Soldiers Quotes · Page 9

“All the soldiers say that Rob likes to party. And when he gets going, he’s one hell of a dance partner.”

— Daniel H. Wilson

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

— Alberto Moravia

“It’s not about winning, it’s about doing what’s right. And yes, we will do what’s right.”

— Steven Ramirez

The soldiers currently manning our sophisticated weaponry have room temperature IQ's.

— G. Gordon Liddy

When defending itself against another country, a nation never lacks men, but too often, soldiers.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

“They could smile back and forth without speaking, like soldiers who had fought side by side. The”

— Banana Yoshimoto

If we're going to spend more money, it should go to the soldiers, Marines, and airmen to increase their salaries.

— David Hunt

Old soldiers, Miss Dandridge. Someday you'll learn how they hate to give up. Captain of a troop one day, every man's face…

— Frank S Nugent

“Public drunkenness was common, as was tactical listlessness and soldiers who often looked as if they could not run a mile, much…

— Anonymous

When a soldier falls an angle rises the loss on earth is heavens gain always in our hearts and thought RIP brave…

— Anonymous

When I fall in battle I will on with my brothers and so will they cause in war the person you fight…

— Anonymous

Soldiers live. He dies and not you, and you feel guilty, because you're glad he died, and not you. Soldiers live, and…

— Glen Cook

It is remarkable that soldiers by profession, men truly and unquestionably brave, seldom advise war but in cases of extreme necessity.

— Benjamin Franklin

The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head has…

— Jean Giraudoux

“Why anyone should do so, knowing full well the dangers, was beyond the soldiers’ comprehension, but they had learned from past experience…

— James Herbert

If you're a leader, you don't push wet spaghetti, you pull it. The U.S. Army still has to learn that. The British…

— Bill Mauldin

“Just like all people - just want to get on with their lives, and have families, and have a bit of fun…

— Gerald Scarfe

Twenty-first century war adds new risks: more and more often there are no front lines, no central command, no rules of engagement…

— Nancy Gibbs

I've always had a lot of time for servicemen. Yet there's been this bad relationship between civilians and the armed services. We…

— Ross Kemp

“In the murk ahead of them a pair of blazing torches indicated the entrance to the forum, with a pair of sentries…

— Anthony Riches

“The result of these shared experiences was a closeness unknown to all outsiders. Comrades are closer than friends, closer than brothers. Their…

— Stephen E. Ambrose

“The most common theory points to the fact that men are stronger than women and that they have used their greater physical…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“I came to see soldiers as men willing to lay down their lives for the sake of others. They fight for themselves…

— Marcus Brotherton

Two soldiers and a villain are enough to blow up the rights of the citizens.

— Franz Grillparzer

“‘Can’t you see what they are?’ I said. ‘They’re all dead.’”

— Steven Ramirez

Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?

— Karl Kraus

“They came across more ragged men resting in the shade of an oak tree. These soldiers all wore blue uniforms. Again,”

— Mary Pope Osborne

A leader must be ready to send the soldiers under his command to their deaths

— Anonymous

I was sometimes jeered by black soldiers who wanted me to sing something besides country music.

— Charley Pride

“Her voice was small and distant, like she’d already left the room.”

— Steven Ramirez

They may not be conscripted against their will as the foot soldiers in a federal crusade.

— John Paul Stevens

The gallantry and aggressive fighting spirit of the Russian soldiers command the American army's admiration.

— George C. Marshall

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

— Charles Spurgeon

The majority of soldiers and officers of the Soviet Army and the allied armies treated the local population humanely.

— Antony Beevor

That's what's wrong with the country. There are too many 'good soldiers' accepting too many bad decisions.

— Shirley Chisholm

The violence and burnings in Lebanon were the work of Syrian soldiers and workers dressed in civilian clothes.

— Walid Jumblatt

I am marooned on a Crag of Superiority in an ocean of soldiers.

— Wilfred Owen

It is always an eerie experience to sit among Bashar al-Assad's soldiers.

— Robert Fisk

“Soldiers and children do as they're told. Children grow out of it, but soldiers just die.”

— Laini Taylor