Soldier Quotes - Page 4

• It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda tours.

  George Orwell

  War, Fighting, Lines

  George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.70, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Four Lessons on Life 1. Never take down a fence until you know why it was put up. 2. If you get too far ahead of the army, your soldiers may mistake you for the enemy. 3. Don't complain about the bottom rungs of the ladder; they helped to get you higher. 4. If you want to enjoy the rainbow, be prepared to endure the storm.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Life, Change, Mistake

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• It is time to acknowledge the extraordinary sacrifice of all of our veterans. While many Massachusetts soldiers served our nation in a period technically dubbed 'peacetime,' they restored American pride in the wake of Vietnam and helped bring a successful end to the Cold War. The service of these men and women was not without cost. There are countless stories of soldiers who served with great distinction only to be denied veteran status after returning home. Every man and woman who volunteered to serve this country should be treated with the same degree of respect, gratitude and dignity.

  Mitt Romney

  Country, Gratitude, War

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• Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Veterans Day, War, Work

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• Wars damage the civilian society as much as they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it.

  Paul Fussell

  War, Enemy, Damage

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• Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates.

  F. E. Adcock

  Military, War, Army

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• In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Strength, Peace, War

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953”, p.5, Best Books on

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• When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.

  George Washington

  4th Of July, Army, Navy

  Letter to New York Legislature, 26 June 1775

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• When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Thank You, Cutting, Army

  Barrack-Room Ballads (1892) "The Young British Soldier"

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  War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Death, Military, War

  "The Civil War Generation". Book by Norman K. Risjord, p. 143, 2002.

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• A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Father

  "U.S. News & World Report", Vol. 110, Issues 5, (p. 32), February 11, 1991.

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• Kill every enemy twice, Wilky said. Better than gettin' shot by a soldier pretending to be dead.

  Joseph Bruchac

  Enemy, Pretending, Shots

  Joseph Bruchac (2006). “Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two”, p.81, Penguin

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• We are born into this time and must bravely follow the path to the destined end. There is no other way. Our duty is to hold on to the lost position, without hope, without rescue, like that Roman soldier whose bones were found in front of a door in Pompeii, who, during the eruption of Vesuvius, died at his post because they forgot to relieve him. That is greatness. That is what it means to be a thoroughbred. The honorable end is the one thing that can not be taken from a man.

  Oswald Spengler

  Taken, Mean, Greatness

  Oswald Spengler (2016). “Routledge Revivals: Man and Technics (1932): A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life”, p.56, Routledge

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• You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Art, Pistols, Boxes

  Arms and the Man (1898) act 1

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• In "The Myth of Sisyphus", his most important non-fiction work, Albert Camus suggested that if we believed what most people claim to be the purpose of life, we would feel compelled to commit suicide. If, however, we accept that life has no purpose we would be inclined to soldier on in a cussed, stoical manner like Sisyphus, endlessly pushing his rock up a hill only to see it roll down again.

  Philip French

  Life, Death, Suicide

  "Feathered frenzy" by Philip French, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2005.

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• Alabama soldiers, all I ask of you is to keep up with the Texans!

  Robert E. Lee

  War, Alabama, Texan

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• I don’t duel, boy. I kill as a soldier kills, which is as a butcher kills, as quickly, efficiently, and with as least risk to myself as I can arrange.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Boys, Risk, Butchers

  "The Curse of Chalion". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 2001.

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• In World War II in Germany, we had a ration for one U.S. soldier, or one allied soldier for every twenty inhabitants. The ratio in Iraq is about one for a hundred and sixty.

  William Eldridge Odom

  War, Iraq, Twenties

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• I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I've done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?

  Douglas MacArthur

  Journey, Soul, Honor

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• The South produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors, lawyers and poets, but certainly not engineers or mechanics. Let the Yankees adopt such low callings.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Yankees, Doctors, Calling

  "Gone with the Wind".

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• War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  War, Matter, Serious

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• Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man gainst his own bosom. Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an Americans.

  Tench Coxe

  Men, Gun, Arms

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• The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.

  Iris Chang

  Uprising, Rebellion, Worst

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• When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a labourer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do.

  Blaise Pascal

  Giving, Hard Life, Trying

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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• Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  War, Believe, Umpires

  Diary entry. "Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States". Book edited by Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, August 11, 1890.

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