Soldier Quotes - Page 28

• The soldiers did go away and their towns were torn down; and in the Moon of Falling Leaves (November), they made a treaty with Red Cloud that said our country would be ours as long as grass should grow and water flow.

  Black Elk

  Country, Fall, Moon

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• Soldiers of the American Revolution fought that 18th century war with heavy muskets. In the early 20th century, we kids fought it every Fourth of July not only with exploding powder and shimmering flares, but with all of our senses.

  Paul Engle

  War, Kids, July

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• Without the brave efforts of all the soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines and their families, this Nation, along with our allies around the world, would not stand so boldly, shine so brightly and live so freely.

  Lane Evans

  Marine, Shining, Effort

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• To be a soldier one needs that special gene, that extra something, that enables a person to jump into one on one combat, something, after all, that is unimaginable to most of us, as we are simply not brave enough.

  Rupert Everett

  Brave, Special, Needs

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• I've always disliked kamikazes, that is, people who commit suicide in order to kill others. Starting with the Japanese ones from World War II. I never considered them Pietro Miccas who torch the powder and go up with the citadel in order to block the arrival of the enemy troops at Torino. I never considered them soldiers.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Suicide, Block, War

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• The soldiers that didn't come back were the heroes. It's a roll of the dice. If a bullet has your name on it, you're a hero. If you hear a bullet go by, you're a survivor.

  Bob Feller

  Hero, Names, Survivor

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• Our brave soldiers and support personnel are engaged in a battle as important as any the United States has ever before waged, for the success of democracy in Iraq is a crucial test of the ideals this Nation was founded upon.

  Virginia Foxx

  Iraq, Support, Brave

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• If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces, that is eventually going to have an effect on soldiers and troops who are actually going to believe that and it's wrong. It's just wrong.

  Al Franken

  Believe, Troops, Comedy

  "American Forces Radio: Objective view of the home front?" by Tom Foreman, www.cnn.com. June 2, 2004.

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• The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.

  Edward Gibbon

  Army, Navy, Quality

  Edward Gibbon (1840). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire”, p.283

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• I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.

  Bear Grylls

  Army, Years, Half

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• I grew up in the military. I've lived that life. I know that our soldiers are out there fighting for our right to vote, and they're out there fighting for other countries' rights to vote... Guys have been dying for it, and we have to go out and exercise it.

  Robert Griffin III

  Country, Military, Exercise

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• Childbirth changed my perception of my wife. She was now the bloodied special forces soldier who had fought and risked everything for our family.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Wife, Perception, Special

  Mohsin Hamid (2015). “Discontent and its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London”, p.38, Penguin

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• I'm just a living witness that you can be an imperfect soldier and still be in the army fighting for God Almighty. Don't you think you got to be perfect 'cause I ain't.

  Steve Harvey

  Relationship, Success, Faith

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

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• One of the great joys this year and the year before has been how all of the people in this body, men and women, Republicans and Democrats, have worked together so well with our chairman and the chairman of the full committee to address the issues of housing for our soldiers.

  Robin Hayes

  Men, Years, Issues

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• Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.

  Heinrich Heine

  Funny Wedding, Battle, Sexuality

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• My very first recollection of life on earth was waking up in bed with my mother, and she was showing me a picture of my father, Charles Jackson, with a group of soldiers.

  Jesse Jackson

  Mother, Father, Bed

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• Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done.

  John Keegan

  Letting Go, Loyalty, Tasks

  "Harry Reid Gave An All-Out Defense Of Obama's Decision To Free Bergdahl On The Senate Floor" by Colin Campbell, www.businessinsider.com. June 4, 2014.

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• Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier.

  William Lyon Mackenzie King

  Self, Discipline, Quality

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• Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?

  Karl Kraus

  Children, Army, Play

  Karl Kraus, Jonathan McVity (2001). “Dicta and Contradicta”, p.50, University of Illinois Press

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• Doolittle looked just like a little toy soldier the first time I ever saw him.

  Loretta Lynn

  Littles, Saws, Firsts

  Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, Vintage

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• I get a certain feeling when I go to Lambeau field in Green Bay. Soldier field in Chicago is special to me. Those are the places that I really like. The stadiums.

  John Madden

  Feelings, Special, Chicago

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• 9/11 was a deliberate, carefully planned evil act of the long-waged war on the West by Koran-inspired soldiers of Allah around the world. They hated us before George W. Bush was in office. They hated us before Israel existed. And the avengers of the religion of perpetual outrage will keep hating us.

  Michelle Malkin

  Hate, War, Israel

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• I don't imagine Heads of Government would ever be able to say I'm not an economist therefore I can't take decisions on matters of the economy; I'm not a soldier I can't take decisions on matters of defence; I'm not an educationist so I can't take decisions about education.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Government, Decision, Matter

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• President Reagan was concerned - deeply concerned, emotionally concerned - with the loss of life of any American, but especially with the lives of military soldiers, Marines, navy.

  Robert McFarlane

  Military, Loss, Marine

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• We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was listening to the free radio stations and I noticed that during their war coverage they were playing these songs born out of the Vietnam War that were all critical of the soldiers.

  Joni Mitchell

  Song, War, Creativity

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