#soldier

I want it understood that all these men fought for principle, not for plunder, and that they were true-hearted, honorable soldiers, fighting for what they esteemed was a righteous cause. ↗

— Cole Younger

#esteemed #fighting #fought #honorable #i

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace. ↗

— Ulysses S. Grant

#although #any #except #felt #fondness

Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#away #being #better #get #job

Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had disintegrated. ↗

— George Grosz

#bundle #changed #defeated #disintegrated #except

I mean, Emily Harris was his wife. And she seemed to resent his leadership, but on the other hand, she felt like a good soldier, that he had to be the leader. ↗

— Patty Hearst

#felt #good #good soldier #had #hand

And Oliver North was really a good soldier, up to the last moment, shoving memos into the shredder and defending the policy to the end. ↗

— Bobby Ray Inman

#end #good #good soldier #into #last

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

#anybody #anyway #battle #because #blair

Washington has thrown their soldiers on the fire. ↗

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

#soldiers #their #thrown #washington

The great actors we had came from the actor-manager theaters. Not only did they create a team, they were the generals working with the soldiers. ↗

— Steven Berkoff

#create #did #generals #great #had

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

#alone #army #confront #crime #crime rate