Famous quotes containing the words black and/or soldier:
“There with vast wings across the canceled skies,
There in the sudden blackness the black pall
Of nothing, nothing, nothingnothing at all.”
—Archibald MacLeish (18921982)
“A nation fights well in proportion to the amount of men and materials it has. And the other equation is that the individual soldier in that army is a more effective soldier the poorer his standard of living has been in the past.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)