Soldier Quotes - Page 18

• They fled. The American louts fled. Indeed, concerning the fighting waged by the heroes of the Arab Socialist Baath Party yesterday, one amazing thing really is the cowardice of the American soldiers. we had not anticipated this.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Party, Hero, Fighting

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• By 1973, John Kerry had already accused American soldiers of committing war crimes in Vietnam, thrown someone else's medals to the ground in an anti-war demonstration, and married his first heiress.

  Ann Coulter

  War, Vietnam, Firsts

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• There are all kinds of atrocities, and I would have to say that, yes, yes, I committed the same kind of atrocities as thousands of other soldiers have committed in that I took part in shootings in free fire zones. I conducted harassment and interdiction fire.

  John F. Kerry

  Fire, Atrocities, Shooting

  John F. Kerry's testimony before subcommittees of the U.S. Senate (April 18, 1971), as quoted on "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. April 18, 2004.

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• In should be the duty of every soldier to reflect on the experiences of the past, in the endeavor to discover improvements, in his particular sphere of action, which are practicable in the immediate future.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Past, Spheres, Action

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• It's this patronizing thing that people have about if you're against the war everyone's lumped together. You know, the soldiers are not scholars, they're not war experts.

  Richard Belzer

  War, People, Together

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

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• It is soldiers who pay most of the human cost. In war it is extraordinary how it all comes down to the character of one man.

  Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.

  War, Character, Men

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• ... I think it is fair to say that all war photographers hide behind their cameras. I hid behind mine for years and years and years. It was a shield... I think that the photographer in combat has a greater protection than the soldier who has a rifle in his hand. That camera has unbelievable protective power.

  Carl Mydans

  War, Thinking, Hands

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• I would say that what's been mobilized to this point - something on the order of several hundred thousand soldiers are probably, you know, a figure that would be required.

  Eric Shinseki

  Order, Would Be, Hundred

  "Vets Affairs Pick Known For Contradicting Rumsfeld". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. January 13, 2009.

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• A church should be a camp of soldiers, not an hospital of invalids. But there is exceedingly much difference between what ought be and what is, and consequently many of God's people are in so sad a state that the very fittest prayer for them is for revival.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Differences, People

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• You know a constellation of imperishable values. Live by the mighty truth and power of God. Live above the sludge of a sick society. Live among dispirited humans as the vanguard of peace and good news. Remember, our Commander in Chief has no use for tin soldiers.

  Carl F. H. Henry

  Sick, Tin, News

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• Contrasting British servicemen and women with the appeasers, it is hard not to laugh. Are these two sides even the same species, let alone the same nationality? On one hand the selflessness and internationalism of the soldiers; on the other the Whites-First isolationism of the protesters. Excuse me, who are the idealists here?

  Julie Burchill

  Hands, Two Sides, Laughing

  "Don't take my name in vain" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2013.

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• I must say that when I first learned of the existence of the Australian Greenhouse Office, I assumed it was responsible for supplying tomatoes to the Parliament House kitchen. But, no, as I soon learnt as industry minister, it was in fact a government funded redoubt of veritable soldiers in a war against carbon dioxide. The zealotry and obsessive passion of these warriors in the battle against the apparent evils of carbon dioxide remains a curiosity to me. After fighting these people for three years as industry minister, I really did wish they would just go away and grow tomatoes.

  Nick Minchin

  War, Passion, Fighting

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• Each restorational advancement of the Army of the Lord has established denominational forts that are given responsibility to maintain the purity and power of that truth... New recruits are now being drafted and trained and older soldiers and generals are being put through intensified training for the next advancement of the Church Army. They are being purified by the Baptism of Fire... Are you ready? Where do you start? What will you do? A new government must be established, a new way of life for those millions of people. You are now ready to rule and reign on your overcomer's throne!

  Bill Hamon

  Responsibility, Army, Fire

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• I have a brother who has been overseas for two tours. I've been very fortunate that he has come home safely. Whether or not you support the war, always support our soldiers.

  Diana DeGarmo

  Brother, War, Home

  Interview with Nick Orlando, www.broadwayworld.com. March 16, 2006.

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• I did a study of soldiers returning from Iraq, and their levels of PTSD were much higher if they had had to shoot a woman or child, even if they knew the person was a suicide bomber.

  Mia Bloom

  Suicide, Children, Iraq

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• When I was in Sri Lanka with the [Tamil] Tigers, there were editorials in the paper saying that soldiers really had to stop raping Tamil women at checkpoints because they were just creating more operatives. The [Tigers] were cognizant of this and exploited it: "Don't be a victim, join the movement.

  Mia Bloom

  Sri Lanka, Creating, Movement

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Some soldier will say, 'You know, sir, you and I have some political disagreements, but I'm glad you came all the way out here.' And you know, you say, 'Well, maybe one day you'll see the light but I'm glad to be out here with you.'

  Henry Rollins

  Light, Political, One Day

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• What I've found is that a lot of soldiers are surprisingly apolitical. Their reality is, "Today I'm going to leave the gate for twelve hours, and I'm going to make it back to the dining facility by sundown with the arms and legs of me and my buddies intact."

  Henry Rollins

  Reality, Twelve, Dining

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Nidal Hasan communicated with Anwar al-Awlaki, a known radical cleric, asked about waging jihad against his fellow soldiers. The problem is because of political correctness, the [Barack] Obama administration, like a lot of folks here, want to search everyone's cell phones and e-mails and not focus on the bad guys. And political correctness is killing people.

  Ted Cruz

  Phones, Cells, People

  The fifth Republican debate, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

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• South Africa, with US support, after the fall of the Portuguese empire, invaded Angola and Mozambique to establish their own puppet regime there. They were trying to protect Namibia, to protect apartheid, and nobody did much about it; but the Cubans sent forces, and furthermore they sent black soldiers and they defeated a white mercenary army, which not only rescued Angola but it sent a shock throughout the continent-it was a psychic shock-white mercenaries were purported to be invincible, and a black army defeated them and sent them back fleeing into South Africa.

  Noam Chomsky

  Fall, Army, Psychics

  "Chomsky on Haiti". Interview with Keane Bhatt, www.counterpunch.org. March 9, 2010.

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• We live in a society in the West, where, when men do violent things, they do them under orders. They are soldiers carrying out orders or mafia men carrying out killings for bosses. But the way things happen in the Middle East is not the same as in the West.

  Robert Fisk

  Men, Order, Boss

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. November 30, 2001.

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• When I was at university, the policemen used to measure how short the women's mini-skirts were and how long guys' hair was. We were living under a government that considers people to be soldiers.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Hair, Government, Long

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We live in an idiotic capitalist self-indulgent society where the sex life of a pop star is more important than impending starvation, land mines and child soldiers in Africa, or more interesting than the world's biggest man-made natural disaster in oil fields of the Middle East.

  Peter Menzel

  Sex, Stars, Children

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• Remember, officers and soldiers, that you are fighting for the blessings of liberty.

  George Washington

  Fighting, Blessing, Liberty

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1776). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.479

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• In War, the young soldier is very apt to regard unusual fatigues as the consquence of faults, mistakes, and embarrassment in the conduct of the whole, and to become distressed and depondent as a consequence. This would not happen if he had been prepared for this beforehand by exercises in peace.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Mistake, War, Exercise

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