Soldiers Quotes

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
Colin Powell

Leadership, Failure, Care

Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.
Sun Tzu

Death, Children, Stand

America's fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed.
Allen Boyd

Women, Great, Men

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.
Will Rogers

War, Week, Fall

An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
Thomas Paine

Cannot, Army, Principles

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
Ambrose Bierce

History, False, Fools

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Win, Credit, Battles

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Men, War, Brave

If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.
Sun Tzu

Money, Long, Lives

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
H. L. Mencken

War, Heroes, Ten

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
Charles Spurgeon

Best, Lord, Affliction

When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Fire, Eyes, Rank

No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote.
Hillary Clinton

War, Courage, Brave

If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.
Howard Zinn

Power, Society, Control

Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.
Euripides

Head, Ten, Beat

Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.
P. J. O'Rourke

Training, Unfair, Police

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
Douglas MacArthur

Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions.
Jerry Falwell

Ask, Questions, Slaves

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
Virginia Woolf

War, Between, Far

From the bitter cold winter at Valley Forge, to the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq, our soldiers have courageously answered when called, gone where ordered, and defended our nation with honor.
Solomon Ortiz

Honor, Nation, Cold

Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
Sallust

Good, Money, Honesty

Here's how I think of my money - as soldiers - I send them out to war everyday. I want them to take prisoners and come home, so there's more of them.
Kevin O'Leary

Money, Home, War

All soldiers who serve their country and put their lives at risk need to know that if something happens to them, their families will be well taken care of. That's the bond we have with our military men and women and their families.
Jeff Sessions

Women, Men, Care

As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Men, Struggle, Battle

Many of our soldiers are stationed at Camp Coyote just south of the Iraqi border. This is how you know we have a strong army, when you can actually tell your enemy exactly where your camp is and what its name is.
Jon Stewart

Strong, Enemy, Tell

The soldiers did go away and their towns were torn down; and in the Moon of Falling Leaves (November), they made a treaty with Red Cloud that said our country would be ours as long as grass should grow and water flow.
Black Elk

Long, Down, Country

For some individuals - some soldiers, some contractors - combat provides a kind of purpose and meaning beyond which all else potentially pales in comparison.
Kathryn Bigelow

Else, Purpose, Meaning

Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.
Lin Yutang

Peace, Justice, Liberty

Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done.
John Keegan

Courage, Loyalty, Done

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
William Tecumseh Sherman

War, Serious, Matter

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