Soldier Quotes - Page 17

• The constant education is what keeps me interested. That's what absolutely fascinates me about this job. This week, I'm playing a faerie. Last year, I played a soldier. What am I going to be playing in six months? It's amazing! It's a wonderful job.

  Robert Kazinsky

  Jobs, Years, Six Months

  Source: collider.com

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• Solidarity is the fundamental idea of European cooperation. If a country feels itself to be militarily threatened and calls for soldiers, weapons and sanctions, then that's what it gets. When governments say they need money from the structural funds to stabilize their economy, that's what they get. But you can't cherry pick solidarity.

  Martin Schulz

  Country, Government, Ideas

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• As is well know, I, ah..regard myself as a religious man, yet I belong to no church. I'm an able soldier yet I abhor armies. I can even add that I've been introduced to hundreds of women but never married. in other words no one's ever talked me into anything.

  Charlton Heston

  Religious, Army, Men

  "Fictional character: Gen. Charles 'Chinese' Gordon". "Khartoum", www.imdb.com. 1966.

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• Every good soldier is trained for the battle field. God is prepping you my darlings.

  Tonto Dikeh

  Battle, Fields, Darling

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• Imperialism has now reached a degree of almost scientific perfection. It uses White workers to conquer the non-white workers of The Colonies. Then, it hurls the non-white workers of one colony against those of another non-white colony. Finally, it relies on the Colored workers of the colonies to rule the White workers. Recently, White French soldiers near mutiny in the occupied Ruhr of Germany, were surrounded by French African soldiers, and colored native light-infantry were sent against White German strikers.

  Ho Chi Minh

  White, Light, Perfection

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• The moral difference between a soldier and a civilian is that the soldier accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the body politic of which he is a member. The civilian does not.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Responsibility, Differences, Safety

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• In Defense of the World Order . . . U.S. soldiers would have to kill and die.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Order, Defense, World

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• There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva Convention are subject to the death penalty. And that doesn't mean the soldier that committed them - that means the commanders.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Mean, United States

  Interview with M. Junaid Alam, www.counterpunch.org. December 27, 2004.

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• Step by step, heart to heart, left right left. We all fall down like toy soldiers. Bit by bit, torn apart, we never win.

  Eminem

  Fall, Heart, Winning

  Song: Like Toy Soldiers, 2004

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• The Mongols consumed a steady diet of meat, milk, yogurt, and other dairy products, and they fought men who lived on gruel made from various grains. The grain diet of the peasant warriors stunted their bones, rotted their teeth, and left them weak and prone to disease. In contrast, the poorest Mongol soldier ate mostly protein, thereby giving him strong teeth and bones.

  Jack Weatherford

  Strong, Warrior, Men

  Jack Weatherford (2005). “Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World”, p.87, Broadway Books

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• A smart soldier wants to know the causes of wars. Also how to end them. After all, war is the normal state of affairs, isn't it? Peace is the name of the ideal we deduce from the fact that there have been interludes between wars.

  Jerry Pournelle

  War, Smart, Names

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• A soldier plods and groans, sweats and toils, he growls and curses, and at the end he dies.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Sweat, Toil, Ends

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• [W]hich category of crimes does the State pursue and punish most intensely? [T]hose against private citizens or those against itself? The gravest crimes in the State's lexicon are almost invariably not invasions of private person or property, but dangers to its own contentment, for example, treason, desertion of a soldier to the enemy, failure to register for the draft, subversion and subversive conspiracy, assassination of rulers and such economic crimes against the State as counterfeiting its money or evasion of its income tax.

  Murray Rothbard

  Enemy, Contentment, Example

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• I wouldn't want to play a normal princess who always walks around in nice dresses. I never had a connection to it when I was a child, I preferred playing with plastic soldiers.

  Kristen Stewart

  Children, Nice, Princess

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• I was sometimes jeered by black soldiers who wanted me to sing something besides country music.

  Charley Pride

  Country, Black, Sometimes

  Charley Pride, Jim Henderson (1994). “Pride: the Charley Pride story”, William Morrow & Co

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• The measure of a civilization is in the courage, not of its soldiers, but of its bystanders.

  Jack McDevitt

  Bystanders, Civilization

  Jack McDevitt (2004). “A Talent For War”, p.194, Penguin

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• I had been in that part of the world as a soldier in Korea, so I had been interested in Vietnam.

  Michael Caine

  Korea, Vietnam, World

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• Barack Obama's administration responded to the Haitian crisis within 24 hours. Here comes the soldiers, here comes the food, go go go... Rush Limbaugh told his multi-millions of listeners that Obama only did that to gain favour with black people in America. This is the kind of idiocy that I have to deal with in my country.

  Henry Rollins

  Country, America, People

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• George Zimmerman is a foot soldier in a rapidly privatizing country. He is a new centurion of 21st-century America. Law enforcement is tied down by the strictures of, well, the law. There is only 'so much they can do' to take care of the 'problem.'

  Henry Rollins

  Country, Law, Feet

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• Everyone gives what he has. The soldier gives strength, the merchant goods, the teacher instruction, the farmer rice, the fisherman fish.

  Hermann Hesse

  Teacher, Giving, Fisherman

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.51, Om Books International

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• I was never molested by any person but those who represented the State. I had no lock nor bolt but for the desk which held my papers, not even a nail to put over my latch or windows. I never fastened my door night or day, though I was to be absent several days; not even when the next fall I spent a fortnight in the woods of Maine. And yet my house was more respected than if it had been surrounded by a file of soldiers.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fall, Night, Jail

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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• It sure has been a pleasure for us to broadcast for the sailors and soldiers; besides, its part of the National Defence Program to prepare our boys for anything.

  Bob Hope

  Boys, Sailor, Pleasure

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• Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.

  Dick Gregory

  Jobs, White, America

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• The soldiers kill suicide bombers. Think about that. When a guys whole thing in life is to kill himself and you get there first... you are halling ass my friends.

  Dennis Miller

  Suicide, Thinking, Things In Life

  "Dennis Miller: All In". Comedy, www.imdb.com. January 21, 2006.

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• We've seen the reality of Saddam's regime: his thugs prepared to kill their own people, the parading of prisoners of war and now the release of those pictures of executed British soldiers.

  Tony Blair

  War, Thug, Reality

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