Accepting Quote by Shirley Chisholm

Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they've been given.

— Orson Scott Card

Good soldiers are defined by what they can endure, not by what they can inflict.

— Gregory David Roberts

Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good.

— Bernard Law Montgomery

To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

We've all made bad decisions, but they haven't always been resulting in the deaths of innocent people.

— Bruce Campbell

Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting…

— John Keegan

There must be some good in the life of battle, for so many good men have enjoyed being soldiers.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and if you let that bother…

— Curtis LeMay

To be a good soldier, you must love the army. To be a good commander, you must be willing to order the death of…

— Robert E. Lee

Even a good decision if made for the wrong reasons can be a wrong decision.

— Jonathan Pryce

As soldiers we have few saving graces. Perhaps our willingness to die for what we believe in is all that matters.

— Leo Gordon

You don't really want an army of people making individual decisions. And I don't think I completely understood that until people gave me examples…

— Joel Stein