Famous quotes containing the words national, army and/or soldiers:
“[D]rilling and arming, when carried on on a national scale, excite whole populations to frenzies which end in war.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
“I declare Billy. I like you so much personally I wish I could vote for you. But bein’ a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, I just as leave cut my throat as to vote for a Democrat.”
—Laurence Stallings (1894–1968)
“Two soldiers and a villain are enough to blow up the rights of the citizens.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)