We will be soldiers, so our sons may be farmers, so their sons may be artists
The German soldier has impressed the world, however the Italian Bersagliere soldier has impressed the German soldier.
After the war, they took Army dogs and rehabilitated them for civilian life. But they turned soldiers into civilians immediately, and let em sink or swim.
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war.
Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.
There's only one way for a professional soldier to die. That's from the last bullet of the last battle of the last war.
The gallantry and aggressive fighting spirit of the Russian soldiers command the American army's admiration.
Every lover is a soldier.
A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
No man was ever a good soldier but the man who goes into the battle determined to conquer, or not to come back from the battle field (cheers). No other principle makes a good soldier.
Another soldier has been killed. Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.
For a man to be a man, did he have to be a soldier, or at least prepare himself for war? For a woman to be a woman, did she have to be a mother, or at least prepare herself to raise children? Soldiers and mothers were the sacrificial couple, honored by statues in the park, lauded for their willingness to give their lives to others.
The most vital quality a soldier can possess is self-confidence.
This whole society, up to now, has been very violent with the individual. It does not believe in the individual; it is against the individual. It tries in every possible way to destroy you for its own purposes. It needs clerks, it needs stationmasters, deputy-collectors, policemen, magistrates, it needs soldiers. It does not need human beings.
Out of your awareness you cannot become soldiers in a war because you will be able to see, with clear eyes, that you are going to kill people - people who have done no harm to you personally, people just like you. They have their children, their wives, their mothers, their old fathers to take care of - and you are killing the person just to get a gold medal. Your gun will slip out of your hand, and that will be an act of awareness. And you will feel tremendously blissful that it happened; even if you are being shot your death will be a glory, a peace, an adventure, a journey into a new world.
There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier's sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.
The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one’s country
The most important thing I learned is that soldiers watch what their leaders do. You can give them classes and lecture them forever, but it is your personal example they will follow.
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
Soldiers' bellies are not satisfied with empty promises and hopes.
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
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.
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