Soldier Quotes - Page 24

• The woman who is resolved to be respected can make herself be so even amidst an army of soldiers.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Army

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• Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer, and the King does not believe that coffee-drinking soldiers can be relied upon to endure hardships in case of another war.

  Frederick The Great

  Kings, War, Drinking

  "Alcohol in the Western World" by Bert L. Vallée, Scientific American, Volume 278, No. 6, pp. 80-85, ru.scribd.com. June 1998.

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• It takes a real man to make a true confession-a Chocolate Soldier will excuse or cloak his sin.

  Charles Studd

  Real, Men, Chocolate

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• But that wasn't fancy enough for Lord Byron, oh dear me no, he had to invent a lot of figures of speech and then interpolate them,
  With the result that whenever you mention Old Testament soldiers to
  people they say Oh yes, they're the ones that a lot of wolves dressed up in gold and purple ate them.

  Ogden Nash

  Purple, People, Gold

  Ogden Nash (1935). “The primrose path”

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• Bravery in simple soldiers is a dangerous trade, to which they have bound themselves to get their livelihood.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Simple, Bravery, Danger

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• History is reticent about women who were common soldiers, who bore arms, belonged to regiments, and took part in battles on the same terms as men, though hardly a war has been waged without women soldiers in the ranks.

  Steig Larsson

  War, Men, Battle

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• Keep unscathed the good name; keep out of peril the honor without which even your battered old soldier who is hobbling into his grave on half-pay and a wooden leg would not change with Achilles.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Names, Honor, Half

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• I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Believe, Battle, Bears

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.98, tredition

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• Such professions as the soldier and the lawyer ... give ample opportunity for crimes but not much for mere illusions. ... If you have lost a battle you cannot believe you have won it; if your client is hanged you cannot pretend that you have gotten him off.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Believe, Opportunity, Giving

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• One of the things that I noticed in war was how difficult it was for our soldiers, at first, to realize that there are no rules to war. Our men were raised in sports, where a referee runs a football game, or an umpire a baseball game, and so forth.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Sports, Baseball, Football

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• We are still in various kinds of patriarchal systems. The very definition of patriarchy is that men control women as the means of reproduction, so the idea that a woman's main role is to have children often means society wants more workers, more soldiers. The idea that how many children we have should be controlled by the family, the church, the nation - by anyone but women themselves - is still very deep and very strong.

  Gloria Steinem

  Strong, Children, Mean

  Interview with Maria Shriver, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 11, 2011.

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• Lincoln had internalized the pain of those around him-the wounded soldiers, the captured prisoners, the defeated Southerners. Little wonder that he was overwhelmed at times by a profound sadness that even his own resilient temperament could not dispel.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Pain, Sadness, Profound

  Doris Kearns Goodwin (2006). “Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln”, p.724, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  Vladimir Putin

  Leadership, Army, Weapons

  "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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• 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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• NAPOLEON: What shall we do with this soldier, Giuseppe? Everything he says is wrong. GIUSEPPE: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says will be right.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Humor

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• If worse comes to worst, I say clearly - a soldier must follow military orders.

  Naftali Bennett

  Military, Order, Worst

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• The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and
  unwilling serfs

  Clarence Darrow

  War, Building Up, People

  "Resist Not Evil". Book by Clarence Darrow, 1904.

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• I unequivocally condemn the striking of the soldier from the Ethiopian community and those responsible will be brought to justice but nobody has the right to take the law into their own hands, immigrants from Ethiopia and their families are dear to us and Israel is making great efforts to ease their integration in society.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Israel, Hands, Law

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• I can work hard and be disciplined like a soldier, but I could never reach their level of fitness. I have a whole new appreciation of soldiers. I saw myself on screen and thought, 'That body is so not hard enough to be a soldier.'

  Richard Armitage

  Appreciation, Hard Work, Saws

  "Richard Armitage: 'I was a beanpole with a nose I hadn't grown into'". Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. May 30, 2010.

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• It is not enough that our life is an easy one. We must live on the stretch, retiring to our rest like soldiers on the eve of a battle, looking forward to the strenuous sortie of the morrow.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Struggle, Battle

  Henry David Thoreau (2007). “My Thoughts Are Murder to the State: Thoreau's Essays on Political Philosophy”, p.163, David M Gross

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• Do not degrade me in the military uniform I wear for it represents the love I have for my country, and the sacrifices myself and millions of other American soldiers make everyday to protect the freedom we enjoy by living in the United States of America.

  Larry David

  Love, Country, Freedom

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• Vanity is so anchored in the heart of man that a soldier, a soldier's servant, a cook, a porter brags and wishes to have his admirers. Even philosophers wish for them. Those who write against vanity want to have the glory of having written well; and those who read it desire the glory of having read it. I who write this have perhaps this desire, and perhaps those who will read it.

  Blaise Pascal

  Philosophical, Writing, Heart

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.46, Courier Corporation

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• I'm a foot soldier in the war on Christmas. And the war on puppies and sunshine.

  Tucker Carlson

  War, Sunshine, Feet

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I think all musicians should understand that you have chosen not to be a soldier but a musician.

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Thinking, Musician, Should

  Interview with Melissa Locker, www.believermag.com. September 2014.

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• There have been many Presidents of the United States and the roll will be indefinitely extended. We have had a number of brilliant soldiers, but only one great general.

  Chauncey Depew

  Numbers, President, United States

  Chauncey Mitchell Depew (1894). “Life and Later Speeches of Chauncey M. Depew”

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