Good Soldiers Quotes - Page 2

• The sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  War, Soldier, Gold

  "Should We Spill Blood Over Oil?" by Laurence W. Beilenson, Kevin Lynch, reason.com. February 1982.

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

  William Lyon Mackenzie King

  Self, Discipline, Soldier

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• In order to be a good soldier it is necessary to know how to dance.

  Plato

  Dance, Order, Dancing

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

  Ned Beauman

  Soldier

  "Ned Beauman: 'What sticks in my mind is praise from the wrong people'". Interview with Gemma Kappala-Ramsamy, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 2012.

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• The colored man has been accustomed all his life to lean on the white man, and if a good officer is placed over him, he will learn readily and make a good soldier.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  War, Men, White Man

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• My books have been part of my life forever. They have been good soldiers, boon companions. Every book has survived numerous purges over the years; each book has repeatedly been called onto the carpet and asked to explain itself. I own no book that has not fought the good fight, taken on all comers, and earned the right to remain. If a book is there, it is there for a reason.

  Joe Queenan

  Book, Taken, Fighting

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• Man is full of desires: he loves only those who can satisfy them all. "This man is a good mathematician," someone will say. But I have no concern for mathematics; he would take me for a proposition. "That one is a good soldier." He would take me for a besieged town. I need, that is to say, a decent man who can accommodate himself to all my desires in a general sort of way.

  Blaise Pascal

  Love, Math, Men

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• I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.... Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and if you let that bother you, you're not a good soldier.

  Curtis LeMay

  Military, War, Thinking

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• He who neither drinks, nor smokes, nor dances, he who preaches & even occasionally practice piety, temperance and celibacy, is generally a saint, or a mahatma or more likely a humbug but he certainly won't make a leader or for that matter a good soldier

  Sam Manekshaw

  Leadership, Dance, Drinking

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• Let it be your pride to show all men everywhere not only what good soldiers you are, but also what good men you are.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Military, Pride, Men

  Woodrow Wilson (1918). “State Papers and Addresses”

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• Gold will not always get you good soldiers, but good soldiers can get you gold.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Political, Soldier, Gold

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• If slaves will make good soldiers, then our whole theory of slavery is wrong.

  Howell Cobb

  War, Soldier, Slavery

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• The sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers; for gold alone will not procure good soldiers, but good soldiers will always procure gold.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  War, Soldier, Gold

  "Should We Spill Blood Over Oil?" by Laurence W. Beilenson, Kevin Lynch, reason.com. February 1982.

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• Every good soldier is trained for the battle field. God is prepping you my darlings.

  Tonto Dikeh

  Soldier, Battle, Fields

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• I have never on the field of battle sent you where I was unwilling to go myself, nor would I now advise you to a course which I felt myself unwilling to pursue. You have been good soldiers. You can be good citizens. Obey the laws, preserve your honor, and the government to which you have surrendered can afford to be and will be magnanimous.

  Nathan Bedford Forrest

  War, Law, Government

  "Farewell address". May 9, 1865.

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• A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy's guts, he comes.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Art, Philosophy, Order

  Bertolt Brecht (1983). “Two Plays by Bertolt Brecht”, Plume Books

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• I am more anxious than I can express that my men should be not only good soldiers of their country, but also good soldiers of the cross.

  Stonewall Jackson

  Country, War, Men

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• A good soldier is a blind, heartless, soulless, murderous machine. He is not a man. His is not a brute, for brutes kill only in self defense. All that is human in him, all that is divine in him, all that constitutes the man has been sworn away when he took the enlistment roll. His mind, his conscience, aye, his very soul, are in the keeping of his officer. No man can fall lower than a soldier-it is a depth beneath which we cannot go.

  Jack London

  War, Fall, Men

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• That's what's wrong with the country. There are too many 'good soldiers' accepting too many bad decisions.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Country, Decision, Soldier

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