Soldiers Quotes · Page 8

“His eyes were like two wafers of slate, grey and lifeless.”

— Steven Ramirez

In Defense of the World Order . . . U.S. soldiers would have to kill and die.

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

These soldiers deserve a better defense secretary than the one we have.

— Anonymous

Everyone knows what can happen to soldiers who are in front line units.

— Richard Engel

“I'd rather have ten soldiers to guard than a single scholar.”

— Alexandre Dumas

“I heard them tearing at it. It was the sound of mortality.”

— Steven Ramirez

The preservation of freedom, is not the task of soldiers alone. The whole nation has to be strong.

— Lal Bahadur Shastri

Freedom is not free, everyday soldiers give their lives so that we can live ours.

— Nathaniel Mepham

“Support our troops!” we cry, but I say, “Love our veterans!” And when he neglects church, take him cookies anyway. Sing him…

— Chila Woychik

Not for the first time, he wished he commanded a highly trained bunch of soldiers instead of a ragtag mob of rejects…

— Chris Wooding

I think it's a stereotype that soldiers don't talk, because my experience is that they will talk if they are met with…

— Mary Gauthier

Women's roles are diminished for obvious reasons. It's the men whose names are on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and…

— Cokie Roberts

"Why me?" That is the soldier's first question, asked each morning as the patrols go out and each evening as the night…

— William Broyles Jr

“Some of the soldiers made disparaging comments about the fact that he was a womanform when they thought he couldn’t hear them.…

— Yoon Ha Lee

You look at any war zone and you talk to any soldiers and they have to blank out - in order for…

— David Morrissey

What was so amazing and inspiring about 'GoodFellas' was that it showed the foot soldiers; the people more at the bottom as…

— John Hillcoat

In Burton's day they [soldiers] were itching to get into the fray. Now it is the opposite. They are always whining about…

— Rupert Everett

They fought as they revelled, fast, fiery, and true, And, though victors, they left on the field not a few; And they…

— Thomas Davis

For a man to be a man, did he have to be a soldier, or at least prepare himself for war? For…

— Carol Gilligan

My father being a soldier, every time I saw soldiers marching - 'Well,' I thought, 'my father's that,' and these soldiers were…

— Spike Milligan

“Do you have still the dye with which to turn your tunic red?’ ‘The madder? Yes, I do.’ ‘Enough of it for…

— M.C. Scott

“That's the big mistake a lot of people make when they wonder how soldiers can put their lives on the line day…

— Nicholas Sparks

Every good soldier wants to live in an organized environment, secure in the knowledge that he or she will not be threatened…

— William A. Connelly

“Five German soldiers and a police dog on a leash were looking down into the bed of the creek. The soldiers' blue…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“The recruits of 1914 have the look of ghosts. They are queuing up to be slaughtered: they are already dead.”

— Geoff Dyer

Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they've been given.

— Orson Scott Card

Understandably, the electorate places great faith in the professional soldiers and strategists that run our military.

— Clive Lewis

A soldier doesn't fight because he hates the enemy in front of him, he fights because he loves what he left behind.

— Mario Tomasello

I'm as interested in the families and communities that surround our soldiers.

— Robyn Carr

“Even now I can’t describe the fear that contaminated my blood like black ink.”

— Steven Ramirez

“Remember. Observe, assess and act. No hesitation. No remorse.”

— Steven Ramirez

“War's a racket. No doubt. But war is a racket for the politicians, not the soldiers.”

— Sean Beaudoin

To our Soldiers: Thank you again and again, you will always matter, not only on this Memorial Day but every day!

— Nathan East

Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.

— George S. Patton

A lot of songwriters have written about soldiers and war, but very few have written with them.

— Mary Gauthier

We can't run away from troubles, but like soldiers, we can always face them and fight through to survive.

— Terry Mark

The wind bit hard at Valley Forge one Christmas. Soldiers tied rags on their feet. Red footprints wrote on the snow...

— Carl Sandburg

“you've no idea, the whole Army's obsessed with playing at soldiers...”

— Tom Stoppard

Soldiers' bellies are not satisfied with empty promises and hopes.

— Peter the Great

“Your fellow soldiers had to know that you had their back. That was rule one, lesson one, and above all else.”

— Harlan Coben