Soldier Quotes - Page 22

• When it comes to the challenges of the actual process, I soldier on as best I can, on my own.

  Andre Naffis-Sahely

  Challenges, Process, My Own

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I am also full of admiration for Chelsea Manning [formerly PFC Bradley Manning]. Regardless of which side of the argument you're on, he stood up for something he felt wasn't right. That was an extraordinarily brave thing to do, and I think he was unfairly punished for it. It's a really big deal what he did, and he did it for the betterment of all us, including the soldiers on the ground, as well as the civilians caught up in those conflicts.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Thinking, Brave, Sides

  "“The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” Interview with Kam Williams". Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. December 10, 2013.

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• The U.S. military is investing in new storage technology because most of the weight that soldiers carry on their backs is batteries. Once that gets developed for the military, it will be expanded to civilians.

  Christiana Figueres

  Military, Technology, Batteries

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I see many soldiers; could I but see many warriors! "Uniform" one calleth what they wear; may it not be uniform what they therewith hide!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Warrior, May, Uniforms

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel”, p.53, e-artnow

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• When a soldier of the night's watch dies they say, "And now his watch is over." That's what they say when a comedian dies. They go, "And now his tour is done."

  Brad Williams

  Night, Comedian, Watches

  "Interview with comedian Brad Williams". Interview with Michelle Tompkins, thecelebritycafe.com. September 1, 2016.

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• The nationalists' coup in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev in February 2014 has hugely scared 2.5 million Russian people living on Crimea. So what did we do? We have not gone to war, we have not fired, not a single person was killed. Our soldiers have merely prevented the Ukrainian troops on Crimea from impeding the freedom of expression of the people.

  Vladimir Putin

  War, Expression, People

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Post-traumatic stress, that's why the soldiers need marijuana, is for their mental health. It makes them feel better so that they don't have the horrors of war in their mind all the time. And the government won't allow them to have it, because it's illegal - federally. It's absurd.

  Jesse Ventura

  War, Stress, Feel Better

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• In war, discipline is superior to strength; but if that discipline is neglected there is no longer any difference between the soldier and the peasant.

  Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

  Military, War, Differences

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• I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we'll fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag.

  Smedley Butler

  War, Believe, Fighting

  Major General Smedley Butler's speech, 1933.

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• To seduce the enemies soldiers from their allegiance and encourage them to surrender is of special service, for an adversary is more hurt by desertion than by slaughter.

  Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

  Hurt, Military, Enemy

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• The only way for a soldier to not be afraid of wars is to accept the fact that he is already dead.

  Ronald Speirs

  War, Facts, Way

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• A soldier's longing to talk about his experiences of battle is a wound that never heals.

  Ralph Peters

  Battle, Longing, Heal

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• We're at war with the ISIS caliphate that sprang up because Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama precipitously withdrew all American forces from Iraq and created a vacuum of power, that ISIS was able to overrun vast territories that our soldiers had won in Operation Iraqi Freedom.

  Mike Pence

  War, Iraq, Isis

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• According to a recent Harvard study, $6 trillion, when you include the ongoing healthcare expenses for our wounded soldiers, which is the least they deserve, but $6 trillion for Iraq and Afghanistan alone.

  Jill Stein

  Iraq, Ongoing, Healthcare

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• By the time we complete the care for the wounded soldiers, $6 trillion, that's $50,000 per American household.

  Jill Stein

  Care, Wounded, Household

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• On healthcare we are the prisoner of our past. The way we got to develop any kind of medical insurance program was during World War II when companies facing shortages of workers began to offer healthcare benefits as an inducement for employment. So from the early 1940s healthcare was seen as a privilege connected to employment. And after the war when soldiers came back and went back into the market there was a lot of competition, because the economy was so heated up.

  Hillary Clinton

  War, Past, Competition

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I will not support putting American soldiers into Iraq as an occupying force. I don't think that is in our interest, and I don't think that would be smart to do. In fact, I think that would be a big red flag waving for ISIS to reconstitute itself.

  Hillary Clinton

  Smart, Thinking, Isis

  The third presidential debate between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2016.

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• Mao lived very much like the rank and file of the Red Army. After ten years of leadership of the Reds, after hundreds of confiscations of property of landlords, officials and tax collectors, he owned only his blankets, and a few personal belongings, including two cotton uniforms. Although he is a Red Army commander as well as chairman, he wore on his coat collar only two Red bars that are the insignia of the ordinary Red soldier.

  Edgar Snow

  Army, Years, Two

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Just think of the trust that often exists in soldiers. Within their own unit, you could say they have to trust each other. A spirit of camaraderie builds up and, in the end, they will risk their lives for each other. They may even go so far as to dehumanise the other, enemy group - a mechanism you can also observe in chimps.

  Jane Goodall

  Thinking, Risk, Enemy

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• We must act with vindictive earnestness against the Sioux, even to their extermination, men, women and children... during an assault, the soldiers cannot pause to distinguish between male and female, or even discriminate as to age.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Children, Men, Age

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Roger Ebert was a very valiant soldier of cinema who passed away, and we miss him. It's over with serious discourse about cinema in the print media and on television. It has been replaced by celebrity news. So we are speaking in his spirit always.

  Werner Herzog

  Print Media, Missing, Television

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• I read as many books about the psychology of a psychopath as I could and I researched what exactly happens to soldiers.

  Patrick Heusinger

  Book, Psychology, Psychopath

  "'Jack Reacher' Villain Patrick Heusinger on Playing Opposite Tom Cruise". Interview with Harper's Bazaar, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 24, 2016.

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• As modern society is formed against the backdrop of a permanent war zone, a carceral state and hyper-militarism, the social stature of the military and soldiers has risen.

  Henry Giroux

  Military, War, Modern

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The last three movies I've done, I played a cowboy, then I played a soldier, and now I play Han Solo. So the little kid in me is having a real joyride.

  Alden Ehrenreich

  Real, Kids, Cowboy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• [The Yellow Birds] is based on a novel written by Kevin Powers, who is an Iraq War vet. I play a soldier who promises my friend's mother I'm going to keep him alive. But when we go overseas to Iraq, he gets killed. It's about what happened to him, my reckoning and dealing with that as I return home from the war.

  Alden Ehrenreich

  Mother, War, Home

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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