Soldier Quotes
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According to U.S. strategy, if you never see the other, his destruction will be more acceptableso that when Iraqi soldiers surrendered, sooner than expected, it was as if they emerged from a dream, a flash-back, a lost epoch--an epoch when the enemy still had a body and was still "like us.
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Not much over £1,000 a month for the private soldier on operations is hardly an impressive figure.
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The worse the man, the better the soldier.
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We are soldiers, Highness. We understand tomorrow could be the last day. Or the day after. A soldier has so little control over the time or manner of his ending. He can always choose how he faces it.
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The soldier's body becomes a stock of accessories that are not his property.
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The hour is fast approaching, on which the Honor and Success of this army, and the safety of our bleeding Country depend. Remember officers and Soldiers, that you are Freemen, fighting for the blessings of Liberty - that slavery will be your portion, and that of your posterity, if you do not acquit yourselves like men.
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In order to be a good soldier it is necessary to know how to dance.
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I'm not a political person. When I start to get into it, it just upsets me. I feel so powerless when it comes to politics. So I've just decided to be non-political and very, very pro-soldier.
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Vanity is so anchored in the heart of man that a soldier, a soldier's servant, a cook, a porter brags and wishes to have his admirers. Even philosophers wish for them. Those who write against vanity want to have the glory of having written well; and those who read it desire the glory of having read it. I who write this have perhaps this desire, and perhaps those who will read it.
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I sincerely believe that I have served a criminal. I led my soldiers in good conscience... but for a criminal government.
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The General hopes and trusts that every officer and man will endeavor to live and act as becomes a Christian soldier defending the dearest rights and liberties of his country.
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It isn't right to be obedient only when things go well; it is much harder to be a good, obedient soldier when things go badly and times are hard. Obedience and faith at such time is a virtue.
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I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers.
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All you have to do is hold your first soldier who is dying in your arms, and have that terribly futile feeling that I can't do anything about it... Then you understand the horror of war.
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I remember when I was a private soldier. I remember the days when I was taken care of and when I was not taken care of.
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The issue of torture, connected to American soldiers, is not somewhere most people want to linger. We may not want to confront this issue so much in the U.S. because of how we want to think about our veterans. There's the sense that we want to think of our veterans as - if they're damaged, damaged by something glamorous, like a firefight.
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Sharpe is my favorite role of all that I've played. He's a very complex character. He knows that he's a good soldier, but he will always have to fight the prejudice of aristocratic officers because of his rough working-class upbringing. On the battlefield, he's full of confidence - but off it, he is unsure, a bit shy and ill at ease.
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They [US soldiers] started to commit suicide on the Baghdad walls. We will encourage them to double their suicide attempts.
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When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.
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I had been in that part of the world as a soldier in Korea, so I had been interested in Vietnam.
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In time of revolution, with perseverance and courage, a soldier should think nothing impossible.
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No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.
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The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian.
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When it comes to the challenges of the actual process, I soldier on as best I can, on my own.
