Soldier Quotes - Page 16

• That realm is never long in quiet, where the ruler is a soldier.

  John Webster

  Long, Political, Politics

  John Webster, John Russell Brown (1997). “The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster”, p.49, Manchester University Press

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• It takes a disciplined imagination to acknowledge that the less personal savageries of bombs, missiles, artillery and heavy weapons are, to those blown to smithereens, also barbaric. The main horror of what the coalition is doing is not a matter of the occasional soldier who, in the heat of battle, commits a war crime, but the steady destruction rained on cities, villages, the Iraqi people. This violence is wreaked calmly, from a distance, within the rules of engagement. The war itself is the American war crime.

  James Carroll

  War, Distance, Cities

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• In the remaining months, we should focus on achieving more robust international involvement in training of Iraqi soldiers, police officers, judges, teachers, and doctors - all key elements needed to end the sectarian and civil conflict and build Iraq's future.

  John Olver

  Teacher, Keys, Doctors

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• The first song is called 'London.' It's about two Russian soldiers who desert the Russian army and escape to London, where they indulge in a life of crime.

  Neil Tennant

  Song, Army, Two

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think everybody must be aware that this society is a whole lot shakier now than it was before the war. I was trying to examine, in 'Dog Soldiers,' the process of that blow falling on America

  Robert Stone

  Dog, War, Fall

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• One sailor will do us more good than two soldiers.

  John Adams

  Two, Sailor, Naval

  John Adams (1809). “Correspondence of the Late President Adams”, p.173

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• You've got soldiers in the 3rd Infantry Division who are going every day on operations and they don't all have what is considered to be the gold standard in armor

  Duncan Hunter

  Infantry Division, Gold, Armor

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• Of boasting more than of a bomb afraid, A soldier should be modest as a maid.

  Edward Young

  Bombs, Maids, Should

  Edward Young (1866). “The complete poetical works of Edward Young. With life”, p.293

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• I'm not so in with the prescriptive avant-garde agenda. I can do that sort of thing, but I feel that I'm still interested enough in song structure. When I look at a lyric on the page, the lyric is alive to me, looking like soldiers in a field. I can move it around, and it's very black-and-white.

  Scott Walker

  Song, Moving, Black And White

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• "Suffragette" is an intense drama that tracks the story of the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement as they fight for the right to vote.

  Sarah Gavron

  Drama, Fighting, Feet

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I've always wanted to play a soldier and I'd never taken on a character where I'm the happy-go-lucky protagonist. I've played a lot of jerks recently.

  Jesse McCartney

  Taken, Character, Play

  "5 Questions with Jesse McCartney". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. March 22, 2013.

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• You may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together- what do you get? The sum of their fears.

  Winston Churchill

  Together, May, Tables

  Quoted in Harold Macmillan, The Blast of War: 1939 - 45 (1968) (entry for 16 Nov. 1943)

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• ...commerce, which is mistakenly classified among the productive forms of work, ought to be ranked first among the parasitical professions like those of monk, soldier, lawyer etc.

  Charles Fourier

  Firsts, Etc, Lawyer

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• When German soldiers used to come to my studio and look at my pictures of Guernica, they'd ask 'Did you do this?'. And I'd say, 'No, you did.'

  Pablo Picasso

  Looks, Guernica, Used

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• It is painful to talk about it, but even with its 110,000 elite soldiers, the Soviet Union never managed to gain control over the entire Afghan territory.

  Sergei Ivanov

  Unions, Territory, Gains

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• No more than a famous master can be replaced and another take over the completion of the half-finished painting he has left behind can the great poet and thinker, the great statesman and the great soldier, be replaced. For their activity lies always in the province of art. It is not mechanically trained but inborn by God's grace.

  Adolf Hitler

  Art, Lying, Grace

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• A common and natural result of an undue respect for law is, that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel, captain, corporal, privates, powder-monkeys, and all, marching in admirable order over hill and dale to the wars, against their wills, ay, against their common sense and consciences, which makes it very steep marching indeed, and produces a palpitation of the heart.

  Henry David Thoreau

  War, Heart, Order

  Henry David Thoreau (2002). “The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau: Selected and Edited by Lewis Hyde”, p.202, North Point Press

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• I think matching up Vietnam vets with these Iraqi vets would be a really great thing. When soldiers say only other soldiers can understand, that's what they're talking about: what it means to kill.

  Nina Berman

  Mean, Thinking, Talking

  "Purple Hearts: Back from Iraq". Interview with Tucker Foehl, www.motherjones.com. October 28, 2004.

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• The extreme self-sacrifice characteristic of group-selected species such as ants and bees can often be found among soldiers.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Sacrifice, Often Is, Self

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• A critic is a soldier that fires on his own men.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Men, Fire, Critics

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• Being a soldier [in the wars of modern power politics] was like being on a team in a sport that drew no crowds, except for the players' own parents and friends.

  Dan Wakefield

  Sports, Team, War

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• Say what you will, nothing can make a complete soldier except battle experience.

  Ernie Pyle

  Battle

  Ernie Pyle (2004). “Here is Your War: Story of G.I. Joe”, p.196, U of Nebraska Press

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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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• Armies are a purely human invention. Most soldiers who go to war nowadays don't even do it because they're inherently aggressive.

  Frans de Waal

  War, Army, Invention

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I was really sad after 'The Avengers' when I realized I was not going to have a part in 'Thor 2' or 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier.' But I'm not arguing with my fantastic plane and my really cool car.

  Clark Gregg

  Winter, America, Car

  "‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D’: Clark Gregg on Marvel, Joss Whedon mind meld". Hero Complex interview, herocomplex.latimes.com. September 24, 2013.

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