"I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier"

"Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them"

"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"

"Old soldiers never die; they just fade away"

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

"Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war"

"Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition"

"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"

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

"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"

"Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier"