Soldier Quotes

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

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.

It is made the duty of every Commanding Officer in the Department, to arrest and send to these Headquarters, under guard, every officer or soldier who may be found absent from his command, without the regular leave in writing, prescribed by Regulations and General Orders.

In World War II in Germany, we had a ration for one U.S. soldier, or one allied soldier for every twenty inhabitants. The ratio in Iraq is about one for a hundred and sixty.

When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got to be perfectly at home in men's clothes.

It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier.

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth.

No American soldier should be allowed to set foot on Iranian soil, regardless of the criticism we have of the Iranian government.

It takes a real soldier to stay in the music industry and live off the things that have been put before me and be able to survive all this time because it has not been easy.

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.

I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier.

It's hard for me to imagine that some people in the CIA who had firsthand knowledge would be unable to recognize that this would be helpful information for a soldier's death.

There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.

Every lover is a soldier.

I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.

Being a soldier, fighting for this country, is neither Republican nor Democrat.

Doolittle looked just like a little toy soldier the first time I ever saw him.

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

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

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

My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier.

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.

The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian.

I don't think I could be a foot soldier. I don't know if I could take orders too good. I'm a little lazy.

Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier.

The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort.

The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.

It seems as if everybody in the country was getting impatient to get his or her particular soldier out of the Army and to upset the carefully arranged system of points for retirement which we had arranged with the approval of the Army itself.

I would have been a disastrous soldier.