Quotes About Enlistment

the mob and the militia — officially every man between the ages of sixteen and sixty — were one and the same.

By the war's end, some 180,000 blacks had served in the Union Army—over one fifth of the nation's adult male black population under age forty-five.

Considering our backgrounds, I found it a strange irony that Ian and I should meet in central Borneo. Both of us were set in motion by the war in Southeast Asia. Ian enlisted. I left the country several weeks before an FBI agent arrived at my parents' front door.

In some communities young men who hesitated to volunteer received packages containing petticoats, or were seized by boisterous mobs and thrown into ponds.7 Thousands of persons indifferent to enlistment, and many who were downright opposed to it, were swept into the ranks in 1861 by the force of articulate popular pressure.

I'm asking you to believe. Not just in my ability to bring about real change in Washington . . . I'm asking you to believe in yours. Keeping faith with those who serve must always be a core American value and a cornerstone of American patriotism. Because America's commitment to its servicemen and women begins at enlistment, and it must never end.

Several paragraphs of dense text began to scroll across the screen, an unreadable blur of legalese outlining all the details of enlistment. It would have taken hours to read it all, and then I still probably wouldn't have understood a word of it.

If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army.

Just so you know, I'm goin' to enlist." "I'm proud of you. But why?" I groan against the pain but manage to give him a half smile. "I want to make sure Kiara's got a boyfriend who has more to offer than a hot bod and a face that could make angels weep.

In high school, I enlisted in the Army and served in the 25th Infantry Division.

MAVNI was never intended to be utilized for the benefit of illegal aliens.

Spiritually we start from that moment and that place where we decide to re-commit ourselves to the Journey, to re-surrender our wills to the will of the Great Source, to enlist with finality in the Company of Light. Sooner or later this great moment comes to us, but it must be with finality,

You know, actually, I went to Yale because I wanted to stay out of the army.

With no draft, the only people who went to war were those who wanted to, or at least those who wanted to join the military.

I had joined the army as a sepoy in 1951.

I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.

Al incorporarse a la legión, el legionario quedaba exento de pagar impuestos y dejaba de estar sometido a la ley civil. Una vez entraba a formar parte del ejército, su vida estaba gobernada por la ley militar, que, en muchos aspectos, era más severa que el código

I'm against the draft. I believe we should have a professional military; it might be smaller, but it would be more effective.

Repeatedly between 2000 and 2001, the al-Qaeda leader had asked al-Zarqawi to return to Kandahar and make bayat—or pledge allegiance—which was the sine qua non for full al-Qaeda enlistment.

In fact, about five thousand white North Carolinians served in Union uniforms over the course of the war. Three thousand white Alabamians did the same thing, as did seven thousand white Louisianans and ten thousand white Arkansans. Virginia alone (especially its western counties) supplied some thirty thousand recruits. The largest single contingent hailed from Tennessee—some forty-two thousand in number.

I think it's very uncomfortable for people to talk to children about war, and so they don't because it's easier not to. But then you have young people at eighteen who are enlisting in the army, and they really don't have the slightest idea what they're getting into.

I was a good soldier in the British Army. I was born in a very, very poor family. And I enlisted to escape hunger. But my officers were Scottish and they loved me. The Scots are good, you know.

I've never been a soldier. In Denmark, at 18, as a male, you go in a draw, and if they pick you, you go and serve for a year. I didn't.

The only useful thing about military service is that it reveals the number of morons in the population,' he would remark. 'And that can be discovered in the first two weeks; there's no need for two years.

When I turned 15, I left school having failed to make the minimum grade. With little direction I enlisted at the local culinary school. Here the academic demands were less rigorous.