Soldier Quotes
1362 Soldier quotes by 907 unique authors
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Soldiers must possess integrity in order to build trust and confidence in themselves, our leadership, and the American public. Among the things I've learned during…
— Glen E. Morrell
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The core of a soldier is moral discipline. It is intertwined with the discipline of physical and mental achievement. It motivates doing on your own…
— William G. Bainbridge
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Professional courage is the steel fiber that makes an NCO unafraid and willing to tell it like it is. The concept of professional courage does…
— William A. Connelly
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The greatness of our Army has always been the ability of our soldiers who serve in the ranks to rise to the challenge against the…
— Julius W. Gates
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The equipment and weaponry will continually change and improve, and the size of the military will expand as needed, decreasing during times of peace. But…
— George W. Dunaway
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In each succeeding war there is a tendency to proclaim as something new the principles under which it is conducted. Not only those who have…
— John J. Pershing
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There has been considerable comment over the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to a soldier. I am afraid this does not seem as remarkable…
— George C. Marshall
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I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.... Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects…
— Curtis LeMay
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To expect ... the same service from raw and undisciplined recruits, as from veteran soldiers, is to expect what never did and perhaps never will…
— George Washington
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Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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'Tis the soldier's life to have their balmy slumbers waked with strife.
— William Shakespeare
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What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and…
— Lord Byron
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It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live; before killing…
— Andre Gide
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We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are called heroes.
— Robert M. Hutchins
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These guys are not from the Iraqi army, ... These are not Iraqi soldiers. They are not members of any of the Iraqi armed forces.
— Al Capone
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War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists by cynics.
— Chris Hedges
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We are the ones responsible to determine whether the war that our marines, soldiers and airmen are fighting in is worth the cause...
— Scott Ritter
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To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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He who neither drinks, nor smokes, nor dances, he who preaches & even occasionally practice piety, temperance and celibacy, is generally a saint, or a…
— Sam Manekshaw
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Soldiers of the Reich! This day, you are to take part in an offensive of such importance that the whole future of the war may…
— Adolf Hitler
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The Chinese soldier was tough, brave, and experienced. After all he had been fighting on his own without help for years. He was a veteran…
— William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim
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The whole of northern Norway was covered with snow to depths which none of our soldiers had ever seen, felt, or imagined. There were neither…
— Winston Churchill
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Drinking is the soldier's pleasure.
— John Dryden
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American soldiers in battle don't fight for what some president says on T.V., they don't fight for mom, apple pie, the American flag...they fight for…
— Hal Moore
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Bacchus ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain. Bachus's blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure, Rich the treasure, Sweet the…
— John Dryden
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