State Soldiers Home

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

    “A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.”
    —Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)

    “How red the rose that is the soldier’s wound,
    The wounds of many soldiers, the wounds of all
    The soldiers that have fallen, red in blood,
    The soldier of time grown deathless in great size.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “Not always can flowers, pearls, poetry, protestations, nor even home in another heart, content the awful soul that dwells in clay.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)