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"And now, like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career, and just fade away...an old soldier who tried to do his duty, as God gave him the light to see that duty. Good-bye." »Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Farewell address, quoted on "We Interrupt This Broadcast" CD-ROM
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"I regard myself as a soldier, though a soldier of peace." »Mahatma Gandhi
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"A journey to the unknown shores needs a port, a ship, a wind; but more important than all of them: Courage; courage to leave the known for the unknown!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy." »David Brooks
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"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity." »Dwight D Eisenhower
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"The first who was king was a fortunate soldier Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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"Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state." »Thomas Jefferson
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"He altered the image of the Jew from that of rabbi, merchant, wanderer, to that of scientist, farmer and soldier." »Shimon Peres
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"Why you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, and th most audacious soldier, put them at a table together-and what do you get? The sum of their fears." »Winston Churchill
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"Why, you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together- what do you get? The sum of all fears." »Winston Churchill, The Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy
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"There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create." »Charles Baudelaire, Mon Coeur Mis a Nu, XXII
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"There exist only three beings worthy of respect the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create." »Charles Baudelaire
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"When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the pope. 'Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso." »Pablo Picasso
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"A preacher must be both soldier and shepherd. He must nourish, defend, and teach he must have teeth in his mouth, and be able to bite and fight." »Martin Luther
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"War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel." »Niccolo Machiavelli
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"I respect every soldier, from every country, who serves beside us in the hard work of history. America is grateful, and America will not forget." »George W. Bush, September 2, 2004, The Republican National Convention, N.Y.
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"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to the end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Something unknown is doing we don't know what." »Sir Arthur Eddington
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"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"All we know is still infinitely less than all that remains unknown." »William Harvey
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"Failure is a word unknown to me." »Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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"Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown." »Claude Bernard
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"Greater is our terror of the unknown." »Titus Livius
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"Faith is, above all, openess; an act of trust in the unknown." »Alan Watts
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"Praying is sending an SOS to the heavenly unknown." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more." »J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005
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"It is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag who gives that protester the freedom to abuse and burn that flag." »Zell Miller
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"Do not fear to step into the unknown For where there is risk, there is also reward." »Lori Hard
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"In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known." »Thomas Pickering
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"Columbus dreamed of an unknown shore at the rim of a far flung sky." »Edgar Albert Guest
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