Soldier Quotes

Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.

When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a labourer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do.

The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian.

I have found over the years that American soldiers and airmen thrive on competition.

When you know the truth, the truth makes you a soldier.

America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America disunited, with a hundred thousand veterans ready for combat.

I do not want to criticize while my soldiers are still bleeding and dying in Iraq.

Iran doesn't have any soldier in Syria, so how could Iran help me ?

Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of a great battle.

Prior art is as effective as US soldiers in Iraq: They control the ground they stand on, and nothing more. I used to say Vietnam, but, well, you know.

In Defense of the World Order . . . U.S. soldiers would have to kill and die.

I make my battle plans from the spirit of my sleeping soldiers

At one point in time, you've just got to be a brave soldier, and speak up. What are you scared of, you know? So many of our entertainers have that fear because we're afraid of opposition.

Of course, I think it is legitimate for the Commander-in-Chief to be concerned for the safety of his soldiers.

It takes all sorts to make a world - saints as well as soldiers.

Every lover is a soldier. (Love is a warfare.) [Lat., Militat omnis amans.]

A soldier plods and groans, sweats and toils, he growls and curses, and at the end he dies.

Mud and rain and wretchedness and blood. Why should jolly soldier-boys complain? God made these before the roofless Flood - Mud and rain.

To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.

The scene was not a happy one yet we looked upon it in the cold stoical spirit of a soldier; a slight chilling pang and then a return soul and body to the enemy before us.

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

I lay in my bed night after night staring at the ceiling and thinking, Why have I survived the war? Why was I the last person in my immediate family to be alive? I didn’t know.

I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.

Ministers regularly meet soldiers that have returned from operational tours to hear about their experiences, including those who have recovered from their injuries.

I remember when I was a private soldier. I remember the days when I was taken care of and when I was not taken care of.

Zeal is ever the buckler and shield of a true soldier.

Professional soldiers are people who die for a living.

We are all happy when U.S. soldiers are killed week in and week out. The killing of U.S. soldiers in Iraq is legitimate and obligatory.

I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.

Heavenly Father, I'm a soldier I'm gettin, hotter, cuz the world is gettin' colder.

You have to be a soldier and a veteran, or a soldier who sacrificed your life for your country.

Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?

The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength.

Part of a soldier's duty is to fill gaps...one must be willing to be nothing, as something.

Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers' imperial dreams.

I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier.

The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.

I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion, and I will right myself like a soldier.

A soldier has one item that cannot be neglected. His feet. They are his wheels, his mechanised warfare.

He's a soldier; and for one to say a soldier lies, is stabbing.

You may be sensitive inside, but what I see on the outside is a soldier.

Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier.

Die never for a god, Nikodemos who should know better - not your soldiers' god, nor any other.

Most recently, terrorist forces have captured Israeli soldiers and fired rockets into Israeli cities - both unprovoked. These acts of aggression deserve the rapid and decisive response they received.

We must love men more than things, and I admire and weep more for the soldiers than for the churches which were only the recording of an heroic gesture which today is reenacted at every moment.

I surrendered my moral conscience to the fact that I was a soldier, and therefore a cog in a relatively low position of a great machine.

The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.

Advantage is a better soldier than rashness.

A father who denies a child of his attention is no better than a fully-equipped medic who watches idly as a soldier bleeds to death.

I know what I'm capable of; I am a soldier now, a warrior. I am someone to fear, not hunt.