Soldier Quotes - Page 5

I'll likely be married to the soldier mob for better and for worse to live and to die.

This whole society, up to now, has been very violent with the individual. It does not believe in the individual; it is against the individual. It tries in every possible way to destroy you for its own purposes. It needs clerks, it needs stationmasters, deputy-collectors, policemen, magistrates, it needs soldiers. It does not need human beings.

To be a successful soldier, you must know history.

The only thing that makes battle psychologically tolerable is the brotherhood among soldiers. You need each other to get by.

Get there first with the most men.

In previous armies, soldiers used their time to clean their weapons and stock up on ammunition. Our weapons are words, and we may need our arsenal at any moment.

and I wonder if Beethoven held his breath the first time his fingers touched the keys the same way a soldier holds his breath the first time his finger clicks the trigger. We all have different reasons for forgetting to breathe.

We are the only country who is an ally of the United States that never asked for American soldiers.

The most vital quality a soldier can possess is self-confidence.

China has no income tax, no unemployment and not a single soldier outside its borders.

Hitherto I have served you as a soldier; allow me now to become a soldier to God. Let the man who is to serve you receive your donative. I am a soldier of Christ; it is not permissible for me to fight.

The tactics...no, amateurs discuss tactics,.... Professional soldiers study logistics.

Blacks, soldiers, and Jews are a menace to the race.

We're not really pacifists, we're nonviolent soldiers.

War is then not a relationship between one man and another, but a relationship between one State and another, in which individuals are enemies only by accident, not as men, nor even as citizens, but as soldiers; not as members of the fatherland, but as its defenders. Finally, any State can only have other States, and not men, as enemies, inasmuch as it is impossible to fix a true relation between things of different natures.

The moment the first American soldier sets foot on the Japanese mainland, all prisoners of war will be shot.

The soldier does not wish to appear a coward, disloyal, or un-American. The situation has been so defined that he can see himself as patriotic, courageous, and manly only through compliance.

There's only one way for a professional soldier to die. That's from the last bullet of the last battle of the last war.

Good soldiers, bad officers; however don't forget that without them we would not have any Civilization.

A good soldier, whether he leads a platoon or an army, is expected to look backward as well as forward; but he must think only forward.

A smoke in times of rest is a great companion to the solitary soldier.

I believe German soldiers are good and decent, and if they did anything wrong it was because of military necessity.

I accept responsibility for U-boat warfare from 1933 onward, and of the entire navy from 1943 on, but to make me responsible for what happened to Jews in Germany, or Russian soldiers on the east front it is so ridiculous all I can do is laugh.

Private Manning is the world's pre-eminent prisoner of conscience, having remained true to the Nuremberg principle that every soldier has the right to 'a moral choice.' His suffering mocks the notion of the land of the free.

An Israeli woman is not like women in our societies, because she is a soldier.