Soldier Quotes

"My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20"

Mary Wesley, Novelist

"Our soldiers have done a valiant effort in fighting terrorism and bringing a semblance of law and order to the chaos in the region and it would be shortsighted to lay out a specific timetable to bring U.S. troops home prematurely before their mission is accomplished"

James T. Walsh, Politician

"All the rest of us - you and me and even the thousands of soldiers behind the lines in Africa - we want terribly yet only academically for the war to get over"

Ernie Pyle, Journalist

"There cannot be any better cross-section of America and I think the soldiers represent the best we have. Today's soldiers are brighter and smarter, perhaps in a different way, than past generations because they've been brought up in the computer and information age"

Gerald Griffin, Author

"I appeal to you as a soldier to spare me the humiliation of seeing my regiment march to meet the enemy and I not share its dangers"

George Armstrong Custer, Soldier

"You can make children believe whatever you want, and the children of today are the soldiers and mothers of tomorrow"

Dudley Nichols, Screenwriter

"But it's been a great, humbling - and I've been very honored to have the opportunity to serve and to lead and to be the representative of our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who are in Washington. And it's been the greatest honor of my life"

Hugh Shelton, Soldier

"Soldiers and peasants lived together on friendly terms; they knew each other and their everyday routines, and trusted each other; they shook their heads together over the war"

Ernst Toller, Playwright

"These soldiers deserve a better defense secretary than the one we have"

Bill Kristol, Politician

"There's another issue here - and I have some limits as to what I can say - but there's some real question as to the viability of the chemical masks, the protective gear used by our soldiers"

Christopher Shays, Politician

"Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole"

Bernard Law Montgomery, Soldier

"One doesn't become a soldier in a week - it takes training, study and discipline. There is no question that the finest Army in the world is found in the United States"

Daniel Inouye, Politician

"Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war"

Allan Massie

"The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind"

Samuel E. Morison, Historian

"We're quickly moving to the point where we will have no military bases in the Northeast, and this undermines support for the military. We are a nation of citizen soldiers"

Rob Simmons, Politician

"I apologize to coalition forces and all the families, detainees, the families, America and all the soldiers"

Lynndie England, Criminal

"The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth"

Thomas J. Jackson, Soldier

"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, Author

"We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?"

A. B. Yehoshua, Novelist

"I don't think so, but it's always in the back of my mind that many of the soldiers being wounded and killed in Iraq are about the same age as my kids. My godson is going over soon, so the war's about to get personal for me"

Garry Trudeau, Cartoonist

"Americans, particularly after World War II, tended to romanticize war because in World War II our cause was the cause of humanity, and our soldiers brought home glory and victory, and thank God that they did. But it led us to romanticize it to some extent"

Neil Sheehan, Journalist

"Were British protesters, armed with little more than a frisbee and a bag of plastic toy soldiers, really in danger of being shot by the US military in Gloucestershire?"

Mark Thomas, Comedian

"We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was listening to the free radio stations and I noticed that during their war coverage they were playing these songs born out of the Vietnam War that were all critical of the soldiers"

Joni Mitchell, Musician

"Being a soldier, fighting for this country, is neither Republican nor Democrat"

Max Cleland, Politician

"And Oliver North was really a good soldier, up to the last moment, shoving memos into the shredder and defending the policy to the end"

Bobby Ray Inman, Soldier

"The day after the prison was transferred to the military intelligence command, they had an entire battalion - 1,200, 1,500 soldiers - arrive at Abu Ghraib just for force protection alone"

Janis Karpinski, Soldier

"I had 16 other prisons that I needed to pay attention to, and we did. And I had 3,400 soldiers who were depending on me to take care of them, and I did"

Janis Karpinski, Soldier

"And shortly after that, when I try to get access to those soldiers, to ask them what in the world was going on, I was told that they did not work for me and I had no right to have access to any one of them"

Janis Karpinski, Soldier

"Our brave soldiers and support personnel are engaged in a battle as important as any the United States has ever before waged, for the success of democracy in Iraq is a crucial test of the ideals this Nation was founded upon"

Virginia Foxx, Politician

"If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army"

Frederick II, Royalty

"I knew that if the feat was accomplished it must be at a most fearful sacrifice of as brave and gallant soldiers as ever engaged in battle"

John B. Hood, Soldier

"No American soldier should be allowed to set foot on Iranian soil, regardless of the criticism we have of the Iranian government"

Shirin Ebadi, Lawyer

"During a trip to Iraq last fall, I visited our theater hospital at Balad Air Force Base and witnessed these skilled medical professionals in action and met the brave soldiers whose lives they saved"

Melissa Bean, Politician

"Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions"

Jerry Falwell, Clergyman

"To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill"

Patrick MacGill, Journalist

"First we attacked the Russian soldiers with our gases, and then when we saw the poor fellows lying there, dying slowly, we tried to make breathing easier for them by using our own life-saving devices on them"

Otto Hahn, Scientist

"From 8,000 miles away... I would not judge a fellow soldier from a friendly nation and how they are employing their resources"

Peter Pace

"If you are charged with this responsibility of enhancing interrogations, or using soldiers to enhance interrogations to find Saddam, and you're above the law for all practical purposes, you might try some unusual techniques. Now we know that, in fact, they did"

Janis Karpinski, Soldier

"When the bus or the plane rolled or flew through the night, they sang songs of their own composition about Mr Nixon and the Republicans in chorus with the Kennedy staff and felt that they, too, were marching like soldiers of the Lord to the New Frontier"

Theodore White, Journalist

"My son is not wild about going back to Iraq, but he'd sure rather do that than sacrifice all that he and his fellow soldiers have accomplished by leaving too early and inviting chaos"

Kit Bond, Politician

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