Top 24 Soldiers Pay Quotes
#1. The word "salary" comes from the salt that was part of Roman soldiers' pay or that they bought with a special allowance.
Anonymous
#2. If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few; by resignation, none.
Thomas Jefferson
#3. When your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare - it's patriotism.
Cory Booker
#4. When a man could no longer pay his debts, the soldiers would seize the tabletop he would be using to display his wares (banco) and break it (rotta). Hence, bankruptcy.
Jodi Taylor
#5. But he who is hated by the people, as the wolf by the dogs - is the free spirit, the enemy of fetters, the non-adorer, the dweller in the woods.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#6. President [Barack] Obama and Hillary Clinton are proposing bringing tens of thousands of Syrian refugees to this country when the head of the FBI has told Congress they cannot vet those refugees.
Ted Cruz
#7. I had 16 other prisons that I needed to pay attention to, and we did. And I had 3,400 soldiers who were depending on me to take care of them, and I did.
Janis Karpinski
#8. You know, we've got to be responsible about our debt. We don't want the United States to ever be a dead beat, and not be able to pay its bills, either to our soldiers who are fighting or to Social Security recipients.
Claire McCaskill
#9. The Continental army got more generals than they got private soldiers, these days. An officer lives through more 'n two battles, they make him some kind of general on the spot. Now, gettin' any pay for it, that's a different kettle of fish.
Diana Gabaldon
#10. We will never build enough prisons to end our crime problem.
Hillary Clinton
#11. Appreciation is the secret to life. Become a person who appreciates and you will thrive.
Abraham Hicks
#12. Come on! Think of Miandad hitting that six off Sharma. If he could do that, you can do this.
Kamila Shamsie
#13. Remembering the treatment that had been accorded the Knights and soldiers of St. Elmo, the Maltese inhabitants of Senglea took no prisoners. Hence there arose the expression (used in Malta to this day) 'St. Elmo's pay' for any action in which no mercy is given.
Ernle Dusgate Selby Bradford
#14. The wisdom of a lonely tree is higher than the wisdom of the forest, because there is more thinking in it!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#16. Our military leaders don't seize power in coups; our soldiers and sailors don't go on strike for higher pay or benefits; our armed forces don't weigh in on the political process. In return, Americans have a sacred duty to treat them honorably.
Kathleen Troia McFarland
#17. Poetry is the science, the exact science, of feeling.
Marty Rubin
#18. Racism is a virus. And since nobody's really looking too hard for a cure it reproduces itself over and over again.
Marita Golden
#19. In times of war or peace the US will gladly pay a man to fail should his heart be in it, a small shimmering proof of the American dream.
Jonathan Culver
#20. Logan was talking about the Civil War, which claimed the lives of more than 500,000 Americans. He wanted to provide Civil War veterans with a day to pay respects to their fellow soldiers who did not live to see the end of the war, without losing a day's pay.
Doc Hastings
#21. It is soldiers who pay most of the human cost. In war it is extraordinary how it all comes down to the character of one man.
Creighton W. Abrams Jr.
#22. Haven musta been a comfortable place, a place where men weren't fighting every day just to survive. Maybe too much comfort was the problem.
Patrick Ness
#23. I saw Tequila Sunrise as a romantic picture with complex, bigger than life characters.
Conrad Hall
#24. You can't automate in the arts. Since the sixteenth century there has been no change in the number of people necessary to produce Hamlet.
William T. Wiley
