#sold

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

#brave soldiers #burst #crashing #crawling #down

The day after the prison was transferred to the military intelligence command, they had an entire battalion - 1,200, 1,500 soldiers - arrive at Abu Ghraib just for force protection alone. ↗

— Janis Karpinski

#after #alone #arrive #battalion #command

If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces, that is eventually going to have an effect on soldiers and troops who are actually going to believe that and it's wrong. It's just wrong. ↗

— Al Franken

#after #against #armed #armed forces #believe

The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#common #courage #found #human #human nature

Those who purify your water, inspect your meat, and test your kids' toys, as well as a huge number of nurses, teachers, and our soldiers, are public employees. The firefighters who don't hesitate to rush toward danger while you run away from it - they are all public employees. ↗

— Jennifer M. Granholm

#danger #employees #firefighters #hesitate #huge

In heaven we shall appear, not in armour, but in robes of glory. But here these are to be worn night and day; we must walk, work, and sleep in them, or else we are not true soldiers of Christ. ↗

— William Gurnall

#armour #christ #day #else #glory

A warrior is free to be a hero and pull off daring do and the soldier is irresponsible if he does it. ↗

— C. J. Cherryh

#does #free #hero #irresponsible #off

I want to be a soldier as my father was. ↗

— Kaspar Hauser

#i #soldier #want

Well, really the way worked was that I had probably built fifty robots before Mystery Science Theater, and I had sold them in a store in Minneapolis in a store called Props, which was kind of a high end gift shop. ↗

— Joel Hodgson

#built #called #end #fifty #gift

And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold, The wealth of nations is men, not silk and cotton and gold. ↗

— Richard Hovey

#cotton #gold #men #nations #prate