Famous Quotes & Sayings

Allen West

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

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.

David Halberstam

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

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.

He was a soldier of justice, which is indispensable to our freedom, stability and peace.

Orson Scott Card

He walked down the corridor, lined with his soldiers, who looked at him with love, with awe, with trust. Except Bean, who looked at him with anguish. Ender Wiggin was not larger than life, Bean knew. He was exactly life-sized, and so his larger-than-life burden was too much for him. And yet he was bearing it. So far.

to stand by our soldiers in this hour.

William Shakespeare

I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion, and I will right myself like a soldier.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Che Guevara

A smoke in times of rest is a great companion to the solitary soldier.

William Shakespeare

That in the captains but a choleric word Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.

Those are the same vests our soldiers are being issued.

Geoff Hoon

Ministers regularly meet soldiers that have returned from operational tours to hear about their experiences, including those who have recovered from their injuries.

Garrison Keillor

We thank you [the soldiers recently returned from the middle east] for your service.

Jan Schakowsky

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Loretta Lynn

Doolittle looked just like a little toy soldier the first time I ever saw him.

Mahatma Gandhi

I regard myself as a soldier, though a soldier of peace.

Om Puri

Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.

Oliver Cromwell

On becoming soldiers we have not ceased to be citizens.

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.

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.

Benito Mussolini

The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.

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,

Glen Cook

Soldiers live. He dies and not you, and you feel guilty, because you're glad he died, and not you. Soldiers live, and wonder why.

Herbert Spencer

Policeman are soldiers who act alone; soldiers are policeman who act in unison.

Ernie Pyle

Say what you will, nothing can make a complete soldier except battle experience.

James Callis

My first show, in England, was called Soldier, Soldier.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?