Famous quotes containing the words free, state and/or soldier:
“Give a man a free hand and hell try to put it all over you.”
—Raoul Walsh, U.S. screenwriter. Frisco Doll (Mae West)
“Well, well, he said to himself, you are not in Belgium; let us begin our apprenticeship in earnest, and so long as we are in the woods, howl heartily with the wolves.”
—For the State of Nebraska, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“War. Fighting. Men ... every man in the whole realm is in the army.... Every man in uniform ... An economy entirely geared to war ... but there is not much war ... hardly any fighting ... yet every man a soldier from birth till death ... Men ... all men for fighting ... but no war, no wars to fight ... what is it, what does it mean?”
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)