Old Soldiers Quotes

• Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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  I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.

  George S. Patton

  Motivational, Military, War

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• Old soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Reality, Soldier, Brain

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• Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Veterans Day, Peace, Military

  Address to joint meeting of Congress, 19 Apr. 1951

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• A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Military, War, Fighting

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• You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear, as young as your hope, as old as your despair.

  Samuel Ullman

  Birthday, Confidence, Self

  "The Silver Treasury, Prose and Verse for Every Mood" by Jane Manner, (p. 323-24), 1934.

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• The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Determination, Soldier, Endurance

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• Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Goodbye, Military, Light

  1951 Address to Congress after being relieved of his duty by President Truman, 19 Apr.

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  The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Peace, Military, War

  "Duty, Honor, Country: A Pictorial Autobiography".

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• It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.

  Zell Miller

  Veterans Day, Military, Army

  2004 Republican National Convention Address, delivered 1 September 2004, Madison Square Garden, New York

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• The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.

  William Westmoreland

  Peace, Fear, Military

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I will never joke about old soldiers who try to get to reunions to talk over the war again. To talk of old times with old friends is the greatest thing in the world.

  Will Rogers

  War, Old Friends, Soldier

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out.

  John Lennon

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  John Lennon, Yōko Ono, David Sheff, G. Barry Golson (1981). “The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono”, Putnam Pub Group

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• The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.

  Wilfred Owen

  War, Lying, Latin

  "Dulce et Decorum Est" l. 21 (written 1918) See Horace 20

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• The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Life, Courage, Struggle

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• Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.

  Euripides

  War, Soldier, Funny Leadership

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• People who have escaped from poverty are like old soldiers. In later years they recount the little, amusing incidents that happened infrequently, and conveniently forget the long, unrelieved stretches of misery and boredom.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Years, Long, People

  Elsa Maxwell (1954). “R.S.V.P.: Elsa Maxwell's Own Story”

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• 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.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Military, War, Mean

  Speech in London. "Memorial Life of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant". Book edited by y Stephen Merrill Allen, p. 95, 1889.

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• Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burn brightest, old linen wash whitest? Old soldiers, sweethearts, are surest, and old lovers are soundest.

  John Webster

  Wine, Soldier, Vineyards

  'Westward Hoe' (1607) act 2, sc. 2

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• You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt, as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear.

  Paul H. Dunn

  Self Confidence, Wrinkles, Inspirational Birthday

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• The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point?but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Soldier, West, World

  1951 Address to Congress after being relieved of his duty by President Truman,19 Apr.

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• That's a nice song,' said young Sam, and Vimes remembered that he was hearing it for the first time. It's an old soldiers' song,' he said. Really, sarge? But it's about angels.' Yes, thought Vimes, and it's amazing what bits those angels cause to rise up as the song progresses. It's a real soldiers' song: sentimental, with dirty bits. As I recall, they used to sing it after battles,’ he said. 'I've seen old men cry when they sing it,’ he added. Why? It sounds cheerful.' They were remembering who they were not singing it with, thought Vimes. You'll learn. I know you will.

  Terry Pratchett

  Song, Real, Nice

  Terry Pratchett (2002). “Night watch”, Doubleday UK

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• Keep unscathed the good name; keep out of peril the honor without which even your battered old soldier who is hobbling into his grave on half-pay and a wooden leg would not change with Achilles.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Names, Soldier, Honor

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• I, Philip Kearny, an old soldier, enter my solemn protest against this order for retreat.

  Philip Kearny

  Order, Soldier, Retreat

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• As an old soldier, I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Justice, Soldier, Littles

  'Man and Superman' (1903) act 3

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