Famous quotes by Soldiers

"Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle"

George S. Patton, Soldier

"A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end"

George S. Patton, Soldier

"The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!"

George S. Patton, Soldier

"Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash!"

George S. Patton, Soldier

"Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable"

George S. Patton, Soldier

"War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want"

William Tecumseh Sherman, Soldier

"War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers"

William Tecumseh Sherman, Soldier

"There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them"

William Tecumseh Sherman, Soldier

"There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell"

William Tecumseh Sherman, Soldier

"The voice of the people is the voice of humbug"

William Tecumseh Sherman, Soldier

"The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war"

William Tecumseh Sherman, Soldier

"My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom"

William Tecumseh Sherman, Soldier

"It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped"

William Tecumseh Sherman, Soldier

"If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir"

William Tecumseh Sherman, Soldier

"If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking"

William Tecumseh Sherman, Soldier

"If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you!"

William Tecumseh Sherman, Soldier

"I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers"

William Tecumseh Sherman, Soldier

"I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes"

William Tecumseh Sherman, Soldier

"I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace"

William Tecumseh Sherman, Soldier

"I intend to make Georgia howl!"

William Tecumseh Sherman, Soldier

"I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are"

William Tecumseh Sherman, Soldier

"I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah"

William Tecumseh Sherman, Soldier

"Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster"

William Tecumseh Sherman, Soldier

"Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it"

William Tecumseh Sherman, Soldier

"An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army"

William Tecumseh Sherman, Soldier

"In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash"

Douglas MacArthur, Soldier

"In war there is no substitute for victory"

Douglas MacArthur, Soldier

"In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield"

Douglas MacArthur, Soldier

"I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I've done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?"

Douglas MacArthur, Soldier

"I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!"

Douglas MacArthur, Soldier

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