Professions & Roles: Military & Soldier Quotes

Discover a collection of quotes honoring the service, sacrifice, and resilience of military professionals and soldiers. These selections reflect courage under pressure, steadfast duty, leadership in adversity, and the camaraderie that sustains teams in challenging times. From historical commanders to modern voices in uniform, find words that inspire reflection, motivation, and gratitude. Suitable for ceremonies, tributes, study, or personal encouragement, this set highlights values such as honor, discipline, and commitment to mission and team.

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"We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded"

Barack Obama, President

Barack Obama

"The sergeant is the Army"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity"

William Manchester, Historian

"If you want something that's going to provide you with a lot of challenges and a variety of different things to do, then you really can't beat a place like the Air Force. I don't mean this to sound like a recruiting pitch. But it's been a lot of fun"

Michael P. Anderson, Astronaut

Michael P. Anderson

"The Army damages itself when it doesn't live up to its own values"

Claudia Kennedy, Soldier

Claudia Kennedy

"The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten"

Calvin Coolidge, President

Calvin Coolidge

"I'm against the draft. I believe we should have a professional military; it might be smaller, but it would be more effective"

Jesse Ventura, Politician

"Benteen, come on, big village, be quick. Bring packs"

George Armstrong Custer, Soldier

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

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

Napoleon Bonaparte

"Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem"

Ronald Reagan, President

Ronald Reagan

"He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war"

William Tecumseh Sherman, Soldier

William Tecumseh Sherman

"The willingness of America's veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude"

Jeff Miller, Politician

Jeff Miller

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

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

Napoleon Bonaparte

"No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

Theodore Roosevelt

"I want to show to those who deprive people the right to love of country, that when we know how to sacrifice ourselves for our duties and convictions, death does not matter if one dies for those one loves – for his country and for others dear to him"

Jose Rizal, Writer

Jose Rizal

"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

Elizabeth I

"Old soldiers never die; they just fade away"

Douglas MacArthur, Soldier

Douglas MacArthur

"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

Rudyard Kipling

"Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes"

Gale Sayers, Athlete

Gale Sayers

"I congratulate you, my brave countrymen and fellow soldiers, on the spirit and success with which you have executed this important part of our enterprise"

James Wolfe, Soldier

"Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth"

Duke of Wellington, Royalty

Duke of Wellington

"Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows"

Siegfried Sassoon, Poet

Siegfried Sassoon

"The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger"

Andrew Jackson, President

Andrew Jackson

"Well, my father was in the Army and we traveled quite a bit when I was growing up, and I thought that I would like to have a military career, although I was drawn more towards the Navy"

Marc Garneau, Astronaut

Marc Garneau

"Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be"

Douglas MacArthur, Soldier

Douglas MacArthur

"I grew up in a military family, and there's something about that military-style uniform, all cleaned up, a brutal control effort the military necessarily breeds"

Max Cannon, Artist

Max Cannon

"I come from a district where the veterans are not the richest in the country"

Corrine Brown, Politician

Corrine Brown

"Veterans continue to get the short end of the stick when it comes to this administration"

Corrine Brown, Politician

Corrine Brown

"I never joined the army for patriotic reasons"

Isaac Rosenberg, Poet

Isaac Rosenberg

"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

"England expects that every man will do his duty"

Horatio Nelson, Soldier

Horatio Nelson

"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

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

Frederick II, Royalty

"We need to ensure our men and women in uniform are equipped with the very best money can buy. We also have to make sure critical military technologies are developed in America and that the U.S. defense manufacturing base remains healthy and strong"

Joe Lieberman, Politician

"I guess if you're stupid enough to join the army without thinking about getting shot at, then you really are a fool"

James Blunt, Musician

"I was in the Air Force and was a boom operator (in-flight refueling). I got my comedy start in the Air Force"

Sinbad, Comedian

Sinbad

"As full lines of battle could not be handled through the thick wood, I ordered the advance of the six brigades by heavy skirmish lines, to be followed by stronger supporting lines"

James Longstreet, Soldier

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

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

Napoleon Bonaparte

"The army is the true nobility of our country"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

Napoleon Bonaparte

"None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important"

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

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