Soldier Quotes

Doolittle looked just like a little toy soldier the first time I ever saw him.

The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession.

As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.

India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.

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

Being a soldier, fighting for this country, is neither Republican nor Democrat.

In my early years, my father was away as a soldier in the war. When he came back, work was very difficult to come by. Even though he was a highly skilled man, a maker of furniture, the payment for that work was very poor.

The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian.

I don't think I could be a foot soldier. I don't know if I could take orders too good. I'm a little lazy.

Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier.

The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort.

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

My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier.

I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers.

President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn't kill anybody and he didn't get anyone killed.

The American soldier is quick in adapting himself to a new mode of living. Outfits which have been here only three days have dug vast networks of ditches three feet deep in the bare brown earth. They have rigged up a light here and there with a storage battery.

I get a certain feeling when I go to Lambeau field in Green Bay. Soldier field in Chicago is special to me. Those are the places that I really like. The stadiums.

If the Europeans want to intervene, that's their business. But if I were president, I would remove every United States soldier from the Balkan peninsula.

I always played a soldier, sailor, or policemen.

It seems as if everybody in the country was getting impatient to get his or her particular soldier out of the Army and to upset the carefully arranged system of points for retirement which we had arranged with the approval of the Army itself.

I would have been a disastrous soldier.

I mean, Emily Harris was his wife. And she seemed to resent his leadership, but on the other hand, she felt like a good soldier, that he had to be the leader.

I suppose that Heartland, Unknown Soldier and Pride and Joy represent not a quieter side but more of a serious side to my work, something I've been getting into recently.

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.

The soldier's main enemy is not the opposing soldier, but his own commander.

I appeal to you as a soldier to spare me the humiliation of seeing my regiment march to meet the enemy and I not share its dangers.

During 65 years, I have walked the path of duty and discipline... And today, looking back at that long path of service, my soldier's heart stirs and murmurs from deep within: Thank you. Thank you, my homeland.

The entire deaths of Vietnam died in vain. And they're dying in vain right this very second. And you know what's worse than a soldier dying in vain? It's more soldiers dying in vain. That's what's worse.