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"When I introduced a black soldier, Lt. Flap, in 1971, the Stars and Stripes banned the strip. They were having racial problems and thought it would increase the tensions."
"Weapons that were designed for soldiers in war theaters don’t belong on our streets."
"Let a prince be guarded with soldiers, attended by councillors, and shut up in forts; yet if his thoughts disturb him, he is miserable."
"Now nothing can be more important than that the work of a soldier should be well done."
"Honorable Senators: My sincerest thanks I offer you. Conserve the firm foundations of our institutions. Do your work with the spirit of a soldier in the public service. Be loyal to the Commonwealth and to yourselves and be brief; above all be brief."
"You cannot build up a standing army and then throw it back into a box like tin soldiers. Armies equipped to the teeth with weapons, with highly developed instruments of murder and backed by their military interests, have their own dynamic functions."
"We were required to predict a soldier's performance in officer training and in combat, but we did so by evaluating his behavior over one hour in an artificial situation. This was a perfect instance of a general rule that I call WYSIATI, "What you see is all there is." We had made up a story from the little we knew but had no way to allow for what we did not know about the individual's future, which was almost everything that would actually matter. When you know as little as we did, you should not make extreme predictions like "He will be a star.""
"That was not the biggest battle that ever was, but for me it always typified one thing; the dash, the ingenuity, the readiness at the first opportunity that characterizes the American soldier."
"How red the rose that is the soldier"
"Go, bid the soldiers shoot."
"'Tis the soldier's life to have their balmy slumbers waked with strife."
"The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind."
"Courage of the soldier awakes the courage of woman."
"It is not the desire of new acquisitions, but the glory of conquests, that fires the soldier's breast; as indeed the town is seldom worth much, when it has suffered the devastations of a siege."
"It's no disgrace to be a private, you know. Socrates was a plain foot soldier, a hoplite."
"Have not I myself known five hundred living soldiers sabred into crows' meat for a piece of glazed cotton, which they call their flag; which had you sold it at any market-cross, would not have brought above three groschen?"
"I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary."
"I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal."
"The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag."
"I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill."
