They fought as they revelled, fast, fiery, and true, And, though victors, they left on the field not a few; And they who survived fought and drank as of yore, But the land of their heart's hope they never saw more, For in far, foreign fields, from Dunkirk to Belgrade Lie the soldiers and chiefs of the Irish Brigade.
The media establishment senses that the boats are coming and it has taken it upon itself to stand on those beaches and do everything it can to shoot the soldiers on the boats. They know the beaches will be taken.
What if one of her father’s soldiers panicked and fired for no reason? Though pilots were carefully trained, mistakes happened and she didn’t want to be included in a statistics report under “uh-oh, my bad. ”’ (Kiara)
The British soldiers are fellows who have all enlisted for drink. That is the plain fact - they have all enlisted for drink.
I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination.
Can a general fight on the strength of soldiers, who, he knows, have no faith in him?
When they the American soldiers came, they found fit comrades for their courage and their devotion. . . . Joining hands with them, the men of America gave the greatest of all gifts - the gift of life and the gift of spirit.
I would say that what's been mobilized to this point - something on the order of several hundred thousand soldiers are probably, you know, a figure that would be required.
In the mind of all the English soldiers there is absolutely no hate for the Germans, but a kind of brotherly though slightly comtemptuous kindness - as to men who are going through a bad time as well as ourselves.
To our Soldiers: Thank you again and again, you will always matter, not only on this Memorial Day but every day!
A sense of beauty is every hindrance to a soldier; yet there would be no soldiers - or none such soldier had not men dead and living cherished and handed on the sacred fire.
I do not want to criticize while my soldiers are still bleeding and dying in Iraq.
Louis Brandeis beloved uncle, Lewis Dembitz, was an ardent abolitionist. His mother was an abolitionist in Kentucky at a time when Brandeis remembered hearing the shot from the confederate soldiers after the second battle of Bull Run. Amazing to think that he heard that and I studied with one of his last law clerks in college. And that encapsulates almost all of American history.
What could I do but go with them Civil War soldiers, or work for them and my country? The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.
Bravery in simple soldiers is a dangerous trade, to which they have bound themselves to get their livelihood.
We will be soldiers, so our sons may be farmers, so their sons may be artists
If soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army.
In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.
You cannot expect soldiers to change people's minds. That has to be done in other ways.