Soldier Quotes

And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we say to him, "Use it well, use it wisely.

Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burn brightest, old linen wash whitest? Old soldiers, sweethearts, are surest, and old lovers are soundest.

I want to be a soldier as my father was.

But wishing our Kansas soldiers 'God speed' is not enough. We need to comfort, care for, and protect their families. And we should ease the financial burdens that these families often face

In 1917 - as we have seen, - Italy suffered a great reverse, losing 200,000 soldiers and immense supplies.

It's not just: you get off the plane, you're back home, everything's fine. Maybe the physical danger ends, but soldiers are still deeply at risk of being injured in a different way.

The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth.

I apologize to coalition forces and all the families, detainees, the families, America and all the soldiers.

I regard myself as a soldier, though a soldier of peace.

Being a soldier, fighting for this country, is neither Republican nor Democrat.

Saddam Hussein's soldiers and his great forces gave the Americans a lesson which will not be forgotten by history. Truly.

They [US soldiers] started to commit suicide on the Baghdad walls. We will encourage them to double their suicide attempts.

In time of revolution, with perseverance and courage, a soldier should think nothing impossible.

Which is heavier: a soldier's pack or a slave's chains?

An Emperor confides in national soldiers, not in mercenaries.

Revolutions are good times for soldiers of talent and courage.

I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination.

The sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers; for gold alone will not procure good soldiers, but good soldiers will always procure gold.

The sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers.

As there is no pleasure in military life for a soldier who fears death, so there is no independence in civil existence for the man who has an overpowering dread of solitude.

Now nothing can be more important than that the work of a soldier should be well done.

Let a prince be guarded with soldiers, attended by councillors, and shut up in forts; yet if his thoughts disturb him, he is miserable.

Readiness is the best way of truly taking care of soldiers.

Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.

The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind.

It's no disgrace to be a private, you know. Socrates was a plain foot soldier, a hoplite.

The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.

It is painful to talk about it, but even with its 110,000 elite soldiers, the Soviet Union never managed to gain control over the entire Afghan territory.

No American soldier should be allowed to set foot on Iranian soil, regardless of the criticism we have of the Iranian government.

I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.

The great actors we had came from the actor-manager theaters. Not only did they create a team, they were the generals working with the soldiers.

Hence the experienced soldier, once in motion, is never bewildered; once he has broken camp, he is never at a loss.

When the soldiers stand leaning on their spears, they are faint from want of food.

I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.

I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.

As a soldier, I've served with the most brave people in an institution that's built on integrity, honor, and duty.

If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you are reading it in English, thank a soldier.

Behind every American soldier, dozens of their countrymen tonight sleep soundly — and hundreds more in their shadow abroad will wake up alive and safe.

How red the rose that is the soldier

What is the world, O soldiers? It is I, I, this incessant snow, This northern sky.

Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er.

Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er, Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, Dream of battled fields no more. Days of danger, nights of waking.

I see you have returned, my love; and your mood is as dark as ever. Did your soldiers not adore you to your complete satisfaction?

We will never walk away from Israel ... Many of us are worried about heaven. Heaven is your reward. You are here as soldiers to take on the enemy.

Go, bid the soldiers shoot.

'Tis the soldier's life to have their balmy slumbers waked with strife.

The last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me.

It is a sure criterion of the civilisation of ancient Egypt that the soldiers did not carry arms except on duty, and that the private citizens did not carry them at all.

Then there was the war, and I married it because there was nothing else when I reached the age of falling in love.

The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession.