Soldier Quotes

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Real freedom will come when U.S. soldiers in Iraq turn their guns on their superiors. — John Daly
In Vietnam, our soldiers came back and they were reviled as baby killers, in shame and humiliation. It isn't happening now, but I will tell… — Seymour Hersh
The scum of the earth... but what fine soldiers we have made them. — Duke of Wellington
Armed Soldier, terrible as Death, relentless as Doom; doing God's judgement on the Enemies of God. It is a phenomenon not of joyful nature; no,… — Thomas Carlyle
Compare the scale and magnifcence of Versailles with St James's - the brick-built hovel in which the 18th-century kings of England lived. What was then… — David Starkey
The most common way to identify a soldier is by the disc around his neck. But these were made of compressed cardboard and so they've… — Chris Roberts
I feel uncomfortable about the word hero because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more war. Um, and,… — Chris Hayes
And to me, it was interesting, some of the people I had interviewed who knew the insides to this program said that they also, to… — Jane Mayer
A soldier's life revolves around his mail. Like many others, I've been able to follow my kid's progress from the day he was born until… — Bill Mauldin
I had repeatedly made written requests to the Fuehrer that I might be allowed to join the Wehrmacht as an ordinary soldier. He refused to… — Fritz Sauckel
I could not have the honour of being a German soldier because of my imprisonment in the First World War. And in this world war… — Fritz Sauckel
At some point my friends and I began to ask, how can a country that produced hippies and such cool people also fight a war… — Nguyen Qui Duc
The most basic barrier was language itself, very few Americans in Iraq whether soldiers or diplomats or news paper reporters could speak more than a… — Unknown Author
The word 'hero' has been bandied about a lot to refer to anyone killed in Afghanistan or Iraq. But anyone who voluntarily goes to Afghanistan… — Ted Rall
Part of a soldier's duty is to fill gaps...one must be willing to be nothing, as something. — Amy Carmichael
I was raised to believe that soldiers were strong and wise and brave and faithful; they didn't lie, cheat, steal or abandon their comrades. — Stanley A. McChrystal
A North Korean soldier would later recall a buddy who had been given an American-made nail clipper and was showing it off to his friends.… — Barbara Demick
Wars damage the civilian society as much as they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it. — Paul Fussell
I know a thousand things louder than a soldier's gun; I know the heartbeat of his mother. — Andrea Gibson
The indictment knocked me on the head. First of all, I hand no idea at all about 90 per cent of the accusations in it.… — Alfred Jodl
My name is Mankiller, and in the old Cherokee Nation, when we lived here in the Southeast, we lived in semi-autonomous villages, and there was… — Wilma Mankiller
In previous armies, soldiers used their time to clean their weapons and stock up on ammunition. Our weapons are words, and we may need our… — Subcomandante Marcos
What makes the strength of the soldier isn't the energy he uses trying to intimidate the other guy by sending him a whole lot of… — Muriel Barbery
Good soldiers are defined by what they can endure, not by what they can inflict. — Gregory David Roberts
Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that's been our unifying cry, 'More light.' Sunlight. Torchlight. Candlelight. Neon, incandescent lights that banish the… — Diane Frolov

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