Famous quotes by Soldiers

"Bad as was being shot by some of our own troops in the battle of the Wilderness, - that was an honest mistake, one of the accidents of war, - being shot at, since the war, by many officers, was worse"

James Longstreet, Soldier

"A little before noon, I sent orders to all my batteries to open fire through the streets or at any points where the troops were seen about the city, as a diversion in favor of Jackson"

James Longstreet, Soldier

"There was no indication of panic. The broken files marched back in steady step. The effort was nobly made and failed from the blows that could not be fended"

James Longstreet, Soldier

"I cannot help but think that great results would have been obtained had my views been thought better of; yet I am much inclined to accept the present condition as for the best"

James Longstreet, Soldier

"My command, less than ten thousand, had found the battle on the Plank Road in retreat, little less than a panic. In a few hours we changed defeat to victory, the broken divisions of the Third Corps rallying in their rear"

James Longstreet, Soldier

"If the blame (if there is any) can be shifted from him to me, I shall help him and our cause by taking it. I desire, therefore, that all the responsibility that can be put upon me shall go there and shall remain there"

James Longstreet, Soldier

"I fancy that no good ideas upon that campaign will be mentioned at any time that did not receive their share of consideration by General Lee"

James Longstreet, Soldier

"Obviously, the greater the length of a war, the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side"

Douglas Haig, Soldier

"In a very short time the Army of Northern Virginia was face to face with the Army of the Potomac"

James Longstreet, Soldier

"She is elegant rather than belle"

Wilfred Owen, Soldier

"Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do?"

Wilfred Owen, Soldier

"Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both"

Wilfred Owen, Soldier

"If I have got to be a soldier, I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable"

Wilfred Owen, Soldier

"I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's"

Wilfred Owen, Soldier

"I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law"

Wilfred Owen, Soldier

"I don't ask myself, is the life congenial to me? But, am I fitted for, am I called to, the Ministry?"

Wilfred Owen, Soldier

"I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness"

Wilfred Owen, Soldier

"Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War"

Wilfred Owen, Soldier

"Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats and the rest of them wrote!"

Wilfred Owen, Soldier

"Be bullied, be outraged, by killed, but do not kill"

Wilfred Owen, Soldier

"Ambition may be defined as: the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose"

Wilfred Owen, Soldier

"All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me"

Wilfred Owen, Soldier

"All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want"

Wilfred Owen, Soldier

"All a poet can do today is warn"

Wilfred Owen, Soldier

"After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve"

Wilfred Owen, Soldier

"A Poem does not grow by jerks. As trees in spring produce a new ring of tissue, so does every poet put forth a fresh outlay of stuff at the same season"

Wilfred Owen, Soldier

"I would endeavour to deserve my life, Sire"

Thomas Blood, Soldier

"The English say, Yours Truly, and mean it. The Italians say, I kiss your feet, and mean, I kick your head"

Wilfred Owen, Soldier

"When I begin to eliminate from the list all those professions which are impossible from a financial point of view, and then those which I feel disinclined to-it leaves nothing"

Wilfred Owen, Soldier

"Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom"

Wilfred Owen, Soldier

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