Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ned Beauman

I read 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford again every so often.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Gold will not always get you good soldiers, but good soldiers can get you gold.

Joe Conason

I have never understood why the politicians who are most eager to send soldiers into harm's way are always depicted as their most ardent friends.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is nothing proper about what you are doing, soldier, but do try to kill me properly.

Kathryn Bigelow

For some individuals - some soldiers, some contractors - combat provides a kind of purpose and meaning beyond which all else potentially pales in comparison.

P. J. O'Rourke

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.

Pablo Picasso

When German soldiers used to come to my studio and look at my pictures of Guernica, they'd ask 'Did you do this?'. And I'd say, 'No, you did.'

Mark Twain

By and by when each nation has 20,000 battleships and 5,000,000 soldiers we shall all be safe and the wisdom of statesmanship will stand confirmed.

Ozzy Osbourne

Unholy soldier, disciple of sin, what kind of mind are you living in?

Ovid

Every lover is a soldier.

George C. Wallace

Zeal is ever the buckler and shield of a true soldier.

Chris Roberts

The most common way to identify a soldier is by the disc around his neck. But these were made of compressed cardboard and so they've all but disappeared.

Jan Schakowsky

all of our soldiers still don't have up-armored Humvees.

Heinrich Heine

Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.

Henry Fielding

The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Which is heavier: a soldier's pack or a slave's chains?

Om Puri

Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.

Oliver Cromwell

On becoming soldiers we have not ceased to be citizens.

Michael Caine

I learned about life before I went into the theater, which is why I've been so happy. I was a soldier.

Michael Caine

I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.

Mark Driscoll

Study the Bible like a soldier on a mission, not a scholar on a sabbatical.

John McCain

...(W)e lose when by official policy or by official negligence we allow, confuse or encourage our soldiers to forget . . . that which is our greatest strength: that we are different and better than our enemies.

Sergei Ivanov

It is painful to talk about it, but even with its 110,000 elite soldiers, the Soviet Union never managed to gain control over the entire Afghan territory.

Siegfried Sassoon

I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers.

Sebastian Junger

The only thing that makes battle psychologically tolerable is the brotherhood among soldiers. You need each other to get by.

Sitting Bull

I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.

Jacque Fresco

Lack of education turns soldiers into killing machines.

Plato

Now nothing can be more important than that the work of a soldier should be well done.

Laini Taylor

What can a soldier do when mercy is treason, and he is alone in it?

John Ratzenberger

I always played a soldier, sailor, or policemen.

Nick Flynn

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

Steve Cohen

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