#soldier

War always reaches the depths of horror because of idiots who perpetuate terror from generation to generation under the pretext of vengeance. ↗

— Guy Sajer

#terror #timeless #vengeance #war #world-war-ii

U.S. soldiers, with whom I now have more than a passing acquaintance, joke that they track my movements in order to know where they will be deployed next. ↗

— Christiane Amanpour

#deployed #i #joke #know #more

You go to London, you see a TV set in every cell and the sign up that all the officers must treat prisoners with dignity. What about your dedicated soldiers that have helped fight in Afghanistan and Iraq? They're living in tents and our soldiers are living in tents. So it's OK for soldiers to live in tents, in hot tents, but it's wrong for inmates? ↗

— Joe Arpaio

#afghanistan #cell #dedicated #dignity #every

Being a soldier, fighting for this country, is neither Republican nor Democrat. ↗

— Max Cleland

#country #democrat #fighting #neither #nor

I appeal to you as a soldier to spare me the humiliation of seeing my regiment march to meet the enemy and I not share its dangers. ↗

— George Armstrong Custer

#dangers #enemy #humiliation #i #march

Much as soldiers come back, they've been in combat or the edge of it and suddenly that adjustment back to civilian life is a real challenge. ↗

— Mark Dayton

#back #been #challenge #civilian #combat

The soldiers did go away and their towns were torn down; and in the Moon of Falling Leaves (November), they made a treaty with Red Cloud that said our country would be ours as long as grass should grow and water flow. ↗

— Black Elk

#cloud #country #did #down #falling

When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got to be perfectly at home in men's clothes. ↗

— Calamity Jane

#bit #clothes #custer #first #got

You can make children believe whatever you want, and the children of today are the soldiers and mothers of tomorrow. ↗

— Dudley Nichols

#children #make #mothers #soldiers #today

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

#aspects #cannot #certain #courageous #gain