“ Soldiers who are not afraid of guns, bombs, capture, torture or death say they are afraid of homosexuals. Clearly we should not be used as soldiers; we should be used as weapons. ”
- Anonymous- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children? ”
- Karl Kraus- Copy
- 86
“ 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. ”
- Dorothee Soelle- Copy
- 3.8K
“ If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one would remain in the ranks. ”
- Frederick The Great- Copy
- 3.6K
“ War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel. ”
- Niccolo Machiavelli- Copy
- 707
“ 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- Copy
- 3.2K
“ The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle. ”
- Heinrich Heine- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance. ”
- Lois McMaster Bujold- Copy
- 3.3K
“ There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create. ”
- Charles Baudelaire- Copy
- 2.5K
“ My soldiers ask of me, why surrender a military advantage in the field … I could not answer. ”
- General Douglas McArthur- Copy
- 581
“ Why you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, and th most audacious soldier, put them at a table together-and what do you get? The sum of their fears. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
- 1.4K
“ To be a good soldier, you must love the army. To be a good commander, you must be willing to order the death of the thing you love. ”
- Robert E. Lee- Copy
- 104
“ 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- Copy
- 1.7K
“ I respect every soldier, from every country, who serves beside us in the hard work of history. America is grateful, and America will not forget. ”
- George W. Bush- Copy
- 3.8K
“ It is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag who gives that protester the freedom to abuse and burn that flag. ”
- Zell Miller- Copy
- 1.6K
“ A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier. ”
- Gustave Flaubert- Copy
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“ He, therefore, who desires peace should prepare for war. He who aspires to victory should spare no pains to form his soldiers. And he who hopes for success should fight on principle, not chance. ”
- Vegetius- Copy
- 35
“ A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes- Copy
- 3.6K
“ A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments. ”
- Georg C. Lichtenberg- Copy
- 1K
“ A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers. ”
- Sebastien Roch Nicolas De Chamfort- Copy
- 1.2K
“ 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- Copy
- 642
“ Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war. ”
- Marcus Annaeus Seneca- Copy
- 3K
“ China has no income tax, no unemployment and not a single soldier outside its borders. ”
- En Lai Chou- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war. ”
- Allan Massie- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 2.8K
“ I am not willing to risk the lives of German soldiers for countries whose names we cannot spell properly. ”
- Volker Ruhe- Copy
- 2.6K
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