Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes About Soldiers

• The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Life, Hate, Passion

• They hate kings, they hate priests, they hate soldiers, they hate sailors. They distrust men of science, they denounce the middle classes, they despair of working men, but they adore humanity. Only they always speak of humanity as if it were a curious foreign nation. They are dividing themselves more and more from men to exalt the strange race of mankind. They are ceasing to be human in the effort to be humane.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Kings, Hate, Men

• Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely and systematically that might is not right. The fact is obvious. The might is in the hundred men who obey. The right (or what is held to be right) is in the one man who commands them.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Military, Army, Men

• The professional soldier gains more and more power as the general courage of a community declines.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Courage, Community, Soldier

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

• Such professions as the soldier and the lawyer ... give ample opportunity for crimes but not much for mere illusions. ... If you have lost a battle you cannot believe you have won it; if your client is hanged you cannot pretend that you have gotten him off.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Believe, Opportunity, Giving

• There must be some good in the life of battle, for so many good men have enjoyed being soldiers.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Soldier, Good Man

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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