#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

#bringing #care #case #concluded #confidence

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

#africa #behind #even #get #lines

Whenever I look at pictures of horrific things that soldiers do or that have been done to soldiers I always feel sorry for everybody involved because politics throws them into these horrific situations where really it's just 18-year-old kids. ↗

— Gideon Raff

#because #been #done #everybody #feel

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination. ↗

— Tim Robbins

#art #certainly #doing #film #i

Women's roles are diminished for obvious reasons. It's the men whose names are on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and who were generals and soldiers. ↗

— Cokie Roberts

#declaration #diminished #generals #independence #men

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week. ↗

— Will Rogers

#diplomats #essential #fall #finishing #flat

How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth? ↗

— Curt Weldon

#brave #brave soldiers #bureaucrats #chance #deny

With courage and character, American soldiers continue to put themselves on the line to defend our freedom, and so many have paid the ultimate sacrifice. ↗

— Dan Lipinski

#american soldiers #character #continue #courage #defend

Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs. ↗

— Desmond Morris

#cats #dogs #like #soldiers

These soldiers deserve a better defense secretary than the one we have. ↗

— Bill Kristol

#defense #deserve #secretary #soldiers #than