Soldier Quotes

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Soldiers and peasants lived together on friendly terms; they knew each other and their everyday routines, and trusted each other; they shook their heads together… — Ernst Toller
American soldiers had to guard prisoners on the inside while receiving mortar and weapons fire from the outside. Guantanamo is distant from any battlefield, making… — John Yoo
Patton was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn't like that attitude. — Bill Mauldin
There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death. — Mary Stewart
The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to… — Goldwin Smith
I would say that I'm a nonviolent soldier. In place of weapons of violence, you have to use your mind, your heart, your sense of… — Joan Baez
In Sherman's famous march through Georgia, his soldiers left a swath of death and destruction, destroying crops, burning homes and killing civilians. Sherman himself acknowledged… — John Pugsley
...there are at the present moment many colored men in the Confederate Army...as real soldiers, having muskets on their shoulders, and bullets in their pockets,… — Frederick Douglass
General Longstreet,when once in a fight, was a most brilliant soldier; but he was the hardest man to move I had in my army. — Robert E. Lee
Alabama soldiers, all I ask of you is to keep up with the Texans! — Robert E. Lee
The colored man has been accustomed all his life to lean on the white man, and if a good officer is placed over him, he… — Ulysses S. Grant
There are at present many Coloured men in the Confederate Army doing duty not only as cooks, servants and labourers, but real soldiers, having muskets… — Frederick Douglass
This is so like the way the Americans deliberately erroneously refer to Afghans and Iraqis as terrorists when they fight back killing American soldiers to… — Bob Barker
A father who denies a child of his attention is no better than a fully-equipped medic who watches idly as a soldier bleeds to death. — Wes Fesler
What can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier? — Walter Scott
Let soldiers on manoeuvres plant trees. Give police and criminals a shovel and a thousand seedlings. — John Wright
You men of the einsatzgruppen are called upon to fulfill a repulsive duty. But you are soldiers who have to carry out every order unconditionally.… — Heinrich Himmler
The soldier does not wish to appear a coward, disloyal, or un-American. The situation has been so defined that he can see himself as patriotic,… — Stanley Milgram
Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty. — Sallust
Art is no longer snobbish or cowardly. It teaches peasants to use tractors, gives lyrics to young soldiers, designs textiles for factory women's dresses, writes… — Azar Nafisi
I looked upon a clock to find the truth. The hours were passing like ivory chess figures, striking piano notes, and the minutes raced on… — Anais Nin
Every time I look at Atlanta I see what a quarter of a million Confederate soldiers died to prevent. — John Shelton Reed
We feasted on love; every mode of it, solemn and merry, romantic and realistic, sometimes as dramatic as a thunderstorm, sometimes comfortable and unemphatic as… — C.S. Lewis
While I do not hesitate to applaud certain aspects of the resolution honoring the sacrifices of our courageous soldiers who are risking their lives in… — Ed Pastor
Millions of our fellow human beings continue to live as contemporary slaves, victims of abominable practices like human trafficking, forced labour and sexual exploitation. Countless… — Ban Ki-moon

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