Soldiers Quotes
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We are parlor soldiers. The rugged battle of fate, where strength is born, we shun. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Old soldiers never die, they just fade away (Quote by - Douglas MacArthur)
Every lover is a soldier and has his camp in Cupid. (Quote by - Ovid)
Every soldier carries a marshall's baton in his pack. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)
Soldiers, strike the foe in the face! (Quote by - Florus)
The weapon of the advocate is the sword of the soldier, not the dagger of the assassin (Quote by - Alexander Cockburn)
History, n: an account mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
You led our sons across the haunted flood, Into the Canaan of their high desire-- No milk and honey there, but tears and blood Flowed where the hosts of evil trod in fire, And left a worse than desert where they passed. (Quote by - Amelia Josephine Burr)
I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me. (Quote by - General George S. Patton)
The most vital quality a soldier can possess is self-confidence, utter, complete and bumptious. (Quote by - George Patton)
The best soldiers are not warlike (Quote by - Chinese Proverb)
The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle. (Quote by - Heinrich Heine)
The first who was king was a fortunate soldier: Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors. (Quote by - Voltaire)
For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal; miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely seen. (Quote by - Cervantes)
He stands erect; his slouch becomes a walk; He steps right onward, martial in his air, His form and movement. (Quote by - William Cowper)
I have seen men march to the wars, and then I have watched their homeward tread, And they brought back bodies of living men, But their eyes were fold and dead. So, Buddy no matter what else the fame, No matter what else the prize, I want you to come back thru The Flame With the boy-look still in your eyes! (Quote by - Edmund Vance Cooke)
We are coming, Father Abraham, three hundred thousand more. (Quote by - J. S. Gibbons)
Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death. (Quote by - Sun Tzu)
Onward, Christian soldiers, Marching as to war, With the cross of Jesus Going on before. (Quote by - Sabine Baring-Gould)
Cheers for the sailors that fought on the wave for it, Cheers for the soldiers that always were brave for it, Tears for the men that went down to the grave for it, Here comes the Flag! (Quote by - Arthur Macy)
And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell him, Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off. (Quote by - Bible)
I am a soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight. (Quote by - General George S. Patton)
It is not the guns or armament Or the money they can pay, It's the close co-operation That makes them win the day. It is not the individual Or the army as a whole, But the everlastin' teamwork Of every bloomin' soul. (Quote by - J. Mason Knox)
The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable. (Quote by - Benito Mussolini)
And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam. (Quote by - Bible)
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. (Quote by - Clara Barton)
Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest! . By fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung. (Quote by - William Collins)
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create. (Quote by - Charles Baudelaire)
The knight's bones are dust, And his good sword rust; His soul is with the saints, I trust. (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
When the action was over and they were returning with joy, they recognized Nicanor, lying dead, in full armor. (Quote by - Bible)
Soldiers usually win the battles and generals get the credit for them. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
Home they brought her warrior dead. (Quote by - Lord Alfred Tennyson)
Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions (Quote by - Jerry Falwell)
I cannot bear it! said the pewter soldier. I have shed pewter tears! It is too melancholy! Rather let me go to the wars and lose arms and legs! It would at least be a change. I cannot bear it longer! Now, I know what it is to have a visit from one's old thoughts, with what they may bring with them! I have had a visit from mine, and you may be sure it is no pleasant thing in the end; I was at last about to jump down from the drawers. (Quote by - Hans Christian Andersen)
Each year his mighty armies marched forth in gallant show, Their enemies were targets, their bullets they were tow. (Quote by - Pierre Jean de Beranger)
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems? (Quote by - Calvin & Hobbes)
In war, there are no unwounded soldiers. (Quote by - Jose Narosky)
A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives (Quote by - Siegfried Sassoon)
As an old soldier, I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers. (Quote by - Harry Truman)
In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one. (Quote by - John Gay)
Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely and systematically that might is not right. (Quote by - G. K. Chesterton)
Don't waste good iron for nails or good men for soldiers (Quote by - Chinese Proverb )
Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty. (Quote by - Robert Ingersoll)
The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction. (Quote by - Charles Haddon Spurgeon)
Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy (Quote by - Claude Adrien Helvetius)
A coward dies a thousand deaths... a soldier dies but once. (Quote by - Tupac Shakur)
Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head. (Quote by - Euripides)
Soldiers, forty centuries are looking down upon you from these pyramids. (Quote by - Napoleon)
Ay me! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron! (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
Howbeit he refused to turn aside: wherefore Abner with the hinder end of the spear smote him under the fifth rib, that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place: and it came to pass, that as many as came to the place when Asahel fell down and died stood still. (Quote by - Bible)
See! There is Jackson standing like a stone wall. (Quote by - Bernard Elliott Bee)
Back of the boy is Wilson, Pledge of his high degree, Back of the boy is Lincoln, Lincoln and Grant and Lee; Back of the boy is Jackson, Jackson and Tippecanoe, Back of each son is Washington, And the old red, white and blue! (Quote by - Edmund Vance Cooke)
Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war. (Quote by - Marcus Annaeus Seneca)
The English Infantry is the most formidable in Europe, but fortunately there is not much of it. (Quote by - Thomas Robert duc d'Isly Bugeaud)
If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one would remain in the ranks (Quote by - Frederick The Great)
I have no complex about wealth. I have worked hard for my money, producing things people need. I believe that the able industrial leader who creates wealth and employment is more worthy of historical notice than politicians or soldiers. (Quote by - Paul Getty)
For it's Tommy this an' Tommy that, and Chuck 'im out, the brute. But it's Savior of 'is country, when the guns begin to shoot. (Quote by - Rudyard Kipling)
