Soldier Quotes - Page 16

• Often times the best military leaders were soldiers.

  Jim Caviezel

  Military, Leader, Best Military

  "Jim Caviezel Talks WHEN THE GAME STANDS TALL, His Passion For Filmmaking and Why He'll Never Direct An Episode Of PERSON OF INTEREST". Interview with Tommy Cook, collider.com. August 21, 2014.

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• Policeman are soldiers who act alone; soldiers are policeman who act in unison.

  Herbert Spencer

  Unison, Policemen

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• Which is heavier: a soldier's pack or a slave's chains?

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Slave, Chains, Packs

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• The first half of Vietnam was fought to win the war, and the second half of Vietnam was soldiers going haywire without a mission, getting further and further towards our friend, Captain Kurtz and our friends at 'Apocalypse Now.'

  Dylan Ratigan

  War, Winning, Vietnam

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• The unwilling soldier will do anything to fight for a useless fabric piece of ribbon.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Fighting, Fabric, Pieces

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• Put together a seaman, soldier and airman and what do you get? The sum of all fears.

  Winston Churchill

  Together, Airmen, Seamen

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• Law enforcement officers should use only the minimum force necessary in dealing with disorders when they arise. A human life-the life of a student, soldier, or police officer-is a precious thing, and the taking of a life can be justified only as a necessary and last resort.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Law, Police, Use

  Nixon, Richard M. (1971). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1970”, p.1117, Best Books on

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• Private Manning is the world's pre-eminent prisoner of conscience, having remained true to the Nuremberg principle that every soldier has the right to 'a moral choice.' His suffering mocks the notion of the land of the free.

  John Pilger

  Land, Choices, Suffering

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• Readiness is the best way of truly taking care of soldiers.

  Richard A. Kidd

  Care, Way, Readiness

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• A good soldier, whether he leads a platoon or an army, is expected to look backward as well as forward; but he must think only forward.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Army, Thinking, Looks

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• You cannot prevent a major catastrophe, but you can build an organization that is battle-ready, where people trust one another. In military training, the first rule is to instill soldiers with trust in their officers - because without trust, they won't fight.

  Peter Drucker

  Military, Fighting, Organization

  Peter F. Drucker (2010). “Managing the Non-Profit Organization: Principles and Practices”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• I actually think it is people like myself who have been fighting for our rights to free speech and I would like the right to defend my own right to free speech, not have soldiers doing it for me. I don't think I need soldiers.

  Medea Benjamin

  Fighting, Thinking, Rights

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• The soldier, above all other men, is required to practice the greatest act of religious training - sacrifice.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Religious, Sacrifice, Men

  Sylvanus Thayer Award Acceptance Address, delivered 12 May 1962, West Point, NY

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• [I]t's impossible to evade the fact that Endless War will inevitably degrade the citizenry of the country that engages in it. A country which venerates its military above all other institutions, which demands that its soldiers be spoken of only with religious-like worship, and which continuously indoctrinates its population to believe that endless violence against numerous countries is necessary and just - all by instilling intense fear of the minorities who are the target of that endless violence - will be a country filled with citizens convinced of the virtues and nobility of aggression.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Country, Religious, Military

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• It is impossible to be a true soldier of Jesus Christ and not fight.

  John Gresham Machen

  Jesus, Fighting, Impossible

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• The principle is this: We must not allow anything into our life that feeds our point of weakness. A soldier doesn't dance through a mind field any more than we should play with a hand grenade. When the enemy's entry points are boarded up, it frees us to hear clearly the voice of our Commander.

  Eric Ludy

  Hands, Play, Voice

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• The progress of manufactures and commerce insensibly collects a large multitude within the walls of a city: but these citizens are no longer soldiers; and the arts which adorn and improve the state of civil society, corrupt the habits of the military life.

  Edward Gibbon

  Art, Wall, Military

  Edward Gibbon (2016). “The Collected Works of Edward Gibbon: Historical Works, Autobiographical Writings and Private Letters, Including The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.1212, e-artnow

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• [A] military force was collected in Europe, formidable by their arms and numbers, if the generals had understood the science of command, and the soldiers the duty of obedience.

  Edward Gibbon

  Military, Numbers, Europe

  Edward Gibbon, William Smith (1857). “The Student's Gibbon: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.252

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• The patient and active virtues of a soldier are insensibly nursed in the habits and discipline of a pastoral life.

  Edward Gibbon

  Discipline, Patient, Virtue

  Edward Gibbon (2013). “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: The Modern Library Collection (Complete and Unabridged)”, p.894, Modern Library

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• To maintain the harmony of authority and obedience, to chastise the proud, to protect the weak, to reward the deserving, to banish vice and idleness from his dominions, to secure the traveller and merchant, to restrain the depredations of the soldier, to cherish the labors of the husbandman, to encourage industry and learning, and, by an equal and moderate assessment, to increase the revenue, without increasing the taxes, are indeed the duties of a prince . . .

  Edward Gibbon

  Assessment, Proud, Rewards

  Edward Gibbon (2016). “THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages”, p.3284, e-artnow

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• There must be some good in the life of battle, for so many good men have enjoyed being soldiers.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Good Man, Battle

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• I have given instructions that I be informed everytime one of our soldiers is killed, even if it is in themiddle of the night. When President Nasser leavesinstructions that he is to be awakened in the middleof the night if an Egyptian soldier is killed, there willbe peace.

  Golda Meir

  Night, President, Egyptian

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• We were required to predict a soldier's performance in officer training and in combat, but we did so by evaluating his behavior over one hour in an artificial situation. This was a perfect instance of a general rule that I call WYSIATI, "What you see is all there is." We had made up a story from the little we knew but had no way to allow for what we did not know about the individual's future, which was almost everything that would actually matter. When you know as little as we did, you should not make extreme predictions like "He will be a star."

  Daniel Kahneman

  Stars, Perfect, Training

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• You look at any war zone and you talk to any soldiers and they have to blank out - in order for that to work for them, in order for them to survive they have to blank out something in themselves in order to do it.

  David Morrissey

  War, Order, Looks

  Source: collider.com

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• I've played a super soldier, a doctor, a World War II fighter pilot, a professional footballer, and a meth-dealing junkie. All those things allow you to educate yourself about different worlds that you have to get familiar with.

  Robert Kazinsky

  War, Doctors, Different

  Source: collider.com

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