Soldier Quotes

In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.

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.

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.

I know that I'm already in the history books and that people are going to remember me as the prisoner of war and the fabricated stories, but you know, to me I was just another soldier over there doing my job.

I don't imagine Heads of Government would ever be able to say I'm not an economist therefore I can't take decisions on matters of the economy; I'm not a soldier I can't take decisions on matters of defence; I'm not an educationist so I can't take decisions about education.

A true woman always loves a real soldier.

The De Bernieres were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier.

Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?

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

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.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

The glory of the old Irish nation, which in our hour will grow young and strong again. Should we fail, the country will not be worth more than it is now. The sword of famine is less sparing than the bayonet of the soldier.

Like the old soldier of the 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 light to see that duty. Goodbye.

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.

I had repeatedly made written requests to the Fuehrer that I might be allowed to join the Wehrmacht as an ordinary soldier. He refused to give me this permission.

Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.

I, Philip Kearny, an old soldier, enter my solemn protest against this order for retreat.

The weapon of the advocate is the sword of the soldier, not the dagger of the assassin.

But to the fighting soldier that phase of the war is behind. It was left behind after his first battle. His blood is up. He is fighting for his life, and killing now for him is as much a profession as writing is for me.

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

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.

There's something about an American soldier you can't explain. They're so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them.

More than half the combat deaths in Vietnam occurred after Richard Nixon was elected on a promise to bring the war to an end, and after the American people had already decided that they did not want one more soldier to die in Vietnam.

Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.

There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either.

No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or an unmanned airplane.

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.

Sharpe is my favorite role of all that I've played. He's a very complex character. He knows that he's a good soldier, but he will always have to fight the prejudice of aristocratic officers because of his rough working-class upbringing. On the battlefield, he's full of confidence - but off it, he is unsure, a bit shy and ill at ease.