Soldier Quotes

More than half the combat deaths in Vietnam occurred after Richard Nixon was elected on a promise to bring the war to an end, and after the American people had already decided that they did not want one more soldier to die in Vietnam.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

I, Philip Kearny, an old soldier, enter my solemn protest against this order for retreat.

The weapon of the advocate is the sword of the soldier, not the dagger of the assassin.

But to the fighting soldier that phase of the war is behind. It was left behind after his first battle. His blood is up. He is fighting for his life, and killing now for him is as much a profession as writing is for me.

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

And Oliver North was really a good soldier, up to the last moment, shoving memos into the shredder and defending the policy to the end.

I had repeatedly made written requests to the Fuehrer that I might be allowed to join the Wehrmacht as an ordinary soldier. He refused to give me this permission.

There's something about an American soldier you can't explain. They're so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them.

Consideration of any kind are a crime against the German people and the soldier at the front.

Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.

Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.

There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either.

No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or an unmanned airplane.

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.

Sharpe is my favorite role of all that I've played. He's a very complex character. He knows that he's a good soldier, but he will always have to fight the prejudice of aristocratic officers because of his rough working-class upbringing. On the battlefield, he's full of confidence - but off it, he is unsure, a bit shy and ill at ease.

'The Dictator' lands somewhere between wan Mel Brooks and good Adam Sandler, whose 'You Don't Mess With the Zohan,' about an Israeli Special Forces soldier at a hair salon, manages to strike better contrasts with vaguely similar culture differences - it's a nuttier movie, too.

The sensors have many potential practical uses - in Government buildings, train carriages, cargo containers, on a soldier's lapel - and are a thousand times cheaper than current sensors that are used for the same purpose.

Moreover, broad plans commensurate with our national purpose and resources would bring conviction of our power to every soldier in the front line, to the nations associated with us in the war, and to the enemy.

I want to be a soldier as my father was.

I could not have the honour of being a German soldier because of my imprisonment in the First World War. And in this world war the Fuehrer refuses to allow me to serve as a soldier.

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.

I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.

Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier.

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend.

And the program was developed in large part by behavioral scientists who were working with the military, who do everything they possibly can to measure a soldier's stress levels to see how they're doing physically and emotionally, as they go through this program.

I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat?