Soldiers

Famous quotes containing the word soldiers:

    “Bravery in simple soldiers is a dangerous trade, to which they have bound themselves to get their livelihood.”
    —François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

    “According to U.S. strategy, if you never see the other, his destruction will be more acceptable ... so that when Iraqi soldiers surrendered, sooner than expected, it was as if they emerged from a dream, a flash-back, a lost epoch—an epoch when the enemy still had a body and was still “like us.””
    —Serge Daney (1944–1992)

    “Better to die, or not to have been born,
    than hear that plaining, piteous convict wail
    about these beautiful dark eyebrowed women.
    It’s soldiers who sing these days. O Lord God.”
    —Marina Tsvetaeva (1892–1941)