Soldier Quotes · Page 31

It is one thing to lead by example with half a dozen soldiers at your back. It is wholly another with ten…

— Steven Erikson

“There’s no better way for a woman to punish a man than to make him sleep away from her.”

— Steven Ramirez

I had the opportunity to learn more about what life is like for a soldier [in The Yellow Birds].

— Alden Ehrenreich

War has become an affair of machines...and soldiers are little more than clever mechanics.

— Alberto Moravia

I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I was born in a family with a strong military background, so I chose to be a soldier.

— Wang Jianlin

The last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me.

— William Westmoreland

Tomorrow we will be nothing but earth and dust. Who will remember the love a soldier once knew?

— Shan Sa

I am a son of my nation. It does not matter whether I am prime minister, a soldier, or a policeman. The…

— Ramzan Kadyrov

If wearing this rag will in any way speed the process of gathering my furture soldiers, then I will waer it. But…

— Frank Beddor

In a guerrilla war, the line between legitimate and illegitimate killing is blurred. The policies of free-fire zones, in which a soldier…

— Philip Caputo

But wishing our Kansas soldiers 'God speed' is not enough. We need to comfort, care for, and protect their families. And we…

— Kathleen Sebelius

“Of course, he was a Captain (Ret.), so perhaps firmness was a requirement of the military? She presumed so. It would be…

— Megan Frampton

The soldier does not wish to appear a coward, disloyal, or un-American. The situation has been so defined that he can see…

— Stanley Milgram

To expect ... the same service from raw and undisciplined recruits, as from veteran soldiers, is to expect what never did and…

— George Washington

I have a lot of nicknames. They called me Kingo in Japan, they called me the Young Vagabond, but that sounds bad,…

— Gegard Mousasi

Universal ratification of the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict will establish an international moral consensus that no…

— Ban Ki-moon

“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

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

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

— Vladimir Putin

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

For all the gold and silver stolen and shipped to Spain did not make the Spanish people richer. It gave their kings…

— Hans Koning

A soldier has one item that cannot be neglected. His feet. They are his wheels, his mechanised warfare.

— Leon Uris

“She gave herself a hard twist and fell into a sitting position, staring at me with those maggot-filled doll’s eyes.”

— Steven Ramirez

George Bush is guilty of murder for the deaths of over 4000 young American soldiers who have died in the Iraqi war.

— Vincent Bugliosi

You have to be willing to sacrifice as much to prevent war, as soldiers are willing to sacrifice to wage war.

— Jodie Evans

I am convinced that in times such as these, every man must be a soldier, in substance as well as in name.

— Seishiro Itagaki

Come on soldiers! Guardians and agents of the supreme law! Here is a sacrifice of dogs ready for your swords!

— Ilghazi

Soldiers are issued armour for their flesh and bones, but they must fashion their own for their souls. Piece by piece.

— Steven Erikson

I sincerely believe that I have served a criminal. I led my soldiers in good conscience... but for a criminal government.

— Walter Model

“The worst excuse a soldier can make for declining service is that he once ranked the commander he is ordered to report…

— Ulysses S. Grant

This is why angels choose sides, why people join teams. It costs too much not to; it weighs too heavily to soldier…

— Lauren Kate

So for, you know, for a good 20 years now I've been involved with veterans and soldiers and in support of them…

— Gary Sinise

“One mark of a great soldier is that he fights on his own terms or fights not at all.”

— Sun Tzu

I believe German soldiers are good and decent, and if they did anything wrong it was because of military necessity.

— Wilhelm Keitel

The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.

— Huey Newton

How long would authority ... exist, if not for the willingness of the mass to become soldiers, policemen, jailers, and hangmen.

— Emma Goldman

I always felt that whatever I had to endure was nothing compared to what the average soldier, sailor or airman had to…

— Vera Lynn