My Soldier Quotes - Page 2

• Live for something rather than die for nothing. —George Patton

  Cindy Gerard

  Military, Army Officers, Dies

  Cindy Gerard (2008). “Whisper No Lies”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.

  Jim Butcher

  Bible, Shadow Of Death, Death Of A Loved One

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.997, Penguin

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• I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.

  John Paul Jones

  Life, Fear, Military

  Letter to Le Ray de Chaumont, 16 Nov. 1778

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• Give me enough ribbons to place on the tunics of my soldiers and I can conquer the world.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Conquer The World, Giving, Soldier

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• During 65 years, I have walked the path of duty and discipline... And today, looking back at that long path of service, my soldier's heart stirs and murmurs from deep within: Thank you. Thank you, my homeland.

  Augusto Pinochet

  Thank You, Heart, Years

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• S. E. Smith's I Live in a Hut has a deceptively simple title, considering that the brain in that hut contains galaxies-worth of invention: At night when your soldiers are praying ceaselessly for less rain and more underwear my soldiers make underwear out of rain. These poems seesaw between despair and delight but delight is winning the battle. Smith is a somersaulting tightrope walker of a poet and her poems will make you look at anything and everything with new eyes: For days I tried to rub the new freckle // off my hand until I realized what it was / and began to grant it its sovereignty.

  Matthea Harvey

  Rain, Eye, Simple

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• I do not want to criticize while my soldiers are still bleeding and dying in Iraq.

  Eric Shinseki

  Iraq, Soldier, Dying

  "New Strategy Vindicates Ex-Army Chief Shinseki" by Thom Shanker, www.nytimes.com. January 12, 2007.

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• The moon gives you light, and the bugles and the drums give you music, and my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans, my heart gives you love.

  Walt Whitman

  Heart, Moon, Light

  Walt Whitman (1995). “Civil War Poetry and Prose”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• My son Hannibal will be a great general, because of all my soldiers he best knows how to obey.

  Hamilcar Barca

  Son, Discipline, Soldier

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• Heaven grew weary of the excessive pride and luxury of China... I am from the Barbaric North. I wear the same clothing and eat the same food as the cowherds and horse-herders. We make the same sacrifices and we share.. our riches. I look upon the nation as a new-born child and I care for my soldiers as though they were my brothers.

  Genghis Khan

  Brother, Horse, Children

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• Heaven is weary of the luxury of China. I shall remain in the wilderness of the north. I shall return to simplicity and moderations once again. As for the clothes I wear and the food I eat, I shall have the same as cowherds and grooms and I shall treat my soldiers as brothers. In a hundred battles I have been at the forefront and within seven years I have performed a great work, for in six directions of space all things are subject to one ruler.

  Genghis Khan

  Brother, Luxury, Clothes

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• If it's about the lives of my soldiers at stake, I'd go through hell with a gasoline can.

  Allen West

  Soldier, Gasoline, Hell

  "U.S. officer fined for harsh interrogation tactics". www.cnn.com. December 13, 2003.

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• O God of battles! steel my soldiers’ hearts. Possess them not with fear.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Soldier, Battle

  'Henry V' (1599) act 4, sc. 1, l. [309]

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• Really I think I like who I'm becomin.. There's times where I might do it just to do it like it's nothin. It's times where I might blow like 50k on a vacation for all my soldiers just to see the looks on all their faces, all it took was patience

  Drake

  Real, Blow, Thinking

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• I sincerely believe that I have served a criminal. I led my soldiers in good conscience... but for a criminal government.

  Walter Model

  Believe, Government, Soldier

  "Battle for the Ruhr" by Derek S. Zumbro, (p. 378), 2006.

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• I am involved in the land of a leonine and brave people, where every foot of the ground is like a well of steel, confronting my soldier. You have brought only one son into the world, but everyone in this land can be called an Alexander.

  Alexander the Great

  Son, Land, Feet

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