Common Quote by Orson Scott Card

So the whole of war, when you look at it is probably run by professional soldiers, and the rest of them are just recruits,…

— Gerald Scarfe

Each man's life is a kind of campaign, and a long and complicated one at that. You have to maintain the character of a…

— Epictetus

It is soldiers who pay most of the human cost. In war it is extraordinary how it all comes down to the character of…

— Creighton W. Abrams, Jr

An army must inevitably consist of the scum of the people and all those for which society has no use.

— Count of St. Germain

Without an army for the people, there is nothing for the people.

— Mao Zedong

Every soldier is an enemy.

— Erno Paasilinna

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

— Thomas Jefferson

“To confine soldiers to purely military functions while urgent and vital tasks have to be done, and nobody else is available to undertake them,…

— David Galula

We want the Army to be society's model of fair treatment. We want to assure that all soldiers are treated fairly, not because it…

— Silas L. Copeland

Let every man remind their descendants that they also are soldiers who must not desert the ranks of their ancestors, or from cowardice fall…

— Plato

A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.

— George Bernard Shaw

“Our people are not calculated to be confined in garrisons or kept in any particular service; they soon grow troublesome and uneasy by reflecting…

— Richard M. Ketchum