Soldier Quotes - Page 11

• We are the only country who is an ally of the United States that never asked for American soldiers.

  Shimon Peres

  Country, Allies, United States

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• An army travels on its stomach. Soup makes the soldier.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Army, Soup, Stomach

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• Soldiers who always remain faithful to their nation, who are always prepared to sacrifice their lives, are invincible.

  Subhas Chandra Bose

  Motivational, Sacrifice, Faithful

  Subhas Chandra Bose, Subbier Appadurai Ayer, Sisir Kumar Bose, Sugata Bose (2007). “Netaji Collected Works”

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• For instance, one of the costs of the war is that soldiers today get very seriously injured but stay alive, and we can keep them alive but at an enormous price.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  War, Cost, Alive

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Similarly, payments for a dead soldier amount to only $500,000, which is far less than standard estimates of the lifetime economic cost of a death. This statistical value of a life in the US amounts to circa $6.5 million.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Cost, Lifetime, Economic

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I am a seasoned soldier of nonviolence, and I have evidence enough to sustain my faith.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Enough, Evidence

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.101, A&C Black

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• Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.

  George S. Patton

  Military, War, Ideas

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• Nonviolence requires more courage than the soldier of war.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  War, Nonviolence

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• Death on the battlefield is welcome to a soldier.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Death, Welcome, Battlefields

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• The sacred obligation to the Union soldiers must not - will not be forgotten nor neglected. But those who fought against the Nation cannot and do not look to it for relief. Confederate soldiers and their descendants are to share with us and our descendants the destiny of America. Whatever, therefore, we their fellow citizens can do to remove burdens from their shoulders and to brighten their lives is surely in the pathway of humanity and patriotism.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Destiny, America, Humanity

  Letter to Oliver Downing. "Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States". Book edited by Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, March 15, 1889.

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• Honestly, a lot of liberals are foot soldiers in the war on Christmas.

  Tucker Carlson

  War, Feet, Honestly

  "The Situation" with Tucker Carlson, www.nbcnews.com. December 6, 2005.

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• I was eighteen, this was back in '46, so we also had these very frightening images of soldiers in the streets of Paris. So the effect of war, plus my shyness, plus my lack of education - I was afraid of men, really. It changes later, but it took me a certain time to adjust.

  Agnes Varda

  War, Men, Streets Of Paris

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• It is one of the few elements in the process that a director really, really can't control: an actor's performance. If you have a director that understands that, it's comforting to an actor. You're starting the relationship more as a collaborator, rather than as an employee or some kind of a soldier trying to execute something you don't organically feel.

  Jason Bateman

  Comforting, Trying, Directors

  "Toronto: Jason Bateman on Talks Directing Himself in ‘The Family Fang’". Interview with Kathy A. McDonald, variety.com. September 11, 2015.

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• I think it would be a great challenge to work on a military game which featured a female lead character. Since female soldiers are now being allowed on the frontlines, we're actually in danger of reality overtaking games!

  Rhianna Pratchett

  Military, Character, Reality

  Source: www.dualshockers.com

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• Visually I've always liked the 20s 30s for film. I do these because I like the music. I like the clothes. I like the way the women and the guys look. There are soldiers and sailors and gangsters with the machine guns in their violin cases. It's a very colorful era of New York, full of great theater and great nightclubs and great jazz.

  Woody Allen

  New York, Gun, Clothes

  Source: www.woodyallen.art.pl

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• The military offered the opportunity to see the world, and meet other people and learn new customs. Plus, the Army taught soldiers discipline. The life I experienced in the service was an education I could never have obtained as a cowboy.

  Tom Johnson

  Military, Army, Cowboy

  Source: ravenswoodpublishing.blogspot.com

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• I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.

  Stendhal

  Thinking, Skills, Used

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• Today I must humbly thank Providence, whose grace has enabled me, who was once an unknown soldier in the War, to bring to a successful issue the struggle for the restoration of our honor and rights as a nation.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Struggle, Successful

  Adolf Hitler (1944). “Hitler's Words”

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• If soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army.

  Frederick The Great

  War, Army, Thinking

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• Satan's time of tempting is usually after an ordinance; and the reason is, because then he thinks he shall find us most secure. When we have been at solemn duties, we are apt to think all is done, and we grow remiss, and leave off that zeal and strictness as before; just as a soldier, who after a battle leaves off his armour, not once dreaming, of an enemy. Satan watches his time, and when we least suspect, then he throws in a temptation.

  Thomas Watson

  Dream, Prayer, Thinking

  Thomas Watson (2015). “All Things for Good”, p.21, Ravenio Books

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• What's wrong with leading the way? We've played that role before, after all. We gave the world the secret ballot... that did so much to raise living standards and improve conditions for workers worldwide. We were a leader in extending to women the right to vote. We were barely a nation when we set the bar for bravery and sacrifice by common soldiers in foreign wars. We grew up out of racism and misogyny and homophobia to become a mostly tolerant, successful multicultural society. We did these great things because we know we are in it together. It is our core value as Australians.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Leadership, War, Successful

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• A good soldier is a blind, heartless, soulless, murderous machine. He is not a man. His is not a brute, for brutes kill only in self defense. All that is human in him, all that is divine in him, all that constitutes the man has been sworn away when he took the enlistment roll. His mind, his conscience, aye, his very soul, are in the keeping of his officer. No man can fall lower than a soldier-it is a depth beneath which we cannot go.

  Jack London

  War, Fall, Men

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• From the time I was twelve years old until I retired last year at the age of fifty-seven, the Army was my life. I loved commanding soldiers and being around people who had made a serious commitment to serve their country.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Love, Country, Commitment

  Norman Schwarzkopf (2010). “It Doesn't Take a Hero: The Autobiography of General Norman Schwarzkopf”, p.10, Bantam

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• Today, whether it is a student who holds a sit-in to get the army recruiters off his campus, or the mother of a dead soldier who refuses to leave the front gate of the president's ranch, we continue to be saved by brave people who risk ridicule and rejection but end up turning huge tides of public opinion in the direction of righteousness. We owe them enormous debts of gratitude. It is not easy to stand up for what is right, especially when everyone else is afraid to leave the comfortable path of conformity.

  Michael Moore

  Mother, Gratitude, Army

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• War means fighting. The business of the soldier is to fight. ... To move swiftly, strike vigorously, and secure all the fruits of victory is the secret of successful war.

  Stonewall Jackson

  War, Moving, Mean

  "Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War". Book by George Francis Robert Henderson, 1904.

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