"Like the American soldiers who went before them, they are putting their lives on the line to protect ours"

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

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

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

"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"

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

"The first song is called "London." It's about two Russian soldiers who desert the Russian army and escape to London, where they indulge in a life of crime"

"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"

"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"