Soldier Quotes - Page 7

In researching this volume, I interviewed veterans who had been at the front during World War II. I read countless books, examined film footage, and listened to many detailed and intense stories firsthand, but the one comment that affected me the most came from a former soldier who lowered his gaze to the tabletop and said, ‘I never watch war movies.

If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say?

It isn't right to be obedient only when things go well; it is much harder to be a good, obedient soldier when things go badly and times are hard. Obedience and faith at such time is a virtue.

The Syrian regime is helping the insurgency in Iraq and allowing all kinds of militants to come in and out, and go to Iraq to attack random soldiers and innocent people.

I'm a soldier who didn't know how nasty the battle was going to be, and now, I've got a purple heart and I'm back.

A preacher must be both soldier and shepherd. He must nourish, defend, and teach; he must have teeth in his mouth, and be able to bite and fight.

My son Hannibal will be a great general, because of all my soldiers he best knows how to obey.

Say what you will, nothing can make a complete soldier except battle experience.

A soldier never dies. His blood makes the grass green for his children.

You know a constellation of imperishable values. Live by the mighty truth and power of God. Live above the sludge of a sick society. Live among dispirited humans as the vanguard of peace and good news. Remember, our Commander in Chief has no use for tin soldiers.

Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.

For every Seaman of Industry and Ingenuity, is not only a Navigator, but a Merchant, and also a Soldier.

War loses a great deal of its romance after a soldier has seen his first battle.

To expect ... the same service from raw and undisciplined recruits, as from veteran soldiers, is to expect what never did and perhaps never will happen. Men, who are familiarized to danger, meet it without shrinking; whereas troops unused to service often apprehend danger where no danger is.

How long would authority ... exist, if not for the willingness of the mass to become soldiers, policemen, jailers, and hangmen.

One can be a soldier without dying and a lover without sighing.

For the helmsman is recognized in the tempest; in the warfare the soldier is proved.

Refusing further service as a Roman soldier: I am a soldier of Christ: combat is not permitted to me.

The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.

The military is a very cool world to write about. I went down to Ft. Benning, Ga., for military training, and I learned a lot about soldiers and officers and why they joined up and what their life has been like.

It takes a real man to make a true confession-a Chocolate Soldier will excuse or cloak his sin.

Without excuse and self-consideration of health or limb or life, true soldiers fight, live to fight, love the thickest of the fight, and die in the midst of it.

One's soldier should not abuse the enemy. 'Arouse a bee and it will come at you with the force of a dragon.

At 19, your brain hasn't finished wiring itself. So the first time you have a good friend die, most people don't go through that at 19. Soldiers do. They're facing life in this accelerated, compressed form, and a lot of times, they're not ready for it.

A warrior with a cause is the most dangerous soldier of all