Soldier Quotes

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  I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.

  George S. Patton

  Motivational, Military, War

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• Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier; I have seen worse sights than this.

  Homer

  Strong, Heart, Sight

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• The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Life, Hate, Passion

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  The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Peace, Military, War

  "Duty, Honor, Country: A Pictorial Autobiography".

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• A soldier never dies. His blood makes the grass green for his children.

  Carol Berg

  Children, Blood, Green

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• Only the soldier is a free man, because he can look death in the face.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Men, Looks, Faces

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• Good soldiers are defined by what they can endure, not by what they can inflict.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Shantaram, Endure, Defined

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.525, Macmillan

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• A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Inspiring, Veterans Day

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.151, Anchor

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• A warrior with a cause is the most dangerous soldier of all

  Michael Scott

  Warrior, Causes, Dangerous

  Michael Scott (2012). “The Enchantress”, p.301, Random House

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• The preservation of freedom, is not the task of soldiers alone. The whole nation has to be strong.

  Lal Bahadur Shastri

  Strong, Tasks, Preservation

  Lal Bahadur Shastri (1974). “Selected Speeches of Lal Bahadur Shastri: June 11, 1964 to January 10, 1966”

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  On the battlefield, the military pledges to leave no soldier behind. As a nation, let it be our pledge that when they return home, we leave no veteran behind.

  Dan Lipinski

  Veterans Day, Military, Home

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• The hardest thing of all for a soldier is to retreat.

  Duke of Wellington

  Military, War, Retreat

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• Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Life, Courage

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• Ambition, the soldier's virtue.

  William Shakespeare

  Military, Ambition, Virtue

  William Shakespeare, David Bevington (1990). “Antony and Cleopatra”, p.153, Cambridge University Press

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• The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men.

  Minot Judson Savage

  Uplifting, Death, Memorial Day

  Minot Judson Savage (1884). “Poems of modern thought”

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• The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Determination, Endurance, Firsts

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  The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

  George S. Patton

  Country, Military, War

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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  I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

  Nathan Hale

  Inspirational, Life, Country

  Before being executed as a spy by the British, 22 September 1776, in Henry Phelps Johnston 'Nathan Hale, 1776' (1914) ch. 7.

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• In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.

  Jose Narosky

  Veterans Day, Memorial Day, Peace

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• Every lover is a soldier.

  Ovid

  Alaska, Lovers

  Ovid (1997). “Ovid's Metamorphoses”, p.280, University of Oklahoma Press

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• Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Veterans Day, Peace, Military

  Address to joint meeting of Congress, 19 Apr. 1951

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• A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Argument, Oppression, Handful

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook E 19, 1799.

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• We will be soldiers, so our sons may be farmers, so their sons may be artists

  Thomas Jefferson

  Son, Artist, May

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• 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.

  George S. Patton

  War, Dying, Battle

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• The most vital quality a soldier can possess is self-confidence.

  George S. Patton

  Self Confidence, Self, Quality

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