Robert A. Heinlein Quotes About Soldiers

Quotes about: Soldiers

• The moral difference between a soldier and a civilian is that the soldier accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the body politic of which he is a member. The civilian does not.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Responsibility, Differences, Safety

• Every time we killed a thousand Bugs at a cost of one M.I. it was a net victory for the Bugs. We were learning, expensively, just how efficient a total communism can be when used by a people actually adapted to it by evolution; the Bug commisars didn't care any more about expending soldiers than we cared about expending ammo. Perhaps we could have figured this out about the Bugs by noting the grief the Chinese Hegemony gave the Russo-Anglo-American Alliance; however the trouble with 'lessons from history' is that we usually read them best after falling flat on our chins.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Grief, Fall, People

• There were many, many times thereafter that Don regretted having enlisted - but so has every man who ever volunteered for military service.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Military, Men, Soldier

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