British Soldiers Quotes

• The British soldiers are fellows who have all enlisted for drink. That is the plain fact - they have all enlisted for drink.

  Duke of Wellington

  War, Facts, Drink

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• The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Witty, War, History

  The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3

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• You remember the Duke of Wellington was talking of the Battle of Waterloo when he said that it was not that the British soldiers were braver than the French soldiers. It was just that they were brave five minutes longer. And in our struggles sometimes that's all it takes-to be brave five minutes longer, to try just a little harder, to not give up on ourselves when everything seems to beg for our defeat.

  Paul H. Dunn

  Giving Up, Struggle, Talking

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• The British soldier who thought himself superior, actually became so.

  John Graves Simcoe

  Soldier, British, Superiors

  John Graves Simcoe (1844). “Simcoe's military journal”, p.15, Рипол Классик

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• Come you back, you British soldier; come you back to Mandalay!

  Rudyard Kipling

  Soldier, British

  'Mandalay' (1892)

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• No matter what the cause was and wherever it was, Indian governments must never requisition the services of British soldiers to deal with civil disturbances.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Government, Matter, Causes

  Mahatma Gandhi (1983). “Collected Works”

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• A few regular troops from old France, weakened by hunger and sickness, who, when fresh, were unable to withstand the British soldiers, are their general's chief dependence.

  James Wolfe

  Air, Troops, France

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• Technically it was a victory for the British, who attacked the patriot fortifications but a Pyrrhic victory if ever there was: out of 2,200 British soldiers 1,034 were killed or wounded, including one in nine of all the officers the British lost in the whole war.

  Geoffrey Wheatcroft

  War, Victory, Nine

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• There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either.

  James Callaghan

  Loss, Citizens, Injustice

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• We used to have a War Office, but now we have a Ministry of Defence, nuclear bombs are now described as deterrents, innocent civilians killed in war are now described as collateral damage and military incompetence leading to US bombers killing British soldiers is cosily described as friendly fire. Those who are in favour of peace are described as mavericks and troublemakers, whereas the real militants are those who want the war.

  Tony Benn

  Peace, Military, Real

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• We've seen the reality of Saddam's regime: his thugs prepared to kill their own people, the parading of prisoners of war and now the release of those pictures of executed British soldiers.

  Tony Blair

  War, Thug, Reality

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