#soldier

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman. ↗

— George Santayana

#crime #dangerous #delight #merit #positive

We will not accept in our country even a single soldier who will attack Muslims or Arabs. ↗

— Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud

#arabs #attack #country #even #muslims

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

#between #brave #caught #continues #media

An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#cannot #penetrate #principles #soldiers #where

During a trip to Iraq last fall, I visited our theater hospital at Balad Air Force Base and witnessed these skilled medical professionals in action and met the brave soldiers whose lives they saved. ↗

— Melissa Bean

#air #air force #base #brave #brave soldiers

The American soldier is quick in adapting himself to a new mode of living. Outfits which have been here only three days have dug vast networks of ditches three feet deep in the bare brown earth. They have rigged up a light here and there with a storage battery. ↗

— Ernie Pyle

#american #bare #battery #been #brown

I'm as interested in the families and communities that surround our soldiers. ↗

— Robyn Carr

#families #i #interested #our #soldiers

Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole. ↗

— Bernard Law Montgomery

#before #every #fight #fighting #fits

It's hard for me to imagine that some people in the CIA who had firsthand knowledge would be unable to recognize that this would be helpful information for a soldier's death. ↗

— Christopher Shays

#death #firsthand #had #hard #helpful

I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#bandits #day #each #foresee #himself