Soldier Quotes - Page 11

Drinking is the soldier's pleasure.

Egypt firmly and strongly condemns such attacks on civilians and soldiers that led to the deaths of a large number of innocent victims.

The soldiers currently manning our sophisticated weaponry have room temperature IQ's.

Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.

Maybe a president who didn't believe our soldiers were going to heaven might be a little less willing to get them killed.

Drill your soldiers well, and give them a pattern yourself.

War has become an affair of machines...and soldiers are little more than clever mechanics.

A soldier's first duty is to obey, otherwise you might as well do away with soldiering.

A lot of my family is in army and it has always been inspirational for me to see them wearing the prestigious uniforms and their disciplined lifestyle. If I wasn't so passionate about cricket, I would have definitely been a soldier for my country.

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.

While I was serving, I worked as an adventure training officer, teaching soldiers how to ski, canoe and climb.

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.

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

You cannot demand military service of Christians any more than you can of priests. We do not go forth as soldiers with the Emperor even if he demands this.

The British soldier who thought himself superior, actually became so.

War is the spectacular and bloody projection of our everyday living. We precipitate war out of our daily lives; and without a transformation in ourselves, there are bound to be national and racial antagonisms, the childish quarreling over ideologies, the multiplication of soldiers, the saluting of flags, and all the many brutalities that go to create organized murder.

At Rest An American Soldier And Defender of the Constitution.

I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I've done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?

Every morning is a battle between the superego and the id, and I am a mere foot soldier with mud and a snooze button on her shield.

Put together a seaman, soldier and airman and what do you get? The sum of all fears.

...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.

For decades, our dependence on OPEC oil has dictated our national security decisions and tied us up in the Middle East at an incredible price. We've spent more than $5 trillion and thousands of American soldiers have died securing Middle East oil.

We want the Army to be society's model of fair treatment. We want to assure that all soldiers are treated fairly, not because it is necessary but because it is right. Those units that have the fewest incidents are those whose noncommissioned officers really know their men and take a personal interest in their welfare.

From 8,000 miles away... I would not judge a fellow soldier from a friendly nation and how they are employing their resources.

The first quality of a soldier is constancy in enduring fatigue and hardship. Courage is only the second. Poverty privation and want are the school of the good soldier.