Soldiers Quotes
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To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
The sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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Our main battle has always been against Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers.
Ahmed Yassin -
We should be proud of the soldiers who laid down their lives for our motherland. We should be proud of them.
Nirmala Sitharaman -
Everything will be all right. I know this room. Soldiers used to be quartered here. Now it's our turn.
Nur Muhammad Taraki -
Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives.
Siegfried Sassoon -
I believe German soldiers are good and decent, and if they did anything wrong it was because of military necessity.
Wilhelm Keitel -
Constant and pervasive danger makes agile movement a high priority for all soldiers, whether they are assigned directly to combat or not.
Niki Tsongas
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America does not like losers. Look how we treated those soldiers who came back from Vietnam. Because they lost. America likes winners.
Paul Mooney -
May God bless and keep all soldiers, young and old, and may that same God open the eyes of all political leaders to the truth that most wars are a confession of failure—the failure of diplomacy and negotiation and common sense and, in most cases, of leadership.
Hal Moore -
In Love's service, only wounded soldiers can serve.
Brennan Manning -
Good soldiers, bad officers; however don't forget that without them we would not have any Civilization.
Erwin Rommel -
Their orders were to draw the newly arrived Americans into battle and search for the flaws in their thinking that would allow a Third World army of peasant soldiers who traveled by foot and fought at the distant end of a two-month-long supply line of porters not only to survive and persevere, but ultimately to prevail in the war—which was, for them, entering a new phase.
Hal Moore -
Japan is formally apologizing and admitting the state was responsible for the system of comfort stations or brothels for soldiers in which mostly teenage girls were expected to service 60 to 70 men a day. That is from a U.N. report.
Elise Hu
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The moon gives you light, and the bugles and the drums give you music, and my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans, my heart gives you love.
Walt Whitman -
Having observed that 75 percent of severely wounded soldiers on the Italian front did not request morphine, a surgeon by the name of Henry K. Beecher speculated that “strong emotions can block pain."
Bessel van der Kolk -
We have diverted soldiers from other organizations to fill our high-priority, war-fighting formations, ... Second, we have, for years, mortgaged our future readiness -- this modernization effort -- in order to assure that our soldiers had, in the near-term, what it takes to fight and win decisively.
Eric Shinseki -
Soldiers out here have kept us safe for so long, that there is essentially no real danger in this society.
Bill Whittle -
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 horse. Nobility is not a birthright, but is defined by one's actions.
Kevin Costner -
Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.
Siegfried Sassoon
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In the military, when the enemy turned on the enemy, they called it “red on red.” Soldiers didn’t have to pretend to be sad about it.
Edward Conlon -
'Beasts of No Nation' began when I read an article about child soldiers in Sierra Leone during my final year of high school.
Uzodinma Iweala -
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 not soldiers and that crimes were committed of which I had no knowledge.
Ernst Kaltenbrunner -
We are the ones responsible to determine whether the war that our marines, soldiers and airmen are fighting in is worth the cause.
Scott Ritter