A Canadian on the ground in different parts of the world, whether they're a diplomat, an aid worker, or a soldier, has an extraordinary, powerful impact.
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
I wasn't the biggest Captain America fan, but increasingly, I see him as a great character. Winter Soldier really got into what it meant to actually represent America.
The sensors have many potential practical uses - in Government buildings, train carriages, cargo containers, on a soldier's lapel - and are a thousand times cheaper than current sensors that are used for the same purpose.
In the movies, I loved Errol Flynn whether he was playing a soldier or a pirate. I dug pirates. In fact, my first exposure to live performances was when my paternal grandfather took me to a D'Oyly Carte performance of 'The Pirates of Penzance' which impresario Sol Hurok imported from London. I loved every minute of it.
President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn't kill anybody and he didn't get anyone killed.
In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.
When I became a soldier, I was drafted in 1937, and instead of being released two years later, I had to stay on because the war had started in the meantime. I was a soldier for more than eight years, as long a time as I was Chancellor.
The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.
Childbirth changed my perception of my wife. She was now the bloodied special forces soldier who had fought and risked everything for our family.
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
I've never really had a TV career. I've been a soldier and a climber.
It takes a real man to make a true confession - a Chocolate Soldier will excuse or cloak his sin.
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
As a soldier, I stand ready to serve and protect and defend this country. And as a soldier, I know the cost of war. And as president and commander-in-chief, I will end these regime-change wars.
There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva Convention are subject to the death penalty. And that doesn't mean the soldier that committed them - that means the commanders.
We must differentiate between guilt and duty. The soldier on the front, like the common man, who does his duty everywhere, should not be held responsible for the actions of a few who also called themselves Germans.
As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.
A common soldier will make an empire, but he will eventually meet his fate and be condemned to the Great Rock.