William Boykin Quotes

#1. [On General William Boykin] I hope he's not long for this world.

Nina Totenberg

#2. Our cause in the war on terror isn't helped when we have army officers like Lieutenant General William Boykin speaking in evangelical churches and claiming this as some sort of battle for the Christian religion. That's wrong. That's un-American.

John F. Kerry

#3. They [international terrorists] are after us because we're a Christian nation.

William G. Boykin

#4. It is not such a thing, is it - to die for your friends.

Sarah J. Maas

#5. George Bush was not elected by a majority of the voters in the United States, he was appointed by God.

William G. Boykin

#6. The enemy is a spiritual enemy. He's called the principality of darkness. The enemy is a guy called Satan.

William G. Boykin

#7. The Jews are the problem. The Jews are the cause of all the problems in the world.

William G. Boykin

#8. If there is no God, there is no hope.

William G. Boykin

#9. You know what? I knew that my God was bigger than his [about Muslims in Somalia]. I knew that my God was a real God and his was an idol.

William G. Boykin

#10. There is no greater threat to America than Islam.

William G. Boykin

#11. Seems indecisive, doesn't it? Either be a period or be a comma, but make up your mind.

Jodi Picoult

#12. Warrior actions are derived from the warrior soul. The best know it and nurture it. And once you have it, it never leaves. The warrior soul does not weaken. Long after the body has broken down, the soul stands tall.

William G. Boykin

#13. We will never walk away from Israel ... Many of us are worried about heaven. Heaven is your reward. You are here as soldiers to take on the enemy.

William G. Boykin

#14. Why is this man in the White House? The majority of Americans did not vote for him. Why is he there? And I tell you this morning that he's in the White House because God put him there for a time such as this.

William G. Boykin

#15. And so, like many others, their honeymoon was a failure; yet they would not admit this to themselves, and they did not realize the significance of the failure until long afterward.

John Edward Williams

#16. The new growth in the plant swelling against the sheath, which at the same time imprisons and protects it, must still be the truest type of progress.

Jane Addams

#17. Those Muslims in America's army that stand with the Constitution, I support them, and I think we all have to.

William G. Boykin

#18. It is a pity that so often the only way to treat girls like people seems to be to treat them like boys.

Katharine Whitehorn