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“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.”

Heart Lying Left Saws Land Fields Soldier Chiefs Survived Drank Fiery Belgrade Dunkirk

Author:Thomas Davis

“The Dictator' lands somewhere between wan Mel Brooks and good Adam Sandler, whose 'You Don't Mess With the Zohan,' about an Israeli Special Forces soldier at a hair salon, manages to strike better contrasts with vaguely similar culture differences - it's a nuttier movie, too.”

Culture Force Differences Land Special Hair Soldier Strikes Manage Mess Adam Contrast Dictator Israeli Brooks Salons Special Forces

Author:Wesley Morris

“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.”

People Ifs Has Beens Country Lasts Heaven Poor Lord Blood Land Fields Arms Battle Hundred Foundation Slave Soldier Bones Sweat Shelter Peasants Mansions Be A Slave Saturated

Author:Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

“I am involved in the land of a leonine and brave people, where every foot of the ground is like a well of steel, confronting my soldier. You have brought only one son into the world, but everyone in this land can be called an Alexander.”

People World Wells Feet Land Son Involved Brave Soldier Steel Confronting My Soldier Pashtuns

Author:Alexander the Great

“Every soldier should learn survival on land, sea, and in the air.”

Should Air Sea Land Survival Soldier

Author:Louis Zamperini

“All live by seeming. The beggar begs with it, and the gay courtier Gains land and title, rank and rule, by seeming; The clergy scorn it not, and the bold soldier Will eke with it his service.--All admit it, All practise it; and he who is content With showing what he is, shall have small credit In church, or camp, or state.--So wags the world.”

World States Church Land Gay Gains Soldier Credit Titles Hypocrisy Live By Camps Scorn Beggar Seeming Clergy Practise Wags Courtiers

Book:The Waverley novels. 25 vols.

Source: The Waverley novels. 25 vols.

“Private Manning is the world's pre-eminent prisoner of conscience, having remained true to the Nuremberg principle that every soldier has the right to 'a moral choice.' His suffering mocks the notion of the land of the free.”

World Suffering Choices Moral Principles Land Conscience Notion Soldier Prisoner Land Of The Free Moral Choices Nuremberg

Author:John Pilger

“We live in an idiotic capitalist self-indulgent society where the sex life of a pop star is more important than impending starvation, land mines and child soldiers in Africa, or more interesting than the world's biggest man-made natural disaster in oil fields of the Middle East.”