Soldier Quotes - Page 23

I remember the Korean War very well. And I remember the soldiers who were POWs who supposedly were "brainwashed," quote, unquote, who gave in, so to speak. And when they came back, they were treated like pariahs and traitors.

Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved; and to be steady on all the battlefield besides, is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.

I try to be a good cop. I try to be a good little soldier and follow orders up to a point. But in the end I’m not really a cop, or a soldier. I am a legally sanctioned murderer. I am the Executioner.

Brian Turner has given us not so much a memoir as a mediation, rendered with grace and wit and wisdom. If you want to know what modern soldiers see when they look at their world, read this book.

As a soldier and combat veteran, I believe American military forces should only be used in the defense and furtherance of our nation's vital interests.

The Maid and her soldiers will have the victory. Therefore the Maid is willing that you, Duke of Bedford, should not destroy yourself.

I cannot understand a society that is more afraid of a man in a dress than a man in a soldier’s uniform.

Then there was the war, and I married it because there was nothing else when I reached the age of falling in love.

There must be some good in the life of battle, for so many good men have enjoyed being soldiers.

The war imbued my tin soldiers with quite a new interest. It was impossible to have boxes enough of them.

Yeah, I know a lot of soldiers. I know soldiers who don't like to hear thank you for your service. And I know soldiers that do like to be told thank you for your service. The ones who don't like to be told are the ones who've been through serious sh*t. They don't care about feedback. They did their job. They did what they have to do. Sometimes the people that thank them are exactly the ones they don't want to be thanked by.

Armies are a purely human invention. Most soldiers who go to war nowadays don't even do it because they're inherently aggressive.

The one weapon every man, soldier, sailor, or airman should be able to use effectively is the rifle.

Women's roles are diminished for obvious reasons. It's the men whose names are on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and who were generals and soldiers.

The most common way to identify a soldier is by the disc around his neck. But these were made of compressed cardboard and so they've all but disappeared.

The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.

You never can predict things. I knew the movie Peducted would get a reaction, because it's showing a different vision of our soldiers in Iraq. All we ever get told is that they're valued and we support them, and as they're represented on television, they're true-blue and honorable. Which is true, for the most part.

Congress is responsible for everything and unable to do anything, hated by the public creditors, insulted by the soldiers and unsupported by the citizens.

I am also deeply concerned with the widespread, often undiagnosed, incidents of PTSD and the alarming suicide rates amongst our returning soldiers.

I am a person always full of contradictions... It was hard to choose whether to devote myself to revolution as a soldier or as a writer.

It is as a soldier that you make love and as a lover that you make war.

According to what the IDF says to its soldiers. I don't know if this is what the IDF says to the media.

Tikka Khan was a soldier doing a soldier's job.

Roger Ebert was a very valiant soldier of cinema who passed away, and we miss him. It's over with serious discourse about cinema in the print media and on television. It has been replaced by celebrity news. So we are speaking in his spirit always.

George Bush is guilty of murder for the deaths of over 4000 young American soldiers who have died in the Iraqi war.