#soldiers

I knew that if the feat was accomplished it must be at a most fearful sacrifice of as brave and gallant soldiers as ever engaged in battle. ↗

— John B. Hood

#battle #brave #engaged #ever #fearful

One has this image of the Soviet state and the Red Army as being extremely disciplined but in the first four months of 1945 their soldiers were completely out of control. ↗

— Antony Beevor

#being #completely #control #disciplined #extremely

The majority of soldiers and officers of the Soviet Army and the allied armies treated the local population humanely. ↗

— Antony Beevor

#armies #army #humanely #local #majority

When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#been #eyes #fire #rank #soldiers

My son is not wild about going back to Iraq, but he'd sure rather do that than sacrifice all that he and his fellow soldiers have accomplished by leaving too early and inviting chaos. ↗

— Kit Bond

#accomplished #back #chaos #early #fellow

But it's been a great, humbling - and I've been very honored to have the opportunity to serve and to lead and to be the representative of our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who are in Washington. And it's been the greatest honor of my life. ↗

— Hugh Shelton

#been #great #greatest #honor #honored

They may not be conscripted against their will as the foot soldiers in a federal crusade. ↗

— John Paul Stevens

#crusade #federal #foot #may #soldiers

Among men, it seems, historically at any rate, the processes of coordination and disintegration follow each other with great regularity, and the index of the coordination is the measure of the disintegration which follows. There is no mob like a group of well-drilled soldiers when they have thrown off their discipline. And there is no lostness like that which comes to a man when a perfect and certain pattern has dissolved about him. There is no hater like one who has greatly loved. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#discipline #disintegration #hater #love #mob

The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#music #soldiers #war #marriage

Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems? ↗

— Bill Watterson

#fighting #peace #soldiers #war #problems