Soldier Quotes: Courage and Valor on the Battlefield

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

Eli Khamarov, Writer

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

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

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

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"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, Actor

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

Sallust, Historian

"Old soldiers never die; they just fade away"

Douglas MacArthur, Soldier

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

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

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

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

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

Virginia Woolf, Author

"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, Poet

"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"

Neil Tennant, Musician

"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, Statesman

"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, Writer

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

William Lyon Mackenzie King, Politician

"This conflict is one thing I've been waiting for. I'm well and strong and young - young enough to go to the front. If I can't be a soldier, I'll help soldiers"

Clara Barton, Public Servant

"Firefighters are indispensable foot soldiers here at home"

Christopher Dodd, Politician

"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, Leader

"If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say?"

Charles Schumer, Politician

"The soldier's main enemy is not the opposing soldier, but his own commander"

Ramman Kenoun

"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, Politician

"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, Politician

"Consideration of any kind are a crime against the German people and the soldier at the front"

Wilhelm Keitel, Celebrity

"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, Politician

"I could not have the honour of being a German soldier because of my imprisonment in the First World War. And in this world war the Fuehrer refuses to allow me to serve as a soldier"

Fritz Sauckel, Soldier

"In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"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, Dramatist

"The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head"

Euripides, Poet

"The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

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

Thomas Jefferson, President

"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, President

"God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at least they prevent us from being frightened by them"

Elizabeth I, Royalty

"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, Artist

"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, Philosopher

"Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs"

Desmond Morris, Scientist

"The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable"

Benito Mussolini, Politician

"An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"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, President

"Every lover is a soldier"

Ovid, Poet

"I believe that the purpose for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them, and that, had this been done, the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation"

Siegfried Sassoon, Poet

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