Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl von Clausewitz

The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The soldier's body becomes a stock of accessories that are not his property.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.

Alexander Pope

Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too.

Albert Schweitzer

Soldiers' graves are the greatest preachers of peace.

Douglas MacArthur

The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point?but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

A voter without a ballot is like a soldier without a bullet.

Coolio

I perform for soldiers because they are important.

Allen West

If it's about the lives of my soldiers at stake, I'd go through hell with a gasoline can.

Clara Barton

I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat?

David Gemmell

I am not going to talk about patriotism, duty, liberty, and the defense of freedom because that's all dung to a soldier.

Amy Carmichael

Part of a soldier's duty is to fill gaps...one must be willing to be nothing, as something.

Andrew Young

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.

Andrei Platonov

I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier.

David Halberstam

This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.

Jaswant Singh

These soldiers were tortured and subjected to torture repeatedly,

These soldiers were made to feel like second-class citizens.

The soldier who retreated 50 paces jeered at the one who retreated 100 paces

Sometimes you get a response, but a lot of the soldiers don't respond. I just think they are probably kind of busy.

another day for the soldiers of the coalition.

They taught and they trained, and they showed what it meant, really, to be a soldier in the United States,

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.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends 500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only 53 annually on the victims of poverty.

Ned Beauman

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

Jim Butcher

I'm brilliant as well as skilled," he said modestly. "It's a great burden, all of that on top of my angelic good looks. But I try to soldier on as best I can.

Patrick MacGill

The soldiers' last meal is generally served out about five o'clock in the afternoon, sometimes earlier; and a stretch of fourteen hours intervenes between then and breakfast.

Pat Buchanan

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.

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.

Ozzy Osbourne

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

Ovid

Every lover is a soldier.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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

Hu Shih

India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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