Soldier Quotes - page 2

On the battlefield, the military pledges to leave no soldier behind. As a nation, let it be our pledge that when they return home, we leave no veteran behind. (Dan Lipinski)
In my early years, my father was away as a soldier in the war. When he came back, work was very difficult to come by. Even though he was a highly skilled man, a maker of furniture, the payment for that work was very poor. View quote
Trevor Nunn
The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian. View quote
William Gurnall
I regard myself as a soldier, though a soldier of peace. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
Israel is the largest American aircraft carrier in the world that cannot be sunk, does not carry even one American soldier, and is located in a critical region for American national security. View quote
Alexander Haig
War loses a great deal of its romance after a soldier has seen his first battle. I have a more vivid recollection of the first than the last one I was in. It is a classical maxim that it is sweet and becoming to die for one's country; but whoever has seen the horrors of a battlefield feels that it is far sweeter to live for it. View quote
John S. Mosby
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
And like the old soldier in that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the sight to see that duty. View quote
Douglas MacArthur
I am a person always full of contradictions... It was hard to choose whether to devote myself to revolution as a soldier or as a writer. View quote
Ba Jin
One must not judge everyone in the world by his qualities as a soldier: otherwise we should have no civilization. View quote
Erwin Rommel
Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole. (Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein)
Every German soldier must be made to feel that he is living under the muzzle of a Russian gun. View quote
Vasily Chuikov
The moment the first American soldier sets foot on the Japanese mainland, all prisoners of war will be shot. View quote
Hideki Tōjō
Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where other civilizations have recognized only one. Where other civilizations give a satisfactory outlet to only one temperamental type, be he mystic or soldier, business man or artist, a civilization in which there are many standards offers a possibility of satisfactory adjustment to individuals of many different temperamental types, of diverse gifts and varying interests. View quote
Margaret Mead
A nation fights well in proportion to the amount of men and materials it has. And the other equation is that the individual soldier in that army is a more effective soldier the poorer his standard of living has been in the past. View quote
Norman Mailer
My men don't surrender. I don't want to hear of any soldier under my command being captured unless he has been hit. Even if you are hit, you can still fight back. View quote
George S. Patton
Hardly one soldier in a hundred was inspired by religious feeling of even the crudest kind. It would have been difficult to remain religious in the trenches even if one had survived the irreligion of the training battalion at home. View quote
Robert Graves
War means fighting. The business of the soldier is to fight. Armies are not called out to dig trenches, to throw up breastworks, to live in camps, but to find the enemy and strike him; to invade his country, and do him all possible damage in the shortest possible time. This will involve great destruction of life and property while it lasts; but such a war will of necessity be of brief continuance, and so would be an economy of life and property in the end. To move swiftly, strike vigorously, and secure all the fruits of victory is the secret of successful war. View quote
Stonewall Jackson
I am not going to talk about patriotism, duty, liberty, and the defense of freedom - because that's all dung to a soldier. View quote
David Gemmell
The General hopes and trusts that every officer and man will endeavor to live and act as becomes a Christian soldier defending the dearest rights and liberties of his country. View quote
George Washington
Considering mankind's indifference to freedom, their easy gullibility and their facile response to conditioning, one might very plausibly argue that collectivism is the political mode best suited to their disposition and their capacities. Under its regime, the citizen, like the soldier, is relieved of the burden of initiative and is divested of all responsibility, save for doing as he is told. (Albert Jay Nock)
A soldier has one item that cannot be neglected. His feet. They are his wheels, his mechanised warfare. View quote
Leon Uris
The system is wrong. I am ashamed to be an American. And the title of 'U. S. soldier' is just the lie of fools. View quote
Bowe Bergdahl
100,000 soldiers are reported to have died in the Iraqi war. If you count 100 relatives of each soldier, it means that practically there are millions of people who now have antagonism toward the white people of America. These Arab people will remember this country whose main religion is Christianity, who came and destroyed all Iraqi facilities and industry. They won't easily forget this. View quote
Sun Myung Moon
And then, for an old man like me, it's not exactly right, This kind o' playing soldier with no enemy in sight. View quote
Bret Harte