“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.” WarCountryFatherBloodCivilizationSoldierWarmCivil WarPatriotVeinsSoldiers At War Author:Clara Barton
“Men soon get tired of shedding their blood for the advantage of a few individuals, who think they amply reward the soldiers perils with the treasures they amass.” ThinkingMenWarIndividualBloodAdvantageTiredRewardsSoldierTreasurePeril Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“I, serial number 30743, Lieutenant General in reserves Yitzhak Rabin, a soldier in the Israeli Defense Forces and in the army of peace, I, who have sent armies into fire and soldiers to their death, say today: We sail onto a war which has no casualties, no wounded, no blood nor suffering. It is the only war which is a pleasure to participate in - the war for peace.” WarTodaySufferingForcePeacePleasureNumbersFireBloodArmySoldierDefenseReservesSailWoundedIsraeliCasualtiesSerialsLieutenants Author:Yitzhak Rabin
“Mud and rain and wretchedness and blood. Why should jolly soldier-boys complain? God made these before the roofless Flood - Mud and rain.” ShouldMadeBoysBloodRainSoldierComplainingFloodMudJollyWretchedness Author:Siegfried Sassoon
“Resolutions aren't self-executing. Somebody has to provide the soldiers, take the risks, risk their blood and their treasure to go out and implement such a resolution.” SelfRiskBloodSoldierTreasureResolutionExecuting Author:Shashi Tharoor
“Every lord's mansion stands on the foundation of your bones, soldier, every field has been saturated with your sweat, and you, peasant, even if you worked your arms down to the stub, if you won a hundred battles, and faithfully gave the last drop of your blood for your country, you would always be a slave. There is no land for you, no heaven, no shelter, not even a doghouse where you could rest your poor head. You are the last before God and before people, the last one.” PeopleIfsHas BeensCountryLastsHeavenPoorLordBloodLandFieldsArmsBattleHundredFoundationSlaveSoldierBonesSweatShelterPeasantsMansionsBe A SlaveSaturated Author:Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont
“Without union our independence and liberty would never have been achieved; without union they can never be maintained. Divided into twenty-four, or even a smaller number, of separate communities, we shall see our internal trade burdened with numberless restraints and exactions; communications between distant points and sections obstructed or cut off; our sons made soldiers to deluge with blood the fields they now till in peace...The loss of liberty, of all good government, of peace, plenty, and happiness, must inevitably follow a dissolution of the Union.” Has BeensMadeGovernmentCommunityLossNumbersLibertyFourCuttingBloodFieldsSonCommunicationTwentiesIndependenceTradeUnionsSoldierPlentyInternalsDividedRestraintSectionsDissolutionDeluge Book:Annual messages, veto messages, protest, &c. of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States Source: Annual messages, veto messages, protest, &c. of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States
“When the course of events shall have removed you to distant scenes of action where laurels not nurtured with the blood of my country may be gathered, I shall urge sincere prayers for your obtaining every honor and preferment which may gladden the heart of a soldier.” HeartMayCountryActionCoursesPrayerBloodEventsHonorSceneSoldierUrgesSincereObtainingLaurelsSincere Prayer Author:Thomas Jefferson
“In a country like Iraq with its culture of blood feuds - is that the more locals are killed, the more motivation there is for the insurgency, for the insurgents the more feelings of revenge there are, and in the end the more the operational security of the soldiers suffers, because any soldier who kills an infant today is grooming the killer of his mate tomorrow.” EndsCountryFeelingsTodayMotivationSufferingCultureBloodSecurityTomorrowSoldierIraqRevengeLocalsMatesKillersInfantInsurgentGroomingInsurgencyFeuds Author:Yaroslav Trofimov
“I'm happy that now we reveal something about the true Israel, because, you know, now it's Purim, when all the Jews putting mask. And once, we used to have a liberal mask. The most famous mask now in Israel is the mask of a soldier who murdered in cold blood a wounded prisoner of war. Those are the mask that most of the Israeli kids now are using. So, now, when the mask and the true is the same, maybe it's time for Democrats here to stop supporting Israel, if they care about Jews.” IfsKnowsWarCareKidsUsedBloodColdDemocratSoldierJewIsraelMaskPrisonerWoundedIsraeliPrisoner Of War Author:Udi Aloni