Monday 1 May 2017

Soldiers Sayings and Quotes



Soldiers usually win the battles and generals get the credit for them.

Napoleon Bonaparte






The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

Douglas Macarthur





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 the task go until it's been done.    

John Keegan





With courage and character, American soldiers continue to put themselves on the line to defend our freedom, and so many have paid the ultimate sacrifice.    

Dan Lipinski






Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.    

P. J. O'Rourke





One doesn't become a soldier in a week - it takes training, study and discipline.There is no question that the finest Army in the world is found in the United States.    

Daniel Inouye





Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.    

Siegfried Sassoon





The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession.    

Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus





To be a soldier one needs that special gene, that extra something, that enables a person to jump into one on one combat, something, after all, that is unimaginable to most of us, as we are simply not brave enough.    

Rupert Everett






Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and if you let that bother you, you're not a good soldier.

Curtis LeMay





A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

Napoleon Bonaparte





Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

Douglas Macarthur





Soldiers willingly, sometimes foolishly, risk their own lives to keep their comrades out of enemy hands.

Alex Berenson





Everyone knows what can happen to soldiers who are in front line units.

Richard Engel





All soldiers who serve their country and put their lives at risk need to know that if something happens to them, their families will be well taken care of. That's the bond we have with our military men and women and their families.

Jeff Sessions





A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.    

Georg C. Lichtenberg





Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.

Norman Schwarzkopf





That soldiers do terrible things during wartime should not surprise us.    

Nick Flynn





You cannot expect soldiers to change people's minds. That has to be done in other ways.

Mike Jackson





Every soldier should learn survival on land, sea, and in the air.

Louis Zamperini





Our soldiers and their families are benefiting. They deserve good, quality housing and they need it.    

Jim Walsh





I think soldiers are not just one homogenous group, just like Americans aren't. They all have different feelings about the war.    

Emily Robison





Being a soldier, fighting for this country, is neither Republican nor Democrat.

Max Cleland





The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.

Napoleon Bonaparte





A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.

Norman Schwarzkopf





There's something about an American soldier you can't explain. They're so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them.

Marlene Dietrich





The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.

Edward Gibbon





Soldiers are men...most apt for all manner of services and best able to support and endure the infinite toils and continual hazards of war.    

Henry Knyvett





A soldier is he whose blood makes the glory of the general.

Henry G. Bohn





Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely and systematically that might is not right.    

G. K. Chesterton




Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.

Euripides





If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.    

Sun Tzu





Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.

Lois McMaster Bujold





Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.    

Franz Grillparzer






The most vital quality a soldier can possess is self-confidence, utter, complete and bumptious.    

George Patton






You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges: the old ones, grub.    

George Bernard Shaw





When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.

Frederic Bastiat





If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army.

Frederick The Great





Our soldiers have nobly fought to protect freedom since our country's birth, and have fought to protect those that could not protect themselves, even in foreign lands when called upon.    

John Linder





I mean the only thing us dead soldiers got in common is that none of us was good enough or lucky enough to survive the fight. We're a host of failures.

Steven Erikson






I believe German soldiers are good and decent, and if they did anything wrong it was because of military necessity.    

Wilhelm Keitel





The soldier's heart, the soldier's spirit, the soldier's soul, are everything. Unless the soldier's soul sustains him he cannot be relied on and will fail himself and his commander and his country in the end.    

George Marshall





Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.    

Ulysses S. Grant





Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives.

Siegfried Sassoon





I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.

General George S. Patton





The soldier's main enemy is not the opposing soldier, but his own commander.    

Ramman Kenoun





Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier.    

William Lyon Mackenzie King





To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.    

Patrick MacGill





Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.    

Allan Massie






Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.

Bernard Law Montgomery

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