 Allied soldiers to keep the peace throughout the country.
Ted Rall
Afghanistan Commitment Country Experts Needs Occupation Peace Soldiers Years
I thought that that mission and the mission of taking care of those soldiers were my priorities, and I stand by the same today. There wasn’t a lot of support for those soldiers.
Janis Karpinski
Care Mission Priorities Soldiers Support Thought Today
All the rest of us – you and me and even the thousands of soldiers behind the lines in Africa – we want terribly yet only academically for the war to get over.
Ernie Pyle
Rest Soldiers Want War
If you are charged with this responsibility of enhancing interrogations, or using soldiers to enhance interrogations to find Saddam, and you’re above the law for all practical purposes, you might try some unusual techniques. Now we know that, in fact, they did.
Janis Karpinski
Fact Law Now Responsibility Soldiers
I shot down some German planes and I got shot down myself, crashing in a burst of flames and crawling out, getting rescued by brave soldiers.
Roald Dahl
Soldiers
We made them drink poison last night and Saddam Hussein’s soldiers and his great forces gave the Americans a lesson which will not be forgotten by history. Truly.
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Americans History Night Poison Soldiers Will
Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren’t they entitled to a little bit of respect – the kids, the wives, the parents?
Carl Paladino
Kids Memory Parents People Poor Respect Soldiers Wives
Once I should have been, if not satisfied, partially, at least, contented with suffrage for the intelligent and those who have been soldiers; now I am convinced that universal suffrage is demanded by sound policy and impartial justice.
Salmon P. Chase
Justice Now Policy Soldiers Sound
Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.
Lin Yutang
Justice Lawyers Liberty Peace Soldiers
Washington has thrown their soldiers on the fire.
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Fire Soldiers Washington
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