Quotes for All
I was away from the front lines for a while this spring, living with other troops, and considerable fighting took place while I was gone. When I got ready to return to my old friends at the front I wondered if I would sense any change in them. Ernie Pyle
Hitler overestimated the importance of [technology]. As a result, he would count on a mere handful of assault-gun detachment or the new Tiger tanks to restore situations where only large bodies of troops could have any prospect of success. Erich von Manstein
It’s all rot that they put in the war-news about the good humour of the troops, how they are arranging dances almost before they are out of the front-line. We don’t act like that because we are in a good humour: we are in a good humour because otherwise we should go to pieces. Erich … Read more
American troops on the ground in Afghanistan and Iraq. And so she [Hillary Clinton] is saying we’re not going to go back down that road, which is what the American people want. They don’t want us putting more troops. Eric Bolling
The American people don’t want additional troops on the ground. Eric Bolling
She can’t afford to commit more troops,’ Holly whispered. ‘The gate is her priority, and she needs to have as many Berserkers watching her back as possible. We are secondary at this point.’ ‘That will be her undoing,’ Artemis gasped, already suffering under the weight of the flak jacket. ‘Artemis Fowl will never be secondary.’ … Read more
I just can’t imagine that people would stand for it. People are wanting to potentially elect someone who will get our troops out, so at this stage, if the draft was reinstated, I just think that people would have none of it. Elijah Wood
We cannot simply speak out against an escalation of troops in Iraq, we must act to prevent it… There can be no doubt that the Constitution gives Congress the authority to decide whether to fund military action, and Congress can demand a justification from the president for such action before it appropriates the funds to … Read more
The triumph of the Romans was indeed sullied by their treatment of the captive king, whom they hung on a gibbet without the knowledge of their indignant general. This disgraceful act of cruelty which might be imputed to the fury of the troops, was followed by the deliberate murder of Withicab, the son of Vadomair; … Read more
The peace of the Eastern church was invaded by a swarm of fanatics [monks], incapable of fear, or reason, or humanity; and the Imperial troops acknowledged, without shame, that they were much less apprehensive of an encounter with the fiercest Barbarians. Edward Gibbon