State Soldiers Home

Famous quotes containing the words state, soldiers and/or home:

    “Only by the supernatural is a man strong; nothing is so weak as an egotist. Nothing is mightier than we, when we are vehicles of a truth before which the state and the individual are alike ephemeral.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at least they prevent us from being frightened by them.”
    —Elizabeth I (1533–1603)

    “Results are what you expect, and consequences are what you get.”
    —schoolgirl’s definition, quoted in Ladies’ Home Journal (New York, Jan. 1942)