#soldiers

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

My very first recollection of life on earth was waking up in bed with my mother, and she was showing me a picture of my father, Charles Jackson, with a group of soldiers. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#charles #earth #father #first #group

We were ordered out to quell an uprising of the Indians, and were out for several days, had numerous skirmishes during which six of the soldiers were killed and several severely wounded. ↗

— Calamity Jane

#during #had #indians #killed #numerous

Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice. ↗

— Lin Yutang

#lawyers #liberty #many #peace #policemen

Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty. ↗

— Sallust

#defend #friends #good #good deeds #honesty

I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers. ↗

— Siegfried Sassoon

#am #behalf #convinced #i #i am

Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows. ↗

— Siegfried Sassoon

#death #dividend #drawing #grey #land

So the whole of war, when you look at it is probably run by professional soldiers, and the rest of them are just recruits, or people who are just forced to join the army. ↗

— Gerald Scarfe

#forced #join #just #look #people

Jehovah, the great and mighty God of Israel, protects and gives His warriors victory over His enemies, Selah." ~R. Alan Woods [2013] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#jehovah #r-alan-woods #r-alan-woods

They were mostly French, a few Arabs, and despite their uniforms they didn't look very important any more. Later I learned that if you watch men die, especially if you've known them at all, they still look important afterward no matter what you have to do with them, but I was inexperienced then. ↗

— Douglas Woolf

#soldiers #war #death