Soldier Quotes

Money is the sovereign queen of all delights - for her, the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights.

It's this patronizing thing that people have about if you're against the war everyone's lumped together. You know, the soldiers are not scholars, they're not war experts.

General Longstreet,when once in a fight, was a most brilliant soldier; but he was the hardest man to move I had in my army.

It is always an eerie experience to sit among Bashar al-Assad's soldiers.

The day the army of Virginia allows a negro regiment to enter their lines as soldiers they will be degraded, ruined, and disgraced.

I'm not a soldier for anything, either. I'm only a singer and I don't think it makes a difference what we sing.

I'm as interested in the families and communities that surround our soldiers.

Any time there's a lot of pressure, it's life and death, you go toward this very dark kind of humor. Soldiers do it. Cops do it.

Come you back, you British soldier; come you back to Mandalay!

A ship is worse than a gaol. There is, in a gaol, better air, better company, better conveniency of every kind; and a ship has the additional disadvantage of of being in danger.

A soldier's time is passed in distress and danger, or in idleness and corruption.

I usually play toffs and soldiers, with a sideline in mass murderers.

Tomorrow we will be nothing but earth and dust. Who will remember the love a soldier once knew?

Okay, so maybe I'm romantic... but somebody is supposed to be romantic. Some warrior is supposed to go to war against the imperial forces of cynicism and irony. I am a sentimental soldier.

She’s special. We used to unleash her on ancient battlefields just to see soldiers chop their best friends into pieces before falling on their own swords. (Deimos)

I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.

Each aspirant has to be a divine soldier. He must consciously and constantly use his divine energy to drill himself into a liberated soul.

My first soldier role was in 'Flags of Our Fathers.' Casting director Jay Binder saw that movie and was looking for soldiers for 'Journey's End,' which led to 'Generation Kill.'

I never read Ford Madox Ford's "The Good Soldier." I've been reading books that I should have read years ago and did not. That's one of them.

I mean the only thing us dead soldiers got in common is that none of us was good enough or lucky enough to survive the fight. We're a host of failures.

Soldiers are issued armour for their flesh and bones, but they must fashion their own for their souls. Piece by piece.

"Every decision you make can change the world. The best life is the one the gods don't notice. You want to live free, boy, live quietly." "I want to be a soldier. A hero." "You'll grow out of it."

It is one thing to lead by example with half a dozen soldiers at your back. It is wholly another with ten thousand.

What your soldier wants - really, really wants - is no-one shooting back at him.

The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession; like the honor of a soldier, dearer to him than life.

One should never send soldiers on a mission based on just good will and good intent. Unfortunately, that can mean one has to stand by and watch human rights abuses take place.

One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier.

Earnestly recommended to all officers and soldiers, diligently to attend divine services.

Can the foot soldier teach anything important about war, merely for having been there? I think not. He can tell war stories.

Honestly, a lot of liberals are foot soldiers in the war on Christmas.

I'm a foot soldier in the war on Christmas. And the war on puppies and sunshine.

I volunteered to deploy to Iraq. I was one of the few soldiers who were not on the mandatory deployment roster - close to 3,000 Hawaii soldiers were.

The colored man has been accustomed all his life to lean on the white man, and if a good officer is placed over him, he will learn readily and make a good soldier.

I hope that the responsible figures in the Ukrainian leadership will not hinder soldiers in the Ukrainian army from putting down their weapons.

Nobody has yet found a way of bombing that can prevent foot soldiers from walking.

Kings play at war unfairly with republics; they can only lose some earth, and some creatures they value as little, while republics lose in every soldier a part of themselves.

Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.

Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers.

What can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier?

Maybe I should stay a good soldier of cinema.

Soldiers may grow a soul when turned to fronds, But here the thing's best left at home with friends.

I will never joke about old soldiers who try to get to reunions to talk over the war again. To talk of old times with old friends is the greatest thing in the world.

I am inspired beyond my ability to articulate... and now I know what and who I want to be... a soldier for peace.

If you have form'd a circle to go into, Go into it yourself, and see how you would do. They said this mystery never shall cease: The priest promotes war, and the soldier peace.

Another soldier has been killed. Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.

Ambition, the soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, than gain which darkens him.

By the apostle Paul, shadows tonight Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers.

Some people are blinded by their experience. Soldiers know how important war is. Owners of slaves learn every day how inferior subject peoples are.

Now as to the behavior of the soldiers: occupations always corrupt the occupiers.

Like many resisting oppression, Palestinian Gandhis are likely to be found in prisons after being repressed by Israeli soldiers or police or in the hospital after being brutally beaten or worse.