Soldier Quotes

• 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

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• No soldier ever really survives a war.

  Audie Murphy

  War

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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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  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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• Only the soldier is a free man, because he can look death in the face.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Men, Looks, Faces

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• A soldier never dies. His blood makes the grass green for his children.

  Carol Berg

  Children, Blood, Green

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• Good soldiers are defined by what they can endure, not by what they can inflict.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Shantaram, Endure, Defined

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.525, Macmillan

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• A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Inspiring, Veterans Day

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.151, Anchor

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• It is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag, who gives that protester the freedom to abuse and burn that flag.

  Zell Miller

  Giving, Abuse, Coffins

  Zell Miller's Speech at the Republican National Convention in New York City, New York, www.cbsnews.com. September 1, 2004.

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• A breath of our inspiration
  Is the life of each generation;
  A wondrous thing of our dreaming
  Unearthly, impossible seeming —
  The soldier, the king, and the peasant
  Are working together in one,
  Till our dream shall become their present,
  And their work in the world be done.

  Arthur O'Shaughnessy

  Dream, Kings, Inspiration

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• A preacher must be both soldier and shepherd. He must nourish, defend, and teach; he must have teeth in his mouth, and be able to bite and fight.

  Martin Luther

  Fighting, Shepherds, Teeth

  Martin Luther (1818). “The familiar discourses of dr. Martin Luther, tr. by H. Bell”, p.241

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• The preservation of freedom, is not the task of soldiers alone. The whole nation has to be strong.

  Lal Bahadur Shastri

  Strong, Tasks, Preservation

  Lal Bahadur Shastri (1974). “Selected Speeches of Lal Bahadur Shastri: June 11, 1964 to January 10, 1966”

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  On the battlefield, the military pledges to leave no soldier behind. As a nation, let it be our pledge that when they return home, we leave no veteran behind.

  Dan Lipinski

  Veterans Day, Military, Home

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• No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.

  John Ruskin

  Teacher, Money, Artist

  John Ruskin (1868). “pt. VI: Of leaf beauty. pt. VII: Of cloud beauty. pts. VIII-IX: Of ideas of relation”, p.363

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• Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Life, Courage

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• A warrior with a cause is the most dangerous soldier of all

  Michael Scott

  Warrior, Causes, Dangerous

  Michael Scott (2012). “The Enchantress”, p.301, Random House

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• The hardest thing of all for a soldier is to retreat.

  Duke of Wellington

  Military, War, Retreat

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• The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men.

  Minot Judson Savage

  Uplifting, Death, Memorial Day

  Minot Judson Savage (1884). “Poems of modern thought”

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• No one hates war like a soldier hates war.

  Tommy Franks

  Hate, War

  "A modern major general" by Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2002.

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  The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

  George S. Patton

  Country, Military, War

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I know a thousand things louder than a soldier's gun; I know the heartbeat of his mother.

  Andrea Gibson

  Mother, Heart, Gun

  Andrea Gibson (Poet) (2013). “Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns”, p.11, SCB Distributors

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

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Determination, Endurance, Firsts

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• Ambition, the soldier's virtue.

  William Shakespeare

  Military, Ambition, Virtue

  William Shakespeare, David Bevington (1990). “Antony and Cleopatra”, p.153, Cambridge University Press

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• Blacks, soldiers, and Jews are a menace to the race.

  Margaret Sanger

  Race, Menace, Jew

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• A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Art, Men, Way

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