Soldier Quotes - Page 6

• When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got to be perfectly at home in men's clothes.

  Calamity Jane

  Home, Men, Clothes

  Calamity Jane (2013). “The Life And Adventures Of Calamity Jane: A Short Memoir”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• In Vietnam, our soldiers came back and they were reviled as baby killers, in shame and humiliation. It isn't happening now, but I will tell you, there has never been an American army as violent and murderous as our army has been in Iraq.

  Seymour Hersh

  Baby, Army, Iraq

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• A father who denies a child of his attention is no better than a fully-equipped medic who watches idly as a soldier bleeds to death.

  Wes Fesler

  Children, Father, Watches

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• In order to be a good soldier it is necessary to know how to dance.

  Plato

  Dance, Order, Dancing

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• A soldier's first duty is to obey, otherwise you might as well do away with soldiering.

  Albert Kesselring

  Might, Firsts, Duty

  "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, (p. 322), 2004.

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• O God of battles! steel my soldiers’ hearts. Possess them not with fear.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Battle, Steel

  'Henry V' (1599) act 4, sc. 1, l. [309]

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• She had witnessed the world's most beautiful things, and allowed herself to grow old and unlovely. She had felt the heat of a leviathan's roar, and the warmth within a cat's paw. She had conversed with the wind and had wiped soldier's tears. She had made people see, she'd seen herself in the sea. Butterflies had landed on her wrists, she had planted trees. She had loved, and let love go. So she smiled.

  Sonya Hartnett

  Beautiful, Butterfly, Cat

  Sonya Hartnett (2011). “The Ghost's Child”, p.140, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• On becoming soldiers we have not ceased to be citizens.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Military, Citizens, Becoming

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• In war, the chief incalculable is the human will.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, War, Marine Corps

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• It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live; before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands.

  Andre Gide

  Fall, Army, Gun

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• Die in obeying commands like a soldier, and go to Nirvana, but no cowardice.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Coward, Command, Obeying

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.4016, Manonmani Publishers

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• Dunkirk has fallen... with it has ended the greatest battle of world history. Soldiers! My confidence in you knew no bounds. You have not disappointed me.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Battle, World

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

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Political, Gold, Politics

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• Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Land, Drawing, Citizens

  'Dreamers' (1918)

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• It's no disgrace to be a private, you know. Socrates was a plain foot soldier, a hoplite.

  Saul Bellow

  Humility, Feet, Disgrace

  SAUL BELLOW (1944). “DANGLING MAN”

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• The worse the man, the better the soldier.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, He Man

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• Far in foreign fields from Dunkirk to Belgrade
  Lie the soldiers and chiefs of the Irish Brigade.

  Thomas Davis

  Lying, Fields, Belgrade

  1845 The Spirit of the Nation,'The Battle-Eve of the Brigade'.

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

  William Shakespeare

  Littles, Holes, Discretion

  William Shakespeare, Richard Farmer, Nicholas Rowe, George Steevens, Alexander Pope (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Two gentlemen of Verona. Comedy of errors. Love's labour's lost”, p.452

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• It were better to be a soldier's widow than a coward's wife.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Military, Wife, Coward

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1911). “The writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”

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• Our soldiers did not go to some foreign country and risk their lives in vain and defend our Constitution so that decades later you can tell me it's a living document ever changing and is open to interpretation. The guys who wrote it were light years ahead of anyone today, and they meant what they said - now leave the document alone, or there's going to be trouble.

  Ted Nugent

  Country, Light, Years

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• Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent considerations of duty,--familiarity with danger enabling him to estimate the danger. He sees how much is the risk, and is not afflicted with imagination; knows practically Marshal Saxe's rule, that every soldier killed costs the enemy his weight in lead.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Imagination, Risk

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.132, Harvard University Press

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• In a militia, the character of the laborer, artificer, or tradesman, predominates over that of the soldier: in a standing army, that of the soldier predominates over every other character.

  Adam Smith

  Military, Character, Army

  Adam Smith (1801). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.322

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• Words are soldiers of fortune hired by different ideas.

  Maxwell Bodenheim

  Ideas, Different, Fortune

  Maxwell Bodenheim (2016). “Introducing Irony - A Book Of Poetic Short Stories And Poems”, p.46, Read Books Ltd

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• And the first king was a lucky soldier.

  S.M. Stirling

  Kings, Lucky, Firsts

  S. M. Stirling (2003). “Conquistador: It's 1946. The White Man is about to Discover America”, ROC Hardcover

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• These soldiers deserve a better defense secretary than the one we have.

  William Kristol

  Defense, Secretary, Deserve

  "Tough question starts Washington firestorm", www.cnn.com. December 17, 2004.

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