Soldier Quotes - Page 15

The scene was not a happy one yet we looked upon it in the cold stoical spirit of a soldier; a slight chilling pang and then a return soul and body to the enemy before us.

Of course, I think it is legitimate for the Commander-in-Chief to be concerned for the safety of his soldiers.

I was most impressed with the professionalism of our soldiers stationed there, and I am now more confident than ever that that the operations at Guantanamo are being conducted in a humane and necessary manner.

America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America disunited, with a hundred thousand veterans ready for combat.

But it's been a great, humbling - and I've been very honored to have the opportunity to serve and to lead and to be the representative of our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who are in Washington. And it's been the greatest honor of my life.

War is killing the individual in it unless he has learned livingness - if he had it he wouldn't be a good soldier.

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

I see many soldiers; could I but see many warriors! "Uniform" one calleth what they wear; may it not be uniform what they therewith hide!

Three-quarters of a soldier's life is spent in aimlessly waiting about.

I do not want to criticize while my soldiers are still bleeding and dying in Iraq.

To maintain the harmony of authority and obedience, to chastise the proud, to protect the weak, to reward the deserving, to banish vice and idleness from his dominions, to secure the traveller and merchant, to restrain the depredations of the soldier, to cherish the labors of the husbandman, to encourage industry and learning, and, by an equal and moderate assessment, to increase the revenue, without increasing the taxes, are indeed the duties of a prince . . .

A soldier plods and groans, sweats and toils, he growls and curses, and at the end he dies.

I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat?

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.

I'm an amalgamation of what I've needed to be. Part scholar, part rebel, part nobleman, part Mistborn, and part soldier. Sometimes I don't even know myself. I had a devil of a time getting all those pieces to work together. And, just when I'm starting to get it figured out, the world up and ends on me.

The soldiers that didn't come back were the heroes. It's a roll of the dice. If a bullet has your name on it, you're a hero. If you hear a bullet go by, you're a survivor.

When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a labourer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do.

I want you to give all these chiefs of the soldiers here to understand that we are for peace, and that we have made peace, that we may not be mistaken by them for enemies.

A true woman always loves a real soldier.

Iran doesn't have any soldier in Syria, so how could Iran help me ?

In Defense of the World Order . . . U.S. soldiers would have to kill and die.

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

Our main battle has always been against Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers.

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.

I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion, and I will right myself like a soldier.