Soldier War Quotes
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To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Attacks on cities are strategically justified in so far as they tend to shorten the war and so preserve the lives of allied soldiers.
— Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
We were soldiers, but even before we were showed how to kill our enemies, they taught us how to kill ourselves.
— Ruth Ozeki
Some mules just seem to be born with the hee-haw habit. Back home we call those fellows 'Missouri Nightingales'.
— Maureen Daly
Ben Battle was a soldier bold, and used to war's alarms, But a cannon-ball took off his legs, so he laid down his arms.
— Thomas Hood
Revolutions are good times for soldiers of talent and courage.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers; for gold alone will not procure good soldiers, but good soldiers will always procure gold.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.
— Lester B. Pearson
I was a soldier. It is like a dream. When even the bones is gone in the desert the dreams is talk to you, you don't wake up forever.
— Cormac McCarthy
No great dependence is to be placed on the eagerness of young soldiers for action ... fighting is agreeable to those who are strangers to it.
— Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it.
— Smedley Butler
Nonviolence requires more courage than the soldier of war.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Maybe it's time to stop being a soldier and go home to be a father. And a husband for Deanna. I'm not sure how.
— David Bellavia
No soldier ever really survives a war.
— Audie Murphy
My heart is full and my weapon is clean.
— Jason Christopher Hartley
And be very careful at the front, Paul."Ah, Mother, Mother! Why do I not take you in my arms and die with you. What poor wretches we are! — Erich Maria Remarque
I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war.
— Geraldine Brooks
The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
— Douglas MacArthur
The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.
— Alfred De Vigny
The soldiers currently manning our sophisticated weaponry have room temperature IQ's.
— G. Gordon Liddy
Could it have nothing to do with the soldier and everything to do with the type of war now being fought?
— David Finkel
When World War II started on September 1, 1939, the German army contained 3.74 million soldiers and 103 divisions.
— John Mearsheimer
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
— George Santayana
There are far more statues of soldiers out there than there are of civilians.
— George Armstrong Custer
Every means should be taken to attach the soldier to his colours.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
You have to be willing to sacrifice as much to prevent war, as soldiers are willing to sacrifice to wage war.
— Jodie Evans
The world he had left was not ready for his return, or rather, he was not ready to return to the world he had left.
— Matthew J. Hefti
It is as a soldier that you make love and as a lover that you make war.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Never trust a soldier who's eager to go to war.
— Ramez Naam
I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
— Mel Brooks
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. a
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Worry only about what you control. The rest is war.
— Matthew J. Hefti
Amnesia was a soldier's best friend, and luckily, it could be taught. Missing limbs still ache, but missing memories never do.
— Alex London
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war
— Otto Von Bismarck
The soldier is the army.
— George S. Patton
In the aftermath, we are because they were.
— RJ Heller
Soldier or sailor, the fighting man is but a fiend; and the staff and body-guard of the Devil musters many a baton.
— Herman Melville
In time of revolution, with perseverance and courage, a soldier should think nothing impossible.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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
To create peace, be a soldier of peace with a pen not a soldier of war with a gun.
— Debasish Mridha
As wars come and go, my soldier stays eternal
— Tupac Shakur
But, hey, remember: If things don't work out in your life, you can always just turn to drugs or join the Army.
— Jason Christopher Hartley
You must be a light unto yourself.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
I've had people tell me to get over it. I politely tell them, 'How about if I chop off your finger and see if it grows back?
— Jim Sheeler
It is not set speeches at the moment of battle that render soldiers brave.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
... If one who slays one is a murderer then he who slays a thousand is not a hero,' said Lalu.- Pg. #112, Across the Black Waters. — Mullk Raj Anand
We have yielded no more than a few hundred yards of it as a prize to the enemy. But on every yard there lies a dead man.
— Erich Maria Remarque
War comes and goes but a soldier stays eternal
— Tupac Shakur
We will form an army of poor, where every poor will be a soldier and we will win the war against poverty on behalf of their strength.
— Narendra Modi
Like most Rebel soldiers, Sam Watkins owned no slaves.
— Bruce Catton
Afghanistan changed him, but Iraq sculpted him.
— Melissa Seligman
War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of.
— Sebastian Junger
An Emperor confides in national soldiers, not in mercenaries.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.
— Ulysses S. Grant
No man is a man until he has been a soldier.
— Louis De Bernieres
The hardest thing of all for a soldier is to retreat.
— Duke Of Wellington
You can't equate the game we play to a war. Kellen Winslow said he's a soldier. No, he's not. This is not a war ... not a good comparison.
— Ken Rosenthal
It is impossible to give a soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him.
— Henry David Thoreau
According to Robert, his friend Moses was a soldier in the first war, as he described it. He fought Indians and soldiers in red coats.
— Nancy B. Brewer
Though all the guns be silenced,each soldier in his home,
There is no peace till Love comes,
till the meek may safely roam. — C. P. Klapper
Soldier don't act like we is crime and them is order, soldier act like we is enemy and this is war.
— Marlon James
There's only one way for a professional soldier to die. That's from the last bullet of the last battle of the last war.
— George S. Patton
The soldier stared at Ingrid. His silence was elastic, slowly curling a rope around her neck.
— Ruta Sepetys
All generals, officers, and soldiers who capitulate in battle to save their own lives should be decimated.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you
— Walt Whitman
War is killing the individual in it unless he has learned livingness - if he had it he wouldn't be a good soldier.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
No time to spare: the expression assumed its full significance, as so many expressions do in wartime.
— Guy Sajer
War has become an affair of machines ... and soldiers are little more than clever mechanics.
— Alberto Moravia
But for a soldier his duty is plain. He is to obey the orders of all those placed over him and whip the enemy wherever he meets him.
— Ulysses S. Grant
Relax now. That's the beauty of war. Utter subservience to one's leaders absolves a soldier of the consequences of her actions.
— Alan Campbell
Kill every enemy twice, Wilky said. Better than gettin' shot by a soldier pretending to be dead.
— Joseph Bruchac
I give it to you now because, child of soldier, child of man, child of angel, it is not necessary to win the battle, if in the end, you win the war.
— Jessica Shirvington
A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
— Norman Schwarzkopf
