Soldier Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Soldier Quotes from famous persons: Ruth Rendell, Fritz Sauckel, Zachary Taylor, Jack Lowden, Mark Esper. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Soldier Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.

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My favourite book - 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Fo

My favourite book – ‘The Good Soldier’ by Ford Madox Ford, which I have read about 20 times – is different from my favourite author, who is Iris Murdoch. I find her books exciting and unputdownable. Her characters are so carefully studied and in-depth; I love that.
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I had repeatedly made written requests to the Fuehrer that I might be allowed to join the Wehrmacht as an ordinary soldier. He refused to give me this permission.
Fritz Sauckel
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My wife was as much of a soldier as I was.
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If you speak to any soldier, even now, they say they are fighting for their friends. It always ends up that they’re fighting for the man next to them.
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AI will allow the soldier to act and think much more quickly. Whoever gets to AI first, I believe, will have dominance for many years afterward.
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My mother said to me, ‘If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.’ Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
Patrick MacGill
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Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
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I read ‘The Good Soldier’ by Ford Madox Ford again every so often.
Ned Beauman
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What battle has ever been won by staying in camp and talking to your fellow soldier?
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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.
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I wear my lines like a soldier wears his medals. They’ve been earned. They’ve been fought for – so there’s no reason to be ashamed of them. In your 50s, you just care less about that sort of thing. I think it’s to do with what’s inside you. You can’t obsess about the outside.
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The most important thing is to never give up, never give in to circumstances, believe yourself, and to soldier on, no matter what’s in your way.
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You wouldnt believe how much I got paid for Soldier Soldier after a TV exec drunkenly told me that they couldnt make it without me.
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‘The Dictatorlands somewhere between wan Mel Brooks and good Adam Sandler, whose ‘You Don’t Mess With the Zohan,’ about an Israeli Special Forces soldier at a hair salon, manages to strike better contrasts with vaguely similar culture differences – it’s a nuttier movie, too.
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Our training is world-class across all the services. We spend an awful lot on every soldier, sailor, airman, Marine, Coast Guardsman that comes in, and we ask them to do an awful lot, sometimes more than we expect of ourselves, and they do that.
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When I got the script for ‘Winter Soldier,’ I was so excited to see that my character finally gets to punch somebody! So I took tae kwon do three times a week. I wanted to feel like I could hold my own in a roomful of superheroes.
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The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.
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The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind.
Samuel E. Morison
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When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan‘s plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.
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I’m a fan of FKA Twigs, The Weeknd. I love that kind of ambient R&B. I feel like it’s just another soldier in the war to blur the lines and make things to where it’s good music and bad music.
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The American soldier is quick in adapting himself to a new mode of living. Outfits which have been here only three days have dug vast networks of ditches three feet deep in the bare brown earth. They have rigged up a light here and there with a storage battery.
Ernie Pyle
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I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
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On June 23, 1864, Ambrose Bierce was in command of a skirmish line of Union soldiers at Kennesaw Mountain in northern Georgia. He’d been a soldier for three years and, in that time, had been commended by his superiors for his efficiency and bravery during battle.
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My parents, they grew up in a time when there was war in Korea. And my grandmother, her husband, my grandfather, was a soldier and he died in the war. A lot of people in that generation, they didn’t go to schools. My grandmother couldn’t read; she didn’t finish beyond elementary school.
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In my village, Kharkara, 20 km from Rohtak, I would work in our fields of sugarcane, wheat and paddy while dreaming of the day I would join the army, and receive a hero‘s welcome every time I came home on leave. In our part of the world, a soldier is a star.
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Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
Otto von Bismarck
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I wasn’t the biggest Captain America fan, but increasingly, I see him as a great character. Winter Soldier really got into what it meant to actually represent America.
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More than half the combat deaths in Vietnam occurred after Richard Nixon was elected on a promise to bring the war to an end, and after the American people had already decided that they did not want one more soldier to die in Vietnam.
Raul Grijalva
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My father fought on the side of the Central Powers, as a soldier in the Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Army, my maternal grandfather fought in the British Army, on different sides, and both were so traumatized by the experience that they never talked about it.
