Soldier Quotes · Page 16

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

— Anonymous

“Sal turned, an eye stalk hanging from his teeth.”

— Steven Ramirez

Every means should be taken to attach the soldier to his colours.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

A Father's dream is to train up a soldier who will defend his home.

— Terry Mark

When a soldier is hit by a cannonball, rags are as becoming as purple.

— Henry David Thoreau

Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

— Seneca the Younger

I was a general and a soldier, and I am proud of that.

— Lloyd Austin

The sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war.

— Geraldine Brooks

“Soldier, you are gay until the United States military tells you otherwise.”

— Ryan Gielen

If I have to be a soldier I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable

— Wilfred Owen

I knew that if the feat was accomplished it must be at a most fearful sacrifice of as brave and gallant soldiers…

— Anonymous

No man can be a Christian and a soldier at the same time, for the two ideas are wholly incompatible.

— Anonymous

Behind every American soldier, dozens of their countrymen tonight sleep soundly — and hundreds more in their shadow abroad will wake up…

— Victor Davis Hanson

Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

According to what the IDF says to its soldiers. I don't know if this is what the IDF says to the media.

— Amira Hass

I get a certain feeling when I go to Lambeau field in Green Bay. Soldier field in Chicago is special to me.…

— John Madden

My very identity as a soldier came to an abrupt end. I'd been soldiering as long as I'd been shaving. Suddenly I'd…

— Stanley A. McChrystal

I was eighteen, this was back in '46, so we also had these very frightening images of soldiers in the streets of…

— Agnes Varda

I don't know where [Osama bin Laden] is. You know, I just don't spend that much time on him, to be honest…

— George W. Bush

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

— Rutherford B. Hayes

I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have…

— Douglas MacArthur

The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional…

— George Washington

And the program was developed in large part by behavioral scientists who were working with the military, who do everything they possibly…

— Jane Mayer

I must say that when I first learned of the existence of the Australian Greenhouse Office, I assumed it was responsible for…

— Nick Minchin

“When I tried to sing by myself, I felt sad and empty, for inevitably my father's favorite songs came to me, and…

— Irmgard A. Hunt

In "The Myth of Sisyphus", his most important non-fiction work, Albert Camus suggested that if we believed what most people claim to…

— Philip French

"Authenticity" doesn't mean much to me. I just want "good", in the sense of well-designed, well-constructed, long-lasting garments. My interest in military…

— William Gibson

I hope that the responsible figures in the Ukrainian leadership will not hinder soldiers in the Ukrainian army from putting down their…

— Vladimir Putin

So whom does God wrong in commanding the destruction of the Canaanites? Not the Canaanite adults, for they were corrupt and deserving…

— William Lane Craig

“He had good, open features and a confident air; his blue eyes were wide and watchful, but something about them seemed to…

— Sarah Brazytis

A common and natural result of an undue respect for law is, that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel, captain,…

— Henry David Thoreau

Is your father a soldier, because your a bomb and you just kill me.

— Banks

In Russia, we have proverb: Only bad soldiers don't want to be general.

— Sasha Pivovarova

I am a soldier. That is who I am. That is what I do.

— Benny Gantz

My wife was as much of a soldier as I was.

— Zachary Taylor

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

— Harry S. Truman

I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.

— Thornton Wilder

It costs us $1 million for every troop[soldier] in Afghanistan.

— Lawrence Korb

Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers' imperial dreams.

— Matsuo Basho