Soldier Quotes - Page 29

• People are free to campaign and they will be free to vote. There won't be any soldiers, you know, at the queues. Anyone who has the right to vote is free to go and cast his vote anywhere in his own area, in his own constituency.

  Robert Mugabe

  People, Campaigns, Vote

  "Mugabe slams Blair, vows free vote". Interview with Jeff Koinange, www.cnn.com. March 30, 2005.

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• The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.

  Benito Mussolini

  Citizens, Function, Inseparable

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• One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Military, War, Iraq

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• I think hip-hop could help rebuild America, once hip-hoppers own hip-hop... We are our own politicians, our own government, we have something to say. We're warriors. Soldiers.

  Nas

  Warrior, Thinking, Government

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

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• Here's how I think of my money - as soldiers - I send them out to war everyday. I want them to take prisoners and come home, so there's more of them.

  Kevin O'Leary

  War, Home, Thinking

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• Money is my military, each dollar a soldier. I never send my money into battle unprepared and undefended. I send it to conquer and take currency prisoner and bring it back to me.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Military, Battle, Dollars

  Kevin O'Leary (2011). “Cold Hard Truth: On Business, Money & Life”, p.147, Doubleday Canada

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• Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Police, Training, Unfair

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• America has also forever lost the service of thousands of good soldiers who are now disabled as a result of battle wounds in Iraq. Many others will need mental and emotional rehabilitation before they can return to normal life.

  John Olver

  Emotional, Battle Wounds, Iraq

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• As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.

  Lester B. Pearson

  War, World, Comrade

  Lester B. Pearson (1964). “The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements”, McClelland and Stewart

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• The true legacy of 9-11 cannot be found among political leaders of the day, but in the citizen soldiers and public safety personnel who answered that day with courage and selflessness.

  Mike Pence

  Safety, Leader, Political

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

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• Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine.

  Sean Penn

  Sacrifice, Medicine, May

  Open Letter to the President George W. Bush, www.snopes.com. November 3, 2002.

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• The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Sheep, Wind, Shepherds

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• During 65 years, I have walked the path of duty and discipline... And today, looking back at that long path of service, my soldier's heart stirs and murmurs from deep within: Thank you. Thank you, my homeland.

  Augusto Pinochet

  Thank You, Heart, Years

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• The male role models I had all seemed to have been in the military. My father served in the army. My uncle was in the Marine Corps. Both of my grandfathers served in WWII. There weren't any career soldiers in my family, but when I was young it seemed like a way of arriving at adulthood.

  Kevin Powers

  Uncles, Father, Military

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• Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.

  Tim Robbins

  Art, Thinking, Imagination

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• Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

  Will Rogers

  Military, War, Fall

  Paula Love, Will Rogers (1972). “The Will Rogers book”, Texian Pr

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• I believe that the purpose for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them, and that, had this been done, the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  War, Believe, Should Have

  Siegfried Sassoon (1949). “The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston”

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• As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Struggle, Men, Battle

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• If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say?

  Charles Schumer

  Obsolete, Conventions, Geneva

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• All soldiers who serve their country and put their lives at risk need to know that if something happens to them, their families will be well taken care of. That's the bond we have with our military men and women and their families.

  Jeff Sessions

  Country, Military, Taken

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• When I was between the ages of five and nine, the soldiers of the Second World War wanted to have Betty Grable, but I wanted to be Betty Grable. She was the epitome of an alluring woman; she had it all as far as I was concerned.

  Grace Slick

  War, Age, World

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• Any number of scoundrels, having money enough to start with, can establish themselves as a 'government'; because, with money, they can hire soldiers, and with soldiers extort more money; and also compel general obedience to their will.

  Lysander Spooner

  Government, Numbers, Enough

  Lysander Spooner (1973). “No Treason and a Letter to Thomas F. Bayard”

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• The whole point of me doing a Christmas record and what I centered it around was the song 'Christmas with You' from the point-of-view of the soldiers in Iraq.

  Rick Springfield

  Christmas, Song, Iraq

  "American TV Icon: Rick Springfield". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. December 26, 2007.

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• Many of our soldiers are stationed at Camp Coyote just south of the Iraqi border. This is how you know we have a strong army, when you can actually tell your enemy exactly where your camp is and what its name is.

  Jon Stewart

  Strong, Army, Names

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• The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Army, Feelings, Navy

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