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A lot of us in Slipknot, we get to go to wounded soldier hospitals where soldiers have lost their limbs. That’s surreal. It’s even more surreal to talk to them about your band. They’re talking to you about war and losing their limbs, and at same time, they’re talking about their favorite album, these kind of things.
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It is made the duty of every Commanding Officer in the Department, to arrest and send to these Headquarters, under guard, every officer or soldier who may be found absent from his command, without the regular leave in writing, prescribed by Regulations and General Orders.
John Hunt Morgan
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When I was a child, my mother said to me, ‘If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general. If you become a monk, you’ll end up as the Pope.’ Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
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Coming up through the ranks of any calling can be rough, but that battered soul who survives the early years of courting the comic muse comes close to knowing what only the soldier knows: What combat is like.
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It seems as if everybody in the country was getting impatient to get his or her particular soldier out of the Army and to upset the carefully arranged system of points for retirement which we had arranged with the approval of the Army itself.
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A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
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The front-line soldier wants it to be got over by the physical process of his destroying enough Germans to end it. He is truly at war. The rest of us, no matter how hard we work, are not.
Ernie Pyle
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I am shocked at the attitude of our American troops. They have no respect for death, the courage of an enemy soldier, or many of the ordinary decencies of life.
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Patriotism is often the cry extolled when morally questionable acts are advocated by those in power. When these cries of patriotism drown out any logically based dissension, it is usually the American soldier that is given the order to carry out some ill-conceived mission.
Chelsea Manning
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I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?
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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.
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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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The story of a proud Roman soldier who is sold into slavery and must fight his way back to freedom, ‘Gladiator‘ suggests what would happen if someone made a movie of the imminent extreme-football league and shot it as if it were a Chanel commercial.
44
I want to be a soldier as my father was.
Kaspar Hauser
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I am a member of the Peace Society because I was a soldier: because I have fought and seen what war is like from personal experience. It was on the battlefield that I pledged myself to the cause of peace.
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
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I’m an excellent soldier and a good strategist. I love to fight.
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For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but in your essence you remain a nomad or a soldier facing a difficulty to be overcome.
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There’s nothing like being a soldier for confidence or learning your limits or enduring utter humiliation.
Guy Davenport
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Every true Christian is a soldier – of Christ – a hero ‘par excellence‘! Braver than the bravest – scorning the soft seductions of peace and her oft-repeated warnings against hardship, disease, danger, and death, whom he counts among his bosom friends.
Charles Studd
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Much of the music I remember from camp was unofficial: the songs a counselor would play for us on acoustic guitar or that an older camper would sing after telling us a tale of his hard-knock life. We couldn’t get enough of ‘One Tin Soldier’ or ‘Cat’s in the Cradle.’
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The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian.
William Gurnall
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If you put on the military uniform, you’re a prima facie hero. Generals are the epitome of that. They’re the ones who have been most successful at the soldier’s trade.
53
It takes a real soldier to stay in the music industry and live off the things that have been put before me and be able to survive all this time because it has not been easy.
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I’m an American working for America. Anything we do is to support U.S. policy. You know the definition of a mercenary is a professional soldier that works in the pay of a foreign army. I’m an American working for America.
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If you look at Victorian England, being a soldier was considered a noble profession.
56
Doolittle looked just like a little toy soldier the first time I ever saw him.
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One of the things that makes our military the best in the world is the certain knowledge of each soldier, sailor, airman, and Marine that they can always count on their comrades should they need help – that they will never be abandoned.
Jon Kyl
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The sensors have many potential practical uses – in Government buildings, train carriages, cargo containers, on a soldier’s lapel – and are a thousand times cheaper than current sensors that are used for the same purpose.
Anne Campbell
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We must differentiate between guilt and duty. The soldier on the front, like the common man, who does his duty everywhere, should not be held responsible for the actions of a few who also called themselves Germans.
Oskar Schindler
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I mean, Emily Harris was his wife. And she seemed to resent his leadership, but on the other hand, she felt like a good soldier, that he had to be the leader.
