“To the army of common soldiers, who do the actual fighting, and risk mutilation and death, there is no reward except the… — Warren Olney Copy Share Image
Sometimes it takes the pain of a Deployment to realize how we take the little things for granted and how much we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have never understood why the politicians who are most eager to send soldiers into harm's way are always depicted as their… — Joe Conason Copy Share Image
You may hate the war, but never hate the ones that fight. For they do not choose when or where to fight.… — Millie Copy Share Image
Our soldiers have nobly fought to protect freedom since our country's birth, and have fought to protect those that could not protect… — John Linder Copy Share Image
Soldiers fighting a daily battle under frightening conditions can feel their leaders are far removed from their reality. There's no magic cure… — Stanley A. McChrystal Copy Share Image
By my count, of the more than 600 English-language World War II movies made since 1940, only four have even acknowledged the… — Stephen Hunter Copy Share Image
My dad was my hero. He was part of the D-Day landings and came back to Reading in 1945 - I was… — Chris Tarrant Copy Share Image
“I wanted to share the risks the digger in Afghanistan took every day. Whenever I could I joined patrols ‘outside the wire’,… — John Cantwell Copy Share Image
“It was radicals like you and your father that hijacked your faith, hijacked a few planes, and made thousands of children orphans… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
“You are the commanders, your men will look to you and act as you do. Let no officer keep to himself or… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“Qadir waded out of the water next, the chestnut mare calm under his touch, and Silus raised a disgusted eyebrow. ‘There’s no… — Anthony Riches Copy Share Image
“We are sometimes asked in the name of patriotism to forget the merits of this fearful struggle [the Civil War], and to… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Whenever I look at pictures of horrific things that soldiers do or that have been done to soldiers I always feel sorry… — Gideon Raff Copy Share Image
“I came to see soldiers as men willing to lay down their lives for the sake of others. They fight for themselves… — Marcus Brotherton Copy Share Image
“A group of soldiers were standing at formation when their instructor said, “All right, all you dummies fall out.” Only one man… — Mariana Zapata Copy Share Image
Without excuse and self-consideration of health or limb or life, true soldiers fight, live to fight, love the thickest of the fight,… — William Booth Copy Share Image
Your freedom is brought to you courtesy of the outstanding Men and Women who serve and have served this country with honor,… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
When the war started, religion and superstition (whatever the difference is) permeated the lives of ordinary soldiers, who lived in a thought… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“When the soldiers entered the woods moments later, they found only a servant girl leading two goats instead of the fleeing coach… — K.M. Shea Copy Share Image
“Many of the most heroic deeds of the war were performed by small, isolated groups of soldiers, unaware of the situation, without… — Robert E. Merriam Copy Share Image
No one wants to trivialise the gigantic challenge of battling terrorism or undermine the sacrifice of our soldiers and policemen. — Barkha Dutt Copy Share Image
The greatness of our Army has always been the ability of our soldiers who serve in the ranks to rise to the… — Julius W. Gates Copy Share Image
When German soldiers used to come to my studio and look at my pictures of Guernica, they'd ask 'Did you do this?'.… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“Only victors have stories to tell, we the vanquished were then thought of as cowards and weaklings whose memories and fears should… — Guy Sajer Copy Share Image
We need to fix this. It hasn't been done yet because there's still a reluctance to admit that there was even a… — Janis Karpinski Copy Share Image
A sense of beauty is every hindrance to a soldier; yet there would be no soldiers - or none such soldier had… — Ivor Gurney Copy Share Image
“Officers have been trying for hundreds of years to outsmart soldiers and have still not learned that it cannot be done. We… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
One has this image of the Soviet state and the Red Army as being extremely disciplined but in the first four months… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
I think that some of our soldiers die in the battlefield and some come home to bad health and die prematurely, just… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I want it understood that all these men fought for principle, not for plunder, and that they were true-hearted, honorable soldiers, fighting… — Cole Younger Copy Share Image
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… — Richard Belzer Copy Share Image
We have as a nation been duped by those who use our guilt about how we treated the innocent pawns in the… — Steven Weber Copy Share Image
I was a film editor for eight years before I made my first feature, 'Dog Soldiers.' I am from Newcastle upon Tyne,… — Neil Marshall Copy Share Image
The great help of being in the Army is to understand why are the armies clever in what they describe as emotional… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
“And as he recalls the old soldier's wisdom regarding bullets and fate, how pointless evasion is when each shot has a man's… — Emma Richler Copy Share Image
“For this one night, I saw with my own eyes the balance, the madness, the respect, the damage, the love, the intensity,… — Rachel Stephens Showman, Those Ducks Look Aggressive Copy Share Image
“I knew then I was going to die in the street without ever seeing Holly again. All because I tried to help… — Steven Ramirez Copy Share Image
God please guide him as he travels to the places our soldiers have bled and walk with him through pathways where those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The soldiers lie in the grey morning. Thickets separate them. They are on manoeuvres. They are at war with their hands, their… — Herta Müller Copy Share Image
![“We are sometimes asked in the name of patriotism to forget the merits of this fearful struggle [the Civil War], and to remember with equal admiration those who struck at the nation’s life, and those who struck to save it—those who fought for slavery, and those who fought for liberty and justice. I…” quote by Frederick Douglass](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/886/frederick-douglass-859_civil-war_we-are-sometimes-asked-in-the-name-of-pa_1761326.jpg)
