Soldier Quotes - Page 8

American soldiers had to guard prisoners on the inside while receiving mortar and weapons fire from the outside. Guantanamo is distant from any battlefield, making it far more secure.

Only the soldier is a free man, because he can look death in the face.

It's hard for me to imagine that some people in the CIA who had firsthand knowledge would be unable to recognize that this would be helpful information for a soldier's death.

...commerce, which is mistakenly classified among the productive forms of work, ought to be ranked first among the parasitical professions like those of monk, soldier, lawyer etc.

Air Power is, above all, a psychological weapon - and only short-sighted soldiers, too battle-minded, underrate the importance of psychological factors in war.

If in a battle, I seize a bit of debatable land with a handful of soldiers, without having done anything to prevent an enemy bombardment of the position, would it ever occur to me to speak of a conquest of the terrain in question? Obviously not. Then why should I do so in chess?

After 15 years of work I have achieved, as a common German soldier and merely with my fanatical willpower, the unity of the German nation, and have freed it from the death sentence of Versailles.

Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman never gave offence to anyone not even the enemy.

Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragraphs, and stories. One letter falls, and the entire language falters.

Every German soldier must be made to feel that he is living under the muzzle of a Russian gun.

For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it.

Maybe the ultimate wound is the one that makes you miss the war you got it in.

Kill every enemy twice, Wilky said. Better than gettin' shot by a soldier pretending to be dead.

Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had disintegrated.

Any child soldier has to go through a lot of love, care and understanding to become normal.

Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you.

The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.

A coward dies a thousand times, a soldier dies but once.

And it was as if fate had betrayed the soldier. In death it exposed to his enemies that poverty which in life he had perhaps concealed from his friends.

We are soldiers of the cross, we've been found to reach the lost.

Every single war that you see go down is illegal. They're breaking the Geneva Convention, and they're breakin' all kinds of sh*t they ain't supposed to be. All these soldiers that's dyin', every talkin' about, "Support our troops, support our troops," yeah we support our troops, but what are they fightin' for? Let's support 'em for the right reason. Let's tell our troops the truth, and maybe they wouldn't be out there fightin' these wars, because there are a lot of these troops that don't even wanna be out there if you talk to them.

Glory to the heroic soldiers of the Korean People's Army!

I'm still a soldier, fighting with my pen and paper for peace till the day I cease.

Old soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries.

No matter how hard it gets, I’d rather be a soldier drowning in my own blood than a coward in my own piss