Soldier Quotes - Page 8

• We New Yorkers see more death and violence than most soldiers do, grow a thick chitin on our backs, grimace like a rat and learn to do a disappearing act. Long ago we outgrew the need to be blowhards about our masculinity; we leave that to the Alaskans and Texans, who have more time for it.

  Edward Hoagland

  Long Ago, Needs, Rats

  Edward Hoagland (1973). “Walking the Dead Diamond River”, Random House (NY)

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• There was the murdered corpse, in covert laid,
  And violent death in thousand shapes displayed;
  The city to the soldier's rage resigned;
  Successless wars, and poverty behind;
  Ships burnt in fight, or forced on rocky shores,
  And the rash hunter strangled by the boars;
  The newborn babe by nurses overlaid;
  And the cook caught within the raging fire he made.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Death, War, Fighting

  John Dryden, Geoffrey Chaucer (1897). “Palamon and Arcite”

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• Thank God I'm over the hill. The only heat I have left comes from hot flashes, my promiscuity is confined to the words "one size fits all," and I buy my white cotton unmentionables at Boadicea's Retreat, not Victoria's Secret. None of the things men do to women could possibly happen to me now unless the U.S. is invaded by one of those new Russian republics whose soldiers aren't fussy.

  Florence King

  Women, White, Hot Flashes

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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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• Always remember that a soldier's pack is lighter than a slave's chains.

  David O. McKay

  War, Remember, Slave

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• Soldiers may grow a soul when turned to fronds,
  But here the thing's best left at home with friends.

  Wilfred Owen

  Home, Soul, May

  Wilfred Owen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)”, p.211, Delphi Classics

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• I don't know how long it has been since my ear has been free from the roll of a drum. It is the music I sleep by, and I love it.... I shall remain here while anyone remains, and do whatever comes to my hand. I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

  Clara Barton

  War, Sleep, Fighting

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• And it's been proved that soldiers don't go mad
  Unless they lose control of ugly thoughts
  That drive them out to jabber among the trees.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  War, Mad, Tree

  Siegfried Sassoon (2004). “War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon”, p.80, Courier Corporation

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• According to U.S. strategy, if you never see the other, his destruction will be more acceptableso that when Iraqi soldiers surrendered, sooner than expected, it was as if they emerged from a dream, a flash-back, a lost epoch--an epoch when the enemy still had a body and was still "like us.

  Serge Daney

  Dream, Enemy, Body

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• Our poetry emulates the recent progress in military strategy: Our army's strength is the foot soldiers.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Strength, Military, Army

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• Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Horse, Brave, Frightened

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• Two soldiers and a villain are enough to blow up the rights of the citizens.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Blow, Rights, Two

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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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• 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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• Until the end of the Middle Ages, and in many cases afterwards too, in order to obtain initiation in a trade of any sort whatever--whether that of courtier, soldier, administrator, merchant or workman--a boy did not amass the knowledge necessary to ply that trade before entering it, but threw himself into it; he then acquired the necessary knowledge.

  Philippe Aries

  Boys, Order, Age

  Philippe Ariès (1962). “Centuries of childhood: a social history of family life”, Vintage

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• America does not like losers. Look how we treated those soldiers who came back from Vietnam. Because they lost. America likes winners.

  Paul Mooney

  America, Doe, Looks

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If you replace a soldier with a machine, you take away the possibility of the soldier or the policeman to not do something the state asks of him. He may think it's unethical to do it. A machine doesn't have that critical perspective.

  Jose Padilha

  Thinking, Perspective, May

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Radical Islamists are serious about killing in pursuit of their extreme objectives. Releasing their soldiers can only embolden them to take more Americans hostage. The deal for Sgt. Bergdahl may well turn out to have been a bargain with the devil.

  Cal Thomas

  Devil, May, Serious

  "Bowe Bergdahl prisoner swap just a pact with the devil?" by Cal Thomas, www.foxnews.com. June 3, 2014.

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• In Iraq, four American soldiers have been arrested and charged with stealing a million dollars cash. After hearing about it the Fox network announced plans for a new reality show called 'GI Joe Millionaire.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Reality, Iraq, Four

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• Bin Laden, who was in his country, attacked and damaged our Pentagon, and killed our soldiers right out here at the Pentagon. But his pentagon no longer exists. It is rubble.

  Jeff Sessions

  Country, Pentagon, Bin Laden

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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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• The soldier takes pride in saluting his Captain,
  The devotee proffers a knee to his Lord,
  Some back a mare thrown from a thoroughbred,
  Troy backed its Helen, Troy died and adored;
  Great nations blossom above,
  A slave bows down to a slave.

  William Butler Yeats

  Loyalty, Pride, Knees

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.581, Simon and Schuster

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• Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Work, Men, Professors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.54, Library of America

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• They [US soldiers] started to commit suicide on the Baghdad walls. We will encourage them to double their suicide attempts.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Suicide, Wall, Baghdad

  "Iraqi information minister denies presence of US forces in Baghdad". BBC Monitoring, April 7, 2003.

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• Zeal is ever the buckler and shield of a true soldier.

  George C. Wallace

  Shields, Zeal

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