Should Quote by Nick Flynn

The idea that somebody who has done something horrible in a war is not willing to talk about it for 32 years is hardly…

— Bob Kerrey

In war more than anywhere else, things do not turn out as we expect.

— Carl von Clausewitz

“The worst excuse a soldier can make for declining service is that he once ranked the commander he is ordered to report to.”

— Ulysses S. Grant

Excellent soldiers are not furious.

— Laozi

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

— Benjamin Franklin

“Why anyone should do so, knowing full well the dangers, was beyond the soldiers’ comprehension, but they had learned from past experience never to…

— James Herbert

The worst thing about this war is the chance it gives these dreadful little persons, the chance to make themselves important.

— Arthur Wimperis

I've learned our soldiers are so much like everybody else. They're just put into an extreme situation.

— Mary Gauthier

Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.

— George S. Patton

I know all the bad things that happened in that war. I was in uniform four years myself.

— Ronald Reagan

“It should surprise no one that modern soldiers return home just as conflicted and detached as previous generations. The difference is that in the…

— Tiffany Madison

Soldiers' bellies are not satisfied with empty promises and hopes.

— Peter the Great