Soldier Quotes - Page 17

• I've never really had a TV career. I've been a soldier and a climber.

  Bear Grylls

  Careers, Tvs, Climbers

  Interview with Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2008.

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• Women are brilliant. Every woman knows how to do the weirdest thing right out of the bucket. Every woman knows how to do that Hindu head wrap with the towel out of the shower. A typhoon couldn't blow that thing off their heads. Ever try to do that? You look like a drunk Iraqi soldier.

  Tim Allen

  Blow, Drunk, Trying

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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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• This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.

  David Halberstam

  Mark, Uncommon, Battlefields

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• I've been a soldier, I've been a bunch of little girls, all sorts of roles that I would not have been able to be with on camera context because I just don't look the part.

  Ashly Burch

  Girl, Cameras, Roles

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• Come you back, you British soldier; come you back to Mandalay!

  Rudyard Kipling

  British Soldiers, British

  'Mandalay' (1892)

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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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• Bonaparte knew but one merit, and rewarded in one and the same way the good soldier, the good astronomer, the good poet, the good player.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Player, Way, Merit

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.233, Modern Library

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• I hope that the responsible figures in the Ukrainian leadership will not hinder soldiers in the Ukrainian army from putting down their weapons, if they aren't capable of taking that decision themselves and giving that order, then I hope that they won't prosecute people who want to save their lives and the lives of others.

  Vladimir Putin

  Leadership, Army, Order

  "Ukraine pro-Russia forces seize strategic Debaltseve railway hub despite truce" by Alec Luhn and Oksana Grytsenko, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2015.

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• The instant you say All Quiet On The Western Front people remember that great 20th century classic book on war, a book about a school boy turned into a soldier overnight.

  Ann Widdecombe

  War, Book, School

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• The rôle of the artist is that of a soldier of the revolution.

  Diego Rivera

  Artist, Revolution

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• The Red Army is like a furnace in which all captured soldiers are melted down and transformed the moment they come over.

  Mao Zedong

  Army, Down And, Red

  Zedong Mao, Stuart Reynolds Schram, Nancy Jane Hodes (1992). “Mao's Road to Power: From the Jinggangshan to the establishment of the Jiangxi Soviets, July 1927-December 1930”, p.98, M.E. Sharpe

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• It is the soldier and the army, not parliamentary majorities and decisions, that have welded the German Empire together. I put my trust in the army.

  Wilhelm II

  Army, Decision, Together

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• The [chief] characteristic of Hitler's leadership [was] his over-estimation of the power of the will. [To win the war] this will had only to be translated into faith down to the youngest private soldier.

  Erich von Manstein

  War, Winning, Chiefs

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• That truth which you swallow from others will not be yours...you have to realize truth and work it our for yourself according to your own nature...All must struggle to be individuals-strong, standing on your own feet, thinking your own thoughts, realizing you own Self. No use swallowing doctrines others pass on-standing up together like soldiers in jail, sitting down together, all eating the same food, all nodding their heads at the same time. Variation is the sign of life. Sameness is the sign of death.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Strong, Struggle, Thinking

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• The worse the man the better the soldier. If soldiers be not corrupt they ought to be made so.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, He Man, Made

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• The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Support, Quality, Valor

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• It is not the willingness to kill on the part of our soldiers which most concerns me. That is an inherent part of war. It is our lack of respect for even the admirable characteristics of our enemy; for courage, for suffering, for death, for his willingness to die for his beliefs, for his companies and squadrons which go forth, one after another, to annihilation against our superior training and equipment.

  Charles Lindbergh

  War, Training, Enemy

  Journal entry on July 21, 1944. "The Wartime Journals of Charles A. Lindbergh". Book by Charles Lindbergh, 1970.

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• Israel is the largest American aircraft carrier in the world that cannot be sunk, does not carry even one American soldier, and is located in a critical region for American national security.

  Alexander Haig

  Israel, Doe, Aircraft Carriers

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• The only acceptable imperialism is the Imperialism of the Forest! Let the whole world are invaded by the tree-soldiers!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Tree, World, Forests

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• ...(W)e lose when by official policy or by official negligence we allow, confuse or encourage our soldiers to forget . . . that which is our greatest strength: that we are different and better than our enemies.

  John McCain

  Enemy, Different, Forget

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• The spirit of Thanksgiving rests in our recognizing the blessings in our lives, and as we all take stock, I hope you will join me in expressing sincerest thanks to our soldiers serving in harm's way in Iraq, Afghanistan, and around the world. May God bless you on this day of thanks, and may God protect our troops.

  Joe Biden

  Blessing, Iraq, World

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• A voter without a ballot is like a soldier without a bullet.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Voters, Bullets, Ballots

  Eisenhower, Dwight D (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956”, p.774, Best Books on

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• Waitresses, soldiers, rickshaw drivers, old ladies selling vegetables - my father would schmooze anybody. He was Clintonesque before the word existed. And, of course, it paid dividends. Ill-tempered guards at the most notorious border crossings waved him through with cheery smiles. Haughty maitre d's fawned over him.

  Scott Anderson

  Father, Vegetables, Borders

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• To travel only a few blocks in his own homeland, an elderly grandfather waits to beg for the whim of a teenage soldier. More than an emergency is required to get to a hospital; less than a crime earns a trip to jail.
  
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  The lucky ones have a permit to leave their squalor to work in the cities, but luck runs out when security closes all checkpoints, paralyzing an entire people. The indignities, dependence and anger are all too familiar.

  Desmond Tutu

  Running, Teenage, Block

  "An international campaign : Build moral pressure to end the occupation" by Desmond Tutu, www.nytimes.com. June 14, 2002.

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