Soldier Quotes · Page 56

All you have to do is hold your first soldier who is dying in your arms, and have that terribly futile feeling…

— Norman Schwarzkopf

Professional soldiers are people who die for a living.

— George Carlin

There are three ways in which a ruler can bring misfortune on his army: By commanding the army to advance or to…

— Sun Tzu

There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single…

— James Callaghan

War may be an auction for countries. For soldiers it's a lottery.

— David Mitchell

By the time we complete the care for the wounded soldiers, $6 trillion, that's $50,000 per American household.

— Jill Stein

I can work hard and be disciplined like a soldier, but I could never reach their level of fitness.

— Richard Armitage

Our poetry emulates the recent progress in military strategy: Our army's strength is the foot soldiers.

— Franz Grillparzer

Apart from the fact that any hardy exercise conduces much to the training and formation of a soldier, pig-sticking tends to give…

— Robert Baden-Powell

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

— Geraldine Brooks

[I]t's impossible to evade the fact that Endless War will inevitably degrade the citizenry of the country that engages in it. A…

— Glenn Greenwald

“the Sanctuary was reserved for the rich and elite--those with fortunes, not soldiers of fortune.”

— Drew Karpyshyn

“My mother describes me as 'a real hero . . . just like your grandfather'. But I do not know what to…

— Jake Wood

A soldier fights with an irresistible strength when he has blown up his bridges and burnt his boats. Even so, it is…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The extreme self-sacrifice characteristic of group-selected species such as ants and bees can often be found among soldiers.

— Jonathan Haidt

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The blurring of the line between policy and strategy] encouraged soldiers to make the preposterous claim that policy should be subservient to…

— B. H. Liddell Hart

I've always wanted to play a soldier and I'd never taken on a character where I'm the happy-go-lucky protagonist. I've played a…

— Jesse McCartney

Divas do it, golfers do it, pilots do it, violists do it, sprinters do it, soldiers do it, surgeons do it, astronauts…

— Tom Peters

Contrasting British servicemen and women with the appeasers, it is hard not to laugh. Are these two sides even the same species,…

— Julie Burchill

An American soldier, Saddam in his sights, has a picture of a naked, buxom woman on his dashboard, an obvious affront to…

— Margo Kingston

The last three movies I've done, I played a cowboy, then I played a soldier, and now I play Han Solo. So…

— Alden Ehrenreich

“I was a spectator who had gotten free admission to a freak show.”

— Steven Ramirez

Many of our soldiers are stationed at Camp Coyote just south of the Iraqi border. This is how you know we have…

— Jon Stewart

The imperialistic or capitalistic system occupies areas. It occupies Vietnam now. They occupy them by sending soldiers there, by sending policeman there.…

— Huey Newton