Soldier Quotes
1362 Soldier quotes by 907 unique authors
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The soldiers of Saddam Hussein have given them a lesson they will never forget
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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I'd like to have two armies: one for display with lovely guns, tanks, little soldiers, staffs, distinguished and doddering generals, and dear little regimental officers…
— Jean Larteguy
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You may fly over a land forever; you may bomb it, atomize it, and wipe it clean of life - but if you desire to…
— T. R. Fehrenbach
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I am not fond of speaking about politics because I don't have in my possession an army of 200,000 soldiers.
— Franz Liszt
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Hey, we're like soldiers. Would you go to the Roman army and ask them if they thought they were going to win the battle? If…
— Ken Simonton
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I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by men who were…
— Ernst Kaltenbrunner
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I have seen soldiers panic at the first sight of battle, and a squire pulling arrows from his body to fight and save his dying…
— Kevin Costner
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Look to the souls of Your own soldiers, God, who labor in Thine awful cause.
— Janet Morris
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Three-quarters of a soldier's life is spent in aimlessly waiting about.
— Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
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China has no income tax, no unemployment and not a single soldier outside its borders.
— Zhou Enlai
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Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war.
— Allan Massie
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Woe to me if I should prove myself but a halfhearted soldier in the service of my thorn-crowned Captain.
— Fidelis of Sigmaringen
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Military tactics are like unto water; for water in its natural course runs away from high places and hastens downwards... Water shapes its course according…
— Sun Tzu
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Throw your soldiers into positions whence there is no escape, and they will prefer death to flight. If they will face death, there is nothing…
— Sun Tzu
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When they remain in garrison, soldiers are maintained with fear and punishment; when they are then led to war, with hope and reward.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Never lead your soldiers to battle if you have not first confirmed their spirit and known them to be without fear and ordered; and never…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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I would like to suggest that our minds are swamped by too much study and by too much matter just as plants are swamped by…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Our present educational systems are all paramilitary. Their aim is to produce servants or soldiers who obey without question and who accepts their training as…
— John Fowles
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I came to Ottawa with the firm belief that the only people in this country who should have guns are police officers and soldiers.
— Allan Rock
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Discipline is no longer literal obedience but intelligent obedience, for discipline aims at obedience coupled with activity of will. Once discipline weakens and vanishes, as…
— J F C Fuller
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That was not the biggest battle that ever was, but for me it always typified one thing; the dash, the ingenuity, the readiness at the…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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A brave captain is as a root, out of which, as branches, the courage of his soldiers doth spring.
— Philip Sidney
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Die never for a god, Nikodemos who should know better - not your soldiers' god, nor any other.
— Janet Morris
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The rulling to kill the Americans and their allies - civilians and military - is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it…
— Osama bin Laden
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There's only one way for a professional soldier to die. That's from the last bullet of the last battle of the last war.
— George S. Patton
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