Soldier Quotes

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.

I found my first novel difficult. I don't want to make it sound like it's any more difficult than driving a cab or going to any other job, but there are so many opportunities for self-doubt, that you just kind of need to soldier on.

Just because I was almost 62, I did not feel decrepit and felt I wasn't finished being a soldier yet.

To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.

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

I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.

The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind.

To be a soldier one needs that special gene, that extra something, that enables a person to jump into one on one combat, something, after all, that is unimaginable to most of us, as we are simply not brave enough.

I know that I'm already in the history books and that people are going to remember me as the prisoner of war and the fabricated stories, but you know, to me I was just another soldier over there doing my job.

A true woman always loves a real soldier.

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

The De Bernieres were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier.

The last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me.

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.

When I introduced a black soldier, Lt. Flap, in 1971, the Stars and Stripes banned the strip. They were having racial problems and thought it would increase the tensions.

The glory of the old Irish nation, which in our hour will grow young and strong again. Should we fail, the country will not be worth more than it is now. The sword of famine is less sparing than the bayonet of the soldier.

Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.

Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.

Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.