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Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier.
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When people know you’ve been a soldier, they judge you: you are a thief, a lost boy.
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I don’t imagine Heads of Government would ever be able to say I’m not an economist therefore I can’t take decisions on matters of the economy; I’m not a soldier I can’t take decisions on matters of defence; I’m not an educationist so I can’t take decisions about education.
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The scene was not a happy one yet we looked upon it in the cold stoical spirit of a soldier; a slight chilling pang and then a return soul and body to the enemy before us.
Knute Nelson
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A soldier of fortune with twisted tongue will come to pillage the sanctuary of the gods; To the heretics he will open the gate, thus stirring up the Church militant.
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In ‘Falling Skies,’ I was playing a soldier and a fighter, and then, when I was taken captive, you’re still in this post-apocalyptic world.
Jessy Schram
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I suppose that Heartland, Unknown Soldier and Pride and Joy represent not a quieter side but more of a serious side to my work, something I’ve been getting into recently.
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I understand the risks associated with being a soldier. But I think as members of Congress, we should not intensify the chance that we’ll have to commit troops to a military conflict unless it’s absolutely necessary to defend the nation.
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I appeal to you as a soldier to spare me the humiliation of seeing my regiment march to meet the enemy and I not share its dangers.
George Armstrong Custer
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The landmine is eternally prepared to take victims. In common parlance, it is the perfect soldier, the ‘eternal sentry.’ The war ends, the landmine goes on killing.
Jody Williams
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As a soldier, I stand ready to serve and protect and defend this country. And as a soldier, I know the cost of war. And as president and commander-in-chief, I will end these regime-change wars.
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When we first met, I was probably six layers down in the military structure, but General McChrystal at that time was a soldier’s leader, and he was part of the task force. So everyone developed close relationships.
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The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn’t really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn’t going to compose Beethoven‘s Fifth.
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We have a responsibility as ex-soldiers to realise we’re no longer in the military. All this ‘once a soldier, always a soldier’, that’s all well and good, but that attitude doesn’t work in society.
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Not much over £1,000 a month for the private soldier on operations is hardly an impressive figure.
Mike Jackson
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I was born in a family with a strong military background, so I chose to be a soldier.
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My father being a soldier, every time I saw soldiers marching – ‘Well,’ I thought, ‘my father’s that,’ and these soldiers were always looking magnificent. And I thought they were powerful; they were all-powerful. I knew that they were an elite in India.
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Moreover, broad plans commensurate with our national purpose and resources would bring conviction of our power to every soldier in the front line, to the nations associated with us in the war, and to the enemy.
Kelly Miller
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I could not have the honour of being a German soldier because of my imprisonment in the First World War. And in this world war the Fuehrer refuses to allow me to serve as a soldier.
Fritz Sauckel
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I didn’t hear anybody talking about the plight of a soldier coming back home and what he’d gone through. That was why I wrote about that stuff. If somebody else had done it, I probably wouldn’t have touched the subject.
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Every American soldier wants as much public support as he can possibly have. That’s the soldiers on duty in Iraq, and that’s me, as well. We fight better knowing that our people back home support us, back us, and understand what we’re doing. It’s hugely important.
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Landmines distinguish themselves because once they have been sown, once the soldier walks away from the weapon, the landmine cannot tell the difference between a soldier or a civilian – a woman, a child, a grandmother going out to collect firewood to make the family meal.
Jody Williams
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‘The Wall‘ doesn’t recount a specific soldier’s experience in Iraq, but it captures the spirit of many experiences that were shared with me and with Aaron TaylorJohnson and with John Cena.
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A common soldier will make an empire, but he will eventually meet his fate and be condemned to the Great Rock.
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A computer can process information and engage a weapon infinitely faster than a human soldier.
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I always played a soldier, sailor, or policemen.
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That was one thing that we learned, that the Klan was making an active recruitment pitch to the armed forces – not just in Colorado Springs, but in other parts of the country as well. With trained military personnel who share that ideology, you know you have a valuable soldier at your disposal.
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The weapon of the advocate is the sword of the soldier, not the dagger of the assassin.
Alexander Cockburn
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‘The Good Soldier’ is an odd and maybe even unique book. That it is a masterpiece, almost a perfect novel, comes as a repeated surprise even to readers who have read it before.
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If the Europeans want to intervene, that’s their business. But if I were president, I would remove every United States soldier from the Balkan peninsula.
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I wholeheartedly rejected anything remotely feminine but was not enthusiastic about anything masculine, either. I did not want to cook and have babies, and I did not want to be an engineer or a baseball player or a soldier or a politician or any of the myriad careers open mostly or solely to men. I wanted to be a poet.
Pamela Dean
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One of the things that I really admire about the Marvel motion pictures is that, in one year, ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier,’ which was a taut political thriller, and ‘Guardians of the Galaxy,’ which was a cosmic comedy, came out, and they could not be more different, and yet they both felt very Marvel.
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It’s hard for me to imagine that some people in the CIA who had firsthand knowledge would be unable to recognize that this would be helpful information for a soldier’s death.
Christopher Shays
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Everybody has adversity in their lives and we all have to find ways of overcoming them. You’ve got to soldier on, make the best of it, look for the positive in everything.
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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
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I joined the People’s Armed Forces in 1961 to 1984, and I was also a soldier in the southern battle of Vietnam during the resistance against the Americans. I went to the battlefield in order to regain national independence.
Nguyen Tan Dung
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President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn’t kill anybody and he didn’t get anyone killed.
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If you look on the fungal genome as being soldier candidates protecting the U.S. as our host defense, not only for the ecosystem but for our population… we should be saving our old-growth forests as a matter of national defense.
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Any child soldier has to go through a lot of love, care and understanding to become normal.
100
It’s hard to say things without coming off in a certain way, but at a young age, I felt very driven. All I ever wanted to be is a soldier of cinema.
101
I crossed paths with a horse that happened to change my life. That horse is Game On Dude, and what a horse! He’s a soldier. Together we traveled the world. We won the Santa Anita Big Cap, Goodwood, almost won the Breeder’s Cup Classic; we won the San Antonio, Hollywood Gold Cup and the Californian.
102
I think women in general, we just soldier on. Whatever it takes, you just have to do it. It’s your job. Whatever it is.
103
It takes a real man to make a true confession – a Chocolate Soldier will excuse or cloak his sin.
Charles Studd
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I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.
105
In general, just as a framing, we always thought about ‘Winter Soldier’ very specifically as a political thriller.
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Lawmakers are scandalized when they see a soldier, but they were not scandalized when gang members entered the Legislative Assembly to negotiate the lives of Salvadorans.
107
Let the Palestinians run their affairs: create a situation in which no Israeli soldier will have to maintain public order, whether in Gaza or the West Bank. Let’s give it to the Palestinians, as long as there is security for us. No more occupying another people.
108
In the grand scheme of things, fighting people in the cage is not that big of a deal, I know. It’s not a hero profession even though its treated as one. It’s not being a soldier or police officer or paramedic of firefighter or anything.
109
If every soldier is authorized to make one mistake, then we lose the war.
110
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
111
I, Philip Kearny, an old soldier, enter my solemn protest against this order for retreat.
Philip Kearny
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Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had disintegrated.
George Grosz
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For me, at least, Vietnam was partly love. With each step, each light-year of a second, a foot soldier is always almost dead, or so it feels, and in such circumstances, you can’t help but love.
114
In the Army, I was running for India and I was a soldier who could have died for India.
115
When I did A Soldier’s Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!
116
It’s an amazing thing to hear they’re finally giving out a Medal of Honor to a soldier from the wars of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Tim Hetherington
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The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.
Stonewall Jackson
118
Every lover is a soldier.
119
I was a good soldier in the British Army. I was born in a very, very poor family. And I enlisted to escape hunger. But my officers were Scottish and they loved me. The Scots are good, you know.
