Famous quotes containing the words irish and/or soldiers:
“Ireland still remains the Holy Isle whose aspirations must on no account be mixed with the profane class-struggles of the rest of the sinful world ... the Irish peasant must not on any account know that the Socialist workers are his sole allies in Europe.”
—Friedrich Engels (1820–1895)
“It is easier to get a thousand soldiers than to find one good general.”
—Chinese proverb.