"The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly no engineers and mechanics. Let Yankees adopt such low callings"

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

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

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

"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"

"If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say?"

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

"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"

"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"