Soldier Quotes - page 3

So many able writers have shown that the unjust institutions which work so much misery and suffering to the masses have their root in governments, and owe their whole existence to the power derived from government. We cannot help but believe that were every law, every title deed, every court, and every police officer or soldier abolished tomorrow with one sweep, we would be better off than now. (Lucy Parsons)
How shall we rank thee upon glory's page, Thou more than soldier, and just less than sage. View quote
Thomas Moore
Destiny's Champion, Fate's fool. Eternity's Soldier, Time's Tool. View quote
Michael Moorcock
He discusses his service in Iraq, the wounds he suffered there, and he says to me in this ad, "Until you have the guts to call me a 'phony soldier' to my face, stop telling lies about my service." You know, this is such a blatant use of a valiant combat veteran, lying to him about what I said, then strapping those lies to his belt, sending him out via the media in a TV ad to walk into as many people as he can walk into. View quote
Rush Limbaugh
Unjust war is to be abhorred; but woe to the nation that does not make ready to hold its own in time of need against all who would harm it! And woe thrice over to the nation in which the average man loses the fighting edge, loses the power to serve as a soldier if the day of need should arise! View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers. View quote
Siegfried Sassoon
You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer when soldier lads march by, Sneak home and pray you'll never know The hell where youth and laughter go. View quote
Siegfried Sassoon
To me, every fundamentalist Muslim, no matter how peaceable in his own behavior, is part of a murderous movement and is thus, in some fashion, a foot soldier in the war that bin Laden has launched against civilization. View quote
Daniel Pipes
See that unfortunate soldier who is falling hurt to death ("tombe blessé à...", Fr.) on the battlefield; he learns that his folks have vanquished and dies happy. He detached himself from himself (s'est détacher de lui-même", Fr.), has identified himself with something greater and more lasting than himself; his homeland ("patrie", Fr.); thus, while dying as an individual, he has the certainty to survive in a larger existence. View quote
African Spir
Courage is the highest quality for a soldier, but technology is a fine substitute. View quote
David Mitchell (author)
A soldier told Pelopidas, "We are fallen among the enemies." Said he, "How are we fallen among them more than they among us?" (Plutarch)
What makes a Malazan soldier so dangerous? They're allowed to think. View quote
Steven Erikson
I have given instructions that I be informed every time one of our soldiers is killed, even if it is in the middle of the night. When President Nasser leaves instructions that he is to be awakened in the middle of the night if an Egyptian soldier is killed, there will be peace. View quote
Golda Meir
A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier. View quote
Gustave Flaubert
I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier. View quote
Sitting Bull
Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children? View quote
Karl Kraus
What your soldier wants -- really, really wants -- is no-one shooting back at him. View quote
Terry Pratchett
Gertrude Stein, all courage and will, is a soldier of minimalism. Her work, unlike the resonating silences in the art of Samuel Beckett, embodies in its loquacity and verbosity the curious paradox of the minimalist form. This art of the nuance in repetition and placement she shares with the orchestral compositions of Philip Glass. View quote
Elizabeth Hardwick
In the US. Infantry Manual published during World War II, the soldier was told what to do if a live grenade fell into the trench where he and others were sitting: to wrap himself around the grenade so as to at least save the others. (If no one "volunteered," all would be killed, and there were only a few seconds to decide who would be the hero.) View quote
Anatol Rapoport
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill and to create. Other men are taxable and exploitable, made for the stable, that is to say, to exercise so called professions. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
Mahomet was a great man, an intrepid soldier; with a handful of men he triumphed at the battle of Bender (sic); a great captain, eloquent, a great man of state, he revived his fatherland and created a new people and a new power in the middle of Arabia. (Napoleon Bonaparte)
The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
Little soldier, little insect You know war it has no heart It will kill you in the sunshine Or happily in the the dark Where kindness is a card game Or a bent up cigarette In the trenches, in the hard rain With a bullet and a bet. View quote
Conor Oberst
...the basic principles of the military services are unchangeable. Courage and candor, obedience and comradeship, love of fatherland and loyalty to the State: these are ever the distinguishing characteristics of the soldier and sailor. Building character through intelligent training and education is always the first and greatest goal. View quote
Erich Raeder
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. View quote
Otto Ohlendorf