Soldier Quotations

We have arrived at that point of time in which we are forced to see our own humiliation, as a nation, and that a progression in this line cannot be a productive of happiness, private or public.

Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.

Honest honey, I feel like crying every time I sit down to write you a letter... I am so unlucky.

We're trying to create people that are going to change the world.

I don't think we should tell them what we're going to do in advance. Let them think. Worry. Wonder. Uncertainty is the most chilling thing of all.

All kids, when they go to school, are pretty good artists and dancers and singers and poets. All that gets buried, basically through being educated, or brainwashed.

Nothing can stop the attack of aircraft except other aircraft.

We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

One doesn't become a soldier in a week - it takes training, study and discipline. There is no question that the finest Army in the world is found in the United States.

That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it.

You know you haven't stopped talking since I came here? You must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle!

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.

Men wholly bent on wordly treasures were the dupes of their own passions, rather than deceived by the writings or pretenses of those who claimed to be Alchemists.

The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage.

To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.

When I introduced a black soldier, Lt. Flap, in 1971, the Stars and Stripes banned the strip. They were having racial problems and thought it would increase the tensions.

A lot of child soldiers lose their minds.

Americans, particularly after World War II, tended to romanticize war because in World War II our cause was the cause of humanity, and our soldiers brought home glory and victory, and thank God that they did. But it led us to romanticize it to some extent.

Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done.

To be a soldier one needs that special gene, that extra something, that enables a person to jump into one on one combat, something, after all, that is unimaginable to most of us, as we are simply not brave enough.

The spring of 1942 was given over to a very impassioned, strategic debate about where we should first attack in counterpunching against the Germans and Italians. The British argued very persuasively on the part of Winston Churchill, prime minister, that this was a very green American Army, green soldiers, green commanders.

Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier.

Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender.

Every American soldier wants as much public support as he can possibly have. That's the soldiers on duty in Iraq, and that's me, as well. We fight better knowing that our people back home support us, back us, and understand what we're doing. It's hugely important.

'The Dictator' lands somewhere between wan Mel Brooks and good Adam Sandler, whose 'You Don't Mess With the Zohan,' about an Israeli Special Forces soldier at a hair salon, manages to strike better contrasts with vaguely similar culture differences - it's a nuttier movie, too.

By the time we reached Virginia City I was considered a remarkable good shot and a fearless rider for a girl of my age.

The biggest impact I can have for what I want to do, the results I want to have with what God's given me, is to help as many people as possible get to heaven.

My friends and neighbors were always fixing their cars. Soldiers who felt restless wanted to work on something, and they understood cars. Me, I like to look at cars but I was never really a mechanic.

You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening.

So the idea that you could put Kurds, Shiite Arabs, and Sunni Arabs in a nice, liberal, federal system in Iraq in a short amount of time, six months or a year, boggles the mind.

We're all kind of basically involved in the same thing, putting up a blank of some kind and filling it in.

With us air people, the future of our nation is indissolubly bound up in the development of air power.

If the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government.

If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting.

Don't look now but there's one man too many in this room and I think it's you!

I was sick. I guess I was about to crack up thinking about all my good buddies. They were better men than me and they're not coming back. Much less back to the White House, like me.

When we know as much about people as hog specialists know about hogs, we'll be better off.

Mounting a large rock, I was able to see a considerable body of the enemy moving by the flank in rear of their line engaged, and passing from the direction of the foot of Great Round Top through the valley toward the front of my left.

I therefore beg that you would indulge me with the liberty of declining the arduous trust.

I appeal to you as a soldier to spare me the humiliation of seeing my regiment march to meet the enemy and I not share its dangers.

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

Waitresses, soldiers, rickshaw drivers, old ladies selling vegetables - my father would schmooze anybody. He was Clintonesque before the word existed. And, of course, it paid dividends. Ill-tempered guards at the most notorious border crossings waved him through with cheery smiles. Haughty maitre d's fawned over him.

I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers.

The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag.

I want to be a soldier as my father was.

I'm still a soldier, fighting with my pen and paper for peace till the day I cease.

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

My first soldier role was in 'Flags of Our Fathers.' Casting director Jay Binder saw that movie and was looking for soldiers for 'Journey's End,' which led to 'Generation Kill.'

So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable.

John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection.

If you're going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy; God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.

In a few days an officer came to our camp, under a flag of truce, and informed Hamilton, then a captain of artillery, but afterwards the aid of General Washington, that Captain Hale had been arrested within the British lines condemned as a spy, and executed that morning.

There will be masses available all day long. Confession available all day long.

I am also deeply concerned with the widespread, often undiagnosed, incidents of PTSD and the alarming suicide rates amongst our returning soldiers.

A true woman always loves a real soldier.

We've already seen proliferation. We started it with Britain, then France. Then we benignly let the Israelis do it. The Pakistanis and the Indians have recently done it. The Chinese have nuclear weapons.

The hooks didn't roll out any more sevens than my hands did before them.

I'm just a landscape painter. I look out the window and I see what's going on, and I paint it. While I'm painting it, I also write thoughts about what I see going on out there.

I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat?

I'll see you at the theater tonight. I'll hold your seat til you get there. After that you're on your own.

The military is a very cool world to write about. I went down to Ft. Benning, Ga., for military training, and I learned a lot about soldiers and officers and why they joined up and what their life has been like.

The soldiers that didn't come back were the heroes. It's a roll of the dice. If a bullet has your name on it, you're a hero. If you hear a bullet go by, you're a survivor.

Patton was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn't like that attitude.

The intolerance of the Middle, and even later, Ages, is a fact all too familiar to every one.

Every pioneer and musician who could carry a musket went into the ranks. Even the sick and foot-sore, who could not keep up in the march, came up as soon as they could find their regiments, and took their places in line of battle, while it was battle, indeed.

I went overseas hoping to prove that all our POWs were home. I came back convinced that they were still alive.

Now the true soldiers of Christ must always be prepared to do battle for the truth, and must never, so far as lies with them, allow false convictions to creep in.

I suppose that Heartland, Unknown Soldier and Pride and Joy represent not a quieter side but more of a serious side to my work, something I've been getting into recently.

Soldiers and peasants lived together on friendly terms; they knew each other and their everyday routines, and trusted each other; they shook their heads together over the war.

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

Consideration of any kind are a crime against the German people and the soldier at the front.

Well, the reports are correct that we're conducting very robust military operations on the Afghan side of the border in areas where we think al-Qaida is operating and Taliban remnants are.

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

In should be the duty of every soldier to reflect on the experiences of the past, in the endeavor to discover improvements, in his particular sphere of action, which are practicable in the immediate future.

Benteen, come on, big village, be quick. Bring packs.

Here I am in my first command - a bit dazed but feeling very grand.

I think we have played like a playoff team for some time. We can still do better. The key thing right now is to look forward, not behind you.

God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at least they prevent us from being frightened by them.

When eating an elephant take one bite at a time.

I'm the last guy left. That's what happens when you live to 84.

It's like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There's all these languages and possibilities and concepts to speak or communicate with.

I've got a good mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it!

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

They should hold themselves absolutely upon the immovable foundation of truth and nature, whereby alone they can save themselves from misapprehensions and from the danger of being entirely carried away from reality into mere dreams and fictions.

The House of Commons, refused to receive the addresses of the colonies, when the matter was pending; besides, we hold our rights neither from them nor from the Lords.

You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily.

India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.

The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.

Any child soldier has to go through a lot of love, care and understanding to become normal.

Moreover, broad plans commensurate with our national purpose and resources would bring conviction of our power to every soldier in the front line, to the nations associated with us in the war, and to the enemy.

As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.

No one hates war like a soldier hates war.

Money is the sovereign queen of all delights - for her, the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights.

Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost.

Your purpose, then, plainly stated, is, that you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between you and us.

Among various demands and charges I gave them, was, that the said flag should be delivered to me, and one of the United States' flags be received and hoisted in its place.

One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.

The only luck I had in my life was when I married you. I knew it wouldn't last because I was too happy. I knew they would not let me be happy.

And Oliver North was really a good soldier, up to the last moment, shoving memos into the shredder and defending the policy to the end.