Soldier Quotes - Page 9

• No human mind may measure the blessings conferred by the game of base ball on the soldiers of the Civil War. It had its earliest evolution when soldiers, North and South, were striving to forget their foes by cultivating, through this grand game, fraternal friendships with comrades in arms.

  Albert Goodwill Spalding

  War, Blessing, Games

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• Without a home must the soldier go, a changeful wanderer, and can warm himself at no home-lit hearth.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Home, Lit, Wanderers

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• Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.

  Walter Scott

  Should Have, Abuse, Mind

  Sir Walter Scott (1832). “Talisman”, p.300

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• All live by seeming.
  The beggar begs with it, and the gay courtier
  Gains land and title, rank and rule, by seeming;
  The clergy scorn it not, and the bold soldier
  Will eke with it his service.--All admit it,
  All practise it; and he who is content
  With showing what he is, shall have small credit
  In church, or camp, or state.--So wags the world.

  Walter Scott

  Gay, Land, Hypocrisy

  sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) (1862). “The Waverley novels. 25 vols.”, p.260

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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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• 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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• Turkish soldiers are very brave. They love their homeland and they do not hesitate to give their lives for it if necessary.

  Albert Einstein

  Giving, Brave, Turkish

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• When I left Springfield [to become President] I asked the people to pray for me. I was not a Christian. When I buried my son, the severest trial of my life, I was not a Christian. But when I went to Gettysburg and saw the graves of thousands of our soldiers, I then and there consecrated myself to Christ.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Christian, Son, People

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• Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society. If one colony member devotes its life to service over marriage, the individual is of benefit to the society, even though it does not have personal offspring. A soldier going into battle will benefit his country, but he runs a higher risk of death than one who does not. An altruist benefits the group, but a layabout or coward who saves his own energy and reduces his bodily risk passes the resulting social cost to others.

  E. O. Wilson

  Running, Country, Risk

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• As well the soldier dieth who standeth still as he that gives the bravest onset.

  Philip Sidney

  Giving, Battle, Wells

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.101

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• The business of a general is to kick away the ladder behind soldiers when they have climbed up a height.

  Sun Tzu

  Ladders, Height, Kicks

  Sun Tzu, Shang Yang (1997). “The Art of War”, p.47, Wordsworth Editions

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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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• Why should the brave Spanish soldiers brag? The sunne never sets in the Spanish dominions, but ever shineth on one part or other we have conquered for our king.

  John Smith

  Kings, Brave, Spain

  "Advertisements for the Unexperienced, etc." by Captain John Smith, Massachusetts Historical Society Collection, Third Series, Volume III, p. 49,

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• So here they are, the dog-faced soldiers, the regulars, the fifty-cents-a-day professionals riding the outposts of the nation, from Fort Reno to Fort Apache, from Sheridan to Stark. They were all the same. Men in dirty-shirt blue and only a cold page in the history books to mark their passing. But wherever they rode and whatever they fought for, that place became the United States.

  Frank Nugent

  Dog, Dirty, Book

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• The soldier who fights to death never dies, but the soldier who fights for existence never truly exists.

  Yi Sun-sin

  Inspirational, Fighting, Existence

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• Among the calamities of war may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth by falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages. A peace will equally leave the warrior and the relater of wars destitute of employment; and I know not whether more is to be dreaded from streets filled with soldiers accustomed to plunder, or from garrets filled with scribblers accustomed to lie.

  Samuel Johnson

  War, Lying, Employment

  The Idler no. 30 (11 Nov. 1758)

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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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• 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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• God gives His toughest battles to His strongest soldiers.

  Jennifer Lee

  Giving, Battle, Strongest

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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 saw battle-corpses, myriads of them,
  And the white skeletons of young men-I saw them;
  I saw the debris and debris of all the dead soldiers of the war;
  But I saw they were not as was thought;
  They themselves were fully at rest-they suffer'd not;
  The living remain'd and suffer'd-the mother suffer'd,
  And the wife and the child, and the musing comrade suffer'd,
  And the armies that remain'd suffer'd.

  Walt Whitman

  Mother, Veterans Day, Children

  Walt Whitman (1870). “Passage to India”, p.39, Haskell House Pub Limited

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• 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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• By and by when each nation has 20,000 battleships and 5,000,000 soldiers we shall all be safe and the wisdom of statesmanship will stand confirmed.

  Mark Twain

  Safe, Nations, Statesmanship

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.456, Courier Corporation

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• As soldiers we have few saving graces. Perhaps our willingness to die for what we believe in is all that matters.

  Leo Gordon

  Death, Believe, Grace

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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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