Soldier Quotes

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

Free, State, Citizen

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.
Pablo Picasso

Mother, Said, Become

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

Today, Tomorrow, General

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

Die, Daring, Strongest

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
Douglas MacArthur

Peace, War, Others

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

Citizen, Aside, Assumed

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

War, Hate, Stupidity

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.
George Bernard Shaw

Young, Old, Tell

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
George Bernard Shaw

War, Stand, Office

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

Fight, Long, Hard

On the battlefield, the military pledges to leave no soldier behind. As a nation, let it be our pledge that when they return home, we leave no veteran behind.
Dan Lipinski

Home, Nation, Leave

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

Fighting, Worth, Salt

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

Courage, Endurance, Second

As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he's a great military man, I want you to know that.
Norman Schwarzkopf

Great, Far, Military

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.
Rudyard Kipling

Women, Left, Brains

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

Choice, Final, Heavy

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.
Marlene Dietrich

Grateful, American, Film

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

War, Means, Mothers

I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I've done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?
Douglas MacArthur

Life, Time, Done

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

Seaman, Merchant

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
Otto von Bismarck

War, Hard, Eyes

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.
Ulysses S. Grant

Peace, War, Means

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.
Laurence J. Peter

Seaman, Stories, Sheep

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.
Douglas MacArthur

God, Career, Him

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

Best, Amazing, Dad

There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
Charles Baudelaire

Respect, Three, Create

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

Positive, War, Dangerous

Every lover is a soldier.
Ovid

A true woman always loves a real soldier.
Belle Boyd

True, Woman, Real

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

Country, Fighting, Makes

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