Pastoral Resources

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

The feeling of accomplishment welled up inside of me, three Olympic gold medals. I knew that was something nobody could ever take away from me, ever.

That's the awesome part. Little girls now have a chance to look up and see women playing soccer, basketball, softball and now hockey - and know they can win a gold medal, too.

I was most impressed with the professionalism of our soldiers stationed there, and I am now more confident than ever that that the operations at Guantanamo are being conducted in a humane and necessary manner.

If we did go into a recession, something that's always possible for the U.S. or Europe, we could lower interest rates and expand the money supply without worrying about the price of gold.

But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up and exhausted all the good that fiction could give and do.

Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.

The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.

Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.

Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives.

I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers.

I believe that the purpose for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them, and that, had this been done, the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation.

This is all about a media war that continues to rage between the old and new media. Unfortunately for our soldiers, these brave Americans are caught in the crossfire.

So the whole of war, when you look at it is probably run by professional soldiers, and the rest of them are just recruits, or people who are just forced to join the army.

Even when I was very depressed, I could hold on to something. It seems that I have always had that streak of gold that I could hold on to.

We can no longer apply the classic criteria to clearly determine whether and when we should use military force. We are waging war in Afghanistan, for example, but it's an asymmetrical war where the enemies are criminals instead of soldiers.

No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war.

As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.