Soldier Quotes

The moral difference between a soldier and a civilian is that the soldier accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the body politic of which he is a member. The civilian does not.

In order to be a good soldier it is necessary to know how to dance.

A warrior is free to be a hero and pull off daring do and the soldier is irresponsible if he does it.

Remember, officers and soldiers, that you are fighting for the blessings of liberty.

Just as armor protects the soldier, spiritual knowledge protects us from the difficulties of life.

Good soldiers are defined by what they can endure, not by what they can inflict.

The problems I had existed before I did, and I discovered them.

There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

I'm just a living witness that you can be an imperfect soldier and still be in the army fighting for God Almighty. Don't you think you got to be perfect 'cause I ain't.

We march up, moody or good-tempered soldiers - we reach the zone where the front begins and become on the instant human animals.

Destiny's Champion, Fate's fool. Eternity's Soldier, Time's Tool.

Policeman are soldiers who act alone; soldiers are policeman who act in unison.

Liberty knows nothing but victories. Soldiers call Bunker Hill a defeat; but liberty dates from it though Warren lay dead on the field.

War always reaches the depths of horror because of idiots who perpetuate terror from generation to generation under the pretext of vengeance.

Resolutions aren't self-executing. Somebody has to provide the soldiers, take the risks, risk their blood and their treasure to go out and implement such a resolution.

Drinking is the soldier's pleasure.

The natural formation of the country is the soldier's best ally

Drill your soldiers well, and give them a pattern yourself.

All generals, officers, and soldiers who capitulate in battle to save their own lives should be decimated.

The soldiers currently manning our sophisticated weaponry have room temperature IQ's.

The measure of a civilization is in the courage, not of its soldiers, but of its bystanders.

War has become an affair of machines...and soldiers are little more than clever mechanics.

The only way for a soldier to not be afraid of wars is to accept the fact that he is already dead.

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

Maybe a president who didn't believe our soldiers were going to heaven might be a little less willing to get them killed.

Egypt firmly and strongly condemns such attacks on civilians and soldiers that led to the deaths of a large number of innocent victims.

A soldier's first duty is to obey, otherwise you might as well do away with soldiering.

Let every man remind their descendants that they also are soldiers who must not desert the ranks of their ancestors, or from cowardice fall behind.

I, serial number 30743, Major General Yitzhak Rabin, am a soldier in the army of peace.

While I was serving, I worked as an adventure training officer, teaching soldiers how to ski, canoe and climb.

It's a Vietnamese soup that answers the question, 'What happens when a former child soldier pours hot rain water over fish nightmares.' It's delicious and I can't stop eating it, that's what happens.

The British soldier who thought himself superior, actually became so.

At Rest An American Soldier And Defender of the Constitution.

America does not like losers. Look how we treated those soldiers who came back from Vietnam. Because they lost. America likes winners.

I dedicate my love and whole heart this Memorial Day to my Dad, a soldier, who like many others, suffers in silence with pride and honor.

Every morning is a battle between the superego and the id, and I am a mere foot soldier with mud and a snooze button on her shield.

Every lover is a soldier.

It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.

My Guardian is the Planet of Silence. Soldier Of Death and Rebirth Sailor Saturn! - Hotaru as Sailor Saturn

Outsidetheir laboratories, thephysicianand chemist are soldiers without arms on the field of battle.

I'm always embarrassed when people say that I'm courageous. Soldiers are courageous. Policemen are courageous. Firemen are courageous. I just have a thick hide and disregard what silly people say.

You cannot demand military service of Christians any more than you can of priests. We do not go forth as soldiers with the Emperor even if he demands this.

I don’t duel, boy. I kill as a soldier kills, which is as a butcher kills, as quickly, efficiently, and with as least risk to myself as I can arrange.

In war, discipline is superior to strength; but if that discipline is neglected there is no longer any difference between the soldier and the peasant.

A sense of beauty is every hindrance to a soldier; yet there would be no soldiers - or none such soldier had not men dead and living cherished and handed on the sacred fire.

The first quality of a soldier is constancy in enduring fatigue and hardship. Courage is only the second. Poverty privation and want are the school of the good soldier.

The soldier's heart, the soldier's spirit, the soldier's soul, are everything.

...but for a soldier his duty is plain. He is to obey the orders of all those placed over him and whip the enemy wherever he meets him.

From 8,000 miles away... I would not judge a fellow soldier from a friendly nation and how they are employing their resources.