Famous quotes by Soldiers

"If the tanks succeed, then victory follows"

Heinz Guderian, Soldier

"Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good"

Norman Schwarzkopf, Soldier

"Months of preparation, one of those few opportunities, and the judgment of a split second are what makes some pilot an ace, while others think back on what they could have done"

Pappy Boyington, Soldier

"Everything in war is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult"

Karl Von Clausewitz, Soldier

"War is the continuation of politics by other means"

Karl Von Clausewitz, Soldier

"National Socialism and Christianity are irreconcilable"

Martin Bormann, Soldier

"Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not"

Xenophon, Soldier

"A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor"

Xenophon, Soldier

"Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind"

William Westmoreland, Soldier

"My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible"

George Armstrong Custer, Soldier

"I have entered the field to die, if need be, for this government, and never expect to return to peaceful pursuits until the object of this war of preservation has become a fact established"

John A. Logan, Soldier

"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

"Leadership is not what you preach. It's what you tolerate"

Jocko Willink, Soldier

"Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain, subdues the rage of poison, and the plague"

John Armstrong, Soldier

"I don't want to write every week, it's too much trouble, and I shall only write when I want something. If you think I'm sick when I don't write, you can send for me to come and tell you"

Robert Gould Shaw, Soldier

"The intrusions of the white race and the non- compliance with treaty obligations have been followed by atrocities that could alone satisfy a savage and revengeful spirit"

Nelson A. Miles, Soldier

"I have not been able to get any grain yet. It is all in the country, and the people talk instead of working"

John Buford, Soldier

"We bear a heavy and therefore a great destiny"

Alfred Rosenberg, Soldier

"If the guilt of sin is so great that nothing can satisfy it but the blood of Jesus; and the filth of sin is so great that nothing can fetch out the stain thereof but the blood of Jesus, how great, how heinous, how sinful must the evil of sin be?"

William Throsby Bridges, Soldier

"I was tortured fifteen times, that's total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double"

James Stockdale, Soldier

"It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy"

Philip Sidney, Soldier

"Feed the troops on victory"

John Monash, Soldier

"As to war, I am and always was a great enemy, at the same time a warrior, the greater part of my life, and were I young again, should still be a warrior while ever this country should be invaded and I lived"

Daniel Morgan, Soldier

"We become what we do"

Chiang Kai-shek, Soldier

"You can divide my life into two"

Lord Mountbatten, Soldier

"The best doctors and the best hospitals in America, if they cannot get the patient information they need when they need it, it can lead to morbid consequences: higher mortality"

Timothy