Soldiers

Famous quotes containing the word soldiers:

    As soldiers we have few saving graces. Perhaps our willingness to die for what we believe in is all that matters.
    Leo V. Gordon, U.S. screenwriter, and Arthur Hiller. Col. Harker (Nigel Green)

    On becoming soldiers we have not ceased to be citizens.
    —Oliver Cromwell’s Soldiers. Address, 1647, to the English Parliament. “Humble Representation.”

    At the crash of economic collapse of which the rumblings can already be heard, the sleeping soldiers of the proletariat will awake as at the fanfare of the Last Judgment and the corpses of the victims of the struggle will arise and demand an accounting from those who are loaded down with curses.
    Karl Liebknecht (1871–1919)