Soldier Quotes - Page 13

• The US Army has announced that although it is true they performed mind-destroying drug tests on hundreds of soldiers in the 1960s, none of the victims have been promoted beyond the rank of lieutenant colonel.

  George Carlin

  Army, Drug, Mind

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Ideas, Unnecessary, My Favorite

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• ...commerce, which is mistakenly classified among the productive forms of work, ought to be ranked first among the parasitical professions like those of monk, soldier, lawyer etc.

  Charles Fourier

  Firsts, Etc, Lawyer

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• When German soldiers used to come to my studio and look at my pictures of Guernica, they'd ask 'Did you do this?'. And I'd say, 'No, you did.'

  Pablo Picasso

  Looks, Guernica, Used

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• A critic is a soldier that fires on his own men.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Men, Fire, Critics

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• No more than a famous master can be replaced and another take over the completion of the half-finished painting he has left behind can the great poet and thinker, the great statesman and the great soldier, be replaced. For their activity lies always in the province of art. It is not mechanically trained but inborn by God's grace.

  Adolf Hitler

  Art, Lying, Grace

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• There is an undeniable economic and cultural disconnect between many of those who volunteer to serve and those who choose to remain civilians. But what is more concerning to me is the disconnect between our political leadership that applauds our soldiers and veterans, but then won't provide funding to properly armored vehicles or health care when our servicemen and women come home. You can't send men and women to war without being prepared to take care of them abroad and give them the services they need when they return home.

  Ruben Gallego

  War, Home, Men

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• The extreme self-sacrifice characteristic of group-selected species such as ants and bees can often be found among soldiers.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Sacrifice, Often Is, Self

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• The soldier, above all other men, is required to perform the highest act of religious offering-sacrifice. In battle and in the face of danger and death he discloses those divine attributes which his amke gave when he created in his own image. No physical courage and no brute instincts can take the place of the divine annunciation and spiritual gift which will alone sustain him.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Spiritual, Religious, Sacrifice

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• The soldier's body becomes a stock of accessories that are not his property.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Accessories, Body, Property

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• I always compare young missioners to the kids who naively signed up to go to Iraq to fight terrorism. They are just the foot soldiers in the spiritual war that Mike Bickle and Lou Engle are waging against what they consider sin. They will say it is biblical truth, but the Bible says many things, and you don't see anyone saying that slavery is okay or that we should not eat shellfish. Why the fascination with sex?

  Roger Ross Williams

  Spiritual, Sex, War

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• Such professions as the soldier and the lawyer ... give ample opportunity for crimes but not much for mere illusions. ... If you have lost a battle you cannot believe you have won it; if your client is hanged you cannot pretend that you have gotten him off.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Believe, Opportunity, Giving

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• Now nothing can be more important than that the work of a soldier should be well done.

  Plato

  Important, Done, Should

  Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.256, Xist Publishing

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• The spring of 1942 was given over to a very impassioned, strategic debate about where we should first attack in counterpunching against the Germans and Italians. The British argued very persuasively on the part of Winston Churchill, prime minister, that this was a very green American Army, green soldiers, green commanders.

  Rick Atkinson

  Spring, Army, Green

  "Military Historian Writes Of Wars Past And Present". Interview with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. July 1, 2010.

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• I think matching up Vietnam vets with these Iraqi vets would be a really great thing. When soldiers say only other soldiers can understand, that's what they're talking about: what it means to kill.

  Nina Berman

  Mean, Thinking, Talking

  "Purple Hearts: Back from Iraq". Interview with Tucker Foehl, www.motherjones.com. October 28, 2004.

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• As a minister, I would rather be criticized for thoroughly weighing the options, and sometimes even voicing my doubts, than to be reproached for recklessly sending German soldiers into combat.

  Guido Westerwelle

  Doubt, Sometimes, Ministers

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• One should never send soldiers on a mission based on just good will and good intent. Unfortunately, that can mean one has to stand by and watch human rights abuses take place.

  Thomas de Maiziere

  Mean, Rights, Abuse

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It is painful to talk about it, but even with its 110,000 elite soldiers, the Soviet Union never managed to gain control over the entire Afghan territory.

  Sergei Ivanov

  Unions, Territory, Gains

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• Armies are a purely human invention. Most soldiers who go to war nowadays don't even do it because they're inherently aggressive.

  Frans de Waal

  War, Army, Invention

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Sometimes the enormity of war overwhelms the truth that all great struggles are just the sum of individual stories. Each is more than just the story of one soldier's service and sacrifice. Their service ripples across their families, friends and their communities. Memorial Day reminds us it is the noble sacrifice of many that makes us who we are.

  James Carafano

  Memorial Day, War, Struggle

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• the Sanctuary was reserved for the rich and elite--those with fortunes, not soldiers of fortune.

  Drew Karpyshyn

  Sanctuary, Rich, Fortune

  Drew Karpyshyn (2007). “Mass Effect: Revelation”, p.140, Del Rey

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• I'm just glad we live in a world where girls can play soldiers.

  Taylor Swift

  Girl, Play, World

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• I was really sad after 'The Avengers' when I realized I was not going to have a part in 'Thor 2' or 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier.' But I'm not arguing with my fantastic plane and my really cool car.

  Clark Gregg

  Winter, America, Car

  "‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D’: Clark Gregg on Marvel, Joss Whedon mind meld". Hero Complex interview, herocomplex.latimes.com. September 24, 2013.

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• My first soldier role was in 'Flags of Our Fathers.' Casting director Jay Binder saw that movie and was looking for soldiers for 'Journey's End,' which led to 'Generation Kill.'

  Stark Sands

  Father, Journey, Saws

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

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• But even as the fear racks my body, it soothes me, comforts me. Soldiers who get washed away in a rush of adrenaline don't survive. In war, fear is the woman your mother warned you about. You knew she was no good for you, but you couldn't shake her. You had to find a way to get along, because she wasn't going anywhere.

  Hiroshi Sakurazaka

  Mother, War, Comfort

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