Famous quotes by Soldiers

"Could I have but a line, a century hence, crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war"

Douglas MacArthur, Soldier

"Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory"

Douglas MacArthur, Soldier

"And like the old soldier in that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the sight to see that duty"

Douglas MacArthur, Soldier

"Americans never quit!"

Douglas MacArthur, Soldier

"Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it"

Douglas MacArthur, Soldier

"A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding"

Douglas MacArthur, Soldier

"Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live"

Douglas MacArthur, Soldier

"Our country is now geared to an arms economy, bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear"

Douglas MacArthur, Soldier

"One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda"

Douglas MacArthur, Soldier

"My first recollection is that of a bugle call"

Douglas MacArthur, Soldier

"Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye"

Douglas MacArthur, Soldier

"When you want a thing done, 'Don't do it yourself' is a good motto for Scoutmasters"

Robert Baden-Powell, Soldier

"Trust should be the basis for all our moral training"

Robert Baden-Powell, Soldier

"To get a hold on boys, you must be their friend"

Robert Baden-Powell, Soldier

"Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader"

Robert Baden-Powell, Soldier

"See things from the boy's point of view"

Robert Baden-Powell, Soldier

"If you make listening and observation your occupation, you will gain much more than you can by talk"

Robert Baden-Powell, Soldier

"Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment"

Robert Baden-Powell, Soldier

"A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim"

Robert Baden-Powell, Soldier

"We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living"

Omar N. Bradley, Soldier

"We have grasped the mystery of the atom, and rejected the Sermon on the Mount"

Omar N. Bradley, Soldier

"Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead"

Omar N. Bradley, Soldier

"This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live"

Omar N. Bradley, Soldier

"The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts"

Omar N. Bradley, Soldier

"In a completely integrated unit where you'd have white soldiers, particularly from southern states, serving under black noncommissioned officers or officers... I think you would have a problem definitely"

Omar N. Bradley, Soldier

"If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner"

Omar N. Bradley, Soldier

"I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit, and to mothball his opinions"

Omar N. Bradley, Soldier

"I never learned how to tune a harp, or play upon a lute; but I know how to raise a small and obscure city to glory and greatness...Whereto all kindreds of the earth will pilgrim"

Themistocles, Soldier

"The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you"

Themistocles, Soldier

"I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion"

Themistocles, Soldier

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