Soldiers Quotes

America without her Soldiers would be like God without His angels.

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.

They fought the enemy, we fight fat living and self-pity. Shine, o shine, unfalsifying sun, on this sick scene.

Military guys are rarely as smart as they think they are, and they've never gotten over the fact that civilians run the military.

An army is a miniature of the society which produces it.

You may hate the war, but never hate the ones that fight. For they do not choose when or where to fight. All they chose was to protect who they love and even the people they don't know.

Good Soldiers don't sacrifice the cause for love - Lucas If the cause isn't love then it isn't worth the sacrifice

Brave soldier, never fear. Even though your death is near.

Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.

No matter what the cause was and wherever it was, Indian governments must never requisition the services of British soldiers to deal with civil disturbances.

I read 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford again every so often.

Come you back, you British soldier; come you back to Mandalay!

We've seen the reality of Saddam's regime: his thugs prepared to kill their own people, the parading of prisoners of war and now the release of those pictures of executed British soldiers.

Like many resisting oppression, Palestinian Gandhis are likely to be found in prisons after being repressed by Israeli soldiers or police or in the hospital after being brutally beaten or worse.

poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you

You can’t get the blood out.

With discipline, you can lose weight, you can excel in work, you can win the war.

Civilians enjoy their time because soldiers sacrifice their time.

All bombing is terrorism.

That’s it. Keep that edge. Fight like there’s no tomorrow.

The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.

You can only die once, to make sure it's worth it.

Trench dirt didn't always wash out, I am sure.

The word is my weapon. FIRE!

And this I know: all these things that now, while we are still in the war, sink down in us like a stone, after the war shall waken again, and then shall begin the disentanglement of life and death.

A man dreams of a miracle and wakes up to loaves of bread.

And be very careful at the front, Paul.”Ah, Mother, Mother! Why do I not take you in my arms and die with you. What poor wretches we are!

Cigarettes are called coffin nails for a reason, Billy Boy, " I remembered telling him. "Be careful with those things. You're risking your life.

… as General Berringer would readily admit, “If you’re in a fair fight, I’ve done something wrong.

Soldiers of capitalism are the fathers of dissent.

They can march for days without eating. They impregnate every schoolgirl they meet.

It's worse for you. You want the guilt to absolve you. Just like you want your wife and child to absolve you. Once absolved, you can kill or take soup.

There's nothing I can do to erase the shadow of misery and despair from the eyes looking back at me from the photos [that I took in Afghanistan].

[On one of his comrades depicted in the book:]"Sasha was my friend … Like me, he was 19. But he didn't come home. He was killed 12 hours after this photo was taken.

This last best luck of all: that earth should gape for me when my great deeds were ended.

we developed a firm, practical feeling of solidarity, which grew, on the battlefield, into the best thing that the war produced - comradeship in arms.

Leaders don't cry for what country can do for them for free. They dream about what they can do for country at high cost.

Life is not for the faint hearted

Nation needs soldiers, politics needs civilians.

There is no way to imagine what it feels like to be shot at. I will never be with him when he is the most scared.

Maybe it's time to stop being a soldier and go home to be a father. And a husband for Deanna. I'm not sure how.

No army is comprised of all the same kinds of units or types of troops. There is power in diversity. If you always see only one choice, or use only one option, you will surely lose more than you win.

All I can think is that it must be a kind of rebellion, To arm your fears like soldiers and slay them.

The brave soldiers die. The cowards survive and write the history.

Gratitude...here at home our faith dwindlespolitical division causes tensions to kindle -we should never forgetwho stands at the door -who shields us with armorand shall forever more...

Hopefully one day Wars will only be fought in movies. And may the best producer win!

Every solider believes in war till the time he actually fights it.

Life is a war. Guerrilla warfare, the strategy

Cadets can neither be treated as schoolboys or soldiers.