Idi Amin
120
Somehow I feel a little bit odd in Tiananmen Square because I was a soldier, in a uniform, watching those leaders and tanks, and I was part of them.
121
I can’t avoid the interest in the fact that I’m an injured female soldier.
122
I believe Israel needs branding. I want that the word ‘Israel’ will relate not just to an Israeli soldier or a camel, but Israel as an advanced liberal society with a strong economy and great people.
123
You know, I had grown up standing on public sidewalks, saying things that people, you know, were very provoked by and were upset by. And – but standing outside that first soldier’s funeral, it was eerily quiet.
124
I was born as a soldier and will die as one.
125
I learned about life before I went into the theater, which is why I’ve been so happy. I was a soldier.
126
As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.
127
Apart from the fact that any hardy exercise conduces much to the training and formation of a soldier, pig-sticking tends to give a man what is called a ‘stalker’s eye,’ but which, par excellence, is the soldier’s eye.
128
The De Bernieres were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier.
Louis de Bernieres
129
Any soldier deployed overseas will think fondly of home. It is only right and fair that they are able to settle back into a home life once they leave their service.
130
Sometimes we might feel that a soldier’s duty is to protect us and he doesn’t have any emotions, but he has. He is vulnerable and close to his family just like us. But what makes him different from us is the fact that he has the will to die so that we are safe.
131
Being a soldier, fighting for this country, is neither Republican nor Democrat.
Max Cleland
132
No one hates war like a soldier hates war.
Tommy Franks
133
I said jokingly that if you bat like a king, you should also get out like a king; you should not be dismissed like a soldier. If you have made runs aggressively, then you will get out that way, too. That’s how it is.
134
I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier.
Andrei Platonov
135
The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession.
Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
136
I’m constantly not on the right side of history. I sympathize with the soldiers in the enemy’s camp. For example in WWII, we know the Nazis and the Japanese were wrong. But I sympathize with the individual story of a soldier who was drafted into that.
137
A lot of people don’t believe I was a soldier. They look at my luscious hair and wacky bow-tie collection and immediately put me down as some kind of supernatural geek.
138
I’ve got to tell you what, the soldier doesn’t fight very hard for a leader who is going to shoot him, okay, on his own whim. That’s not what military leadership is all about.
139
I was really sad after ‘The Avengers‘ when I realized I was not going to have a part in ‘Thor 2’ or ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier.’ But I’m not arguing with my fantastic plane and my really cool car.
140
Ishmael Beah was born and spent his childhood in Sierra Leone as that sad but beautiful West African country was ravaged by a civil war that left some 50,000 dead between 1991 and 2002. He was a child soldier for a while, then, through extraordinary circumstances, was set free of that life.
Carolyn See
141
My hope is that ‘Blk Girl Soldier’ is a freedom song for black women today who are fighting the macro- and microaggressions of daily life in our city/country/world.
142
A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.
143
I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
144
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
145
I thought of myself as a soldier who was going to law school.
146
The entire deaths of Vietnam died in vain. And they’re dying in vain right this very second. And you know what’s worse than a soldier dying in vain? It’s more soldiers dying in vain. That’s what’s worse.
Mike Gravel
147
In the story I eventually called ‘Archangel’ and published in 2008, Eudora MacEachern, working as an assistant to a surgeon at a hospital in Archangel, one night finds outside the gates an exhausted and frostbitten soldier crouched over the reins of a pony sleigh carrying the body of another soldier.
148
What drew me to the character is that Roberto Duran is the son of an American soldier – a Marine – stationed in Panama and a humble Panamanian mother, and he was abandoned.
149
When we train a horse to do a certain job, we’re training the horse to be like a soldier, and yes, he still has a spirit, and he still has his ideas, but he is a disciplined soldier, and in the end, he will follow the rider‘s instruction to do what needs to be done.
Ian Millar
150
Every soldier should learn survival on land, sea, and in the air.
Louis Zamperini
151
I became a soldier, not because I had a military vocation initially, but because it was the only way that that young, poor-class child from the provinces could go to the center of the country: through baseball, which was my dream.