Soldier Quotes - Page 18

The blurring of the line between policy and strategy] encouraged soldiers to make the preposterous claim that policy should be subservient to their conduct of operations, and (especially in democratic countries) it drew the statesman on to overstep the definite border of his sphere and interfere with his military employees in the actual use of their tools.

Liberals are hopping mad because Rush Limbaugh referred to phony soldiers as "phony soldiers." They claim he was accusing all Democrats in the military of being "phony." True, all Democrats in the military are not phony soldiers, but all phony soldiers seem to be Democrats.

I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier.

Part of a soldier's duty is to fill gaps...one must be willing to be nothing, as something.

The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.

Israel is the largest American aircraft carrier in the world that cannot be sunk, does not carry even one American soldier, and is located in a critical region for American national security.

Unprovoked attacks on Israel's borders, murdering Israeli soldiers, taking Israeli hostages and showering rockets targeting and killing Israeli civilians are not furthering any legitimate goal.

It is a sure criterion of the civilisation of ancient Egypt that the soldiers did not carry arms except on duty, and that the private citizens did not carry them at all.

'Tis the soldier's life to have their balmy slumbers waked with strife.

Go, bid the soldiers shoot.

We will never walk away from Israel ... Many of us are worried about heaven. Heaven is your reward. You are here as soldiers to take on the enemy.

I see you have returned, my love; and your mood is as dark as ever. Did your soldiers not adore you to your complete satisfaction?

Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er.

What is the world, O soldiers? It is I, I, this incessant snow, This northern sky.

How red the rose that is the soldier

I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.

I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.

Have not I myself known five hundred living soldiers sabred into crows' meat for a piece of glazed cotton, which they call their flag; which had you sold it at any market-cross, would not have brought above three groschen?

When the bus or the plane rolled or flew through the night, they sang songs of their own composition about Mr Nixon and the Republicans in chorus with the Kennedy staff and felt that they, too, were marching like soldiers of the Lord to the New Frontier.

When the soldiers stand leaning on their spears, they are faint from want of food.

The great actors we had came from the actor-manager theaters. Not only did they create a team, they were the generals working with the soldiers.

I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.

No American soldier should be allowed to set foot on Iranian soil, regardless of the criticism we have of the Iranian government.

It is painful to talk about it, but even with its 110,000 elite soldiers, the Soviet Union never managed to gain control over the entire Afghan territory.

The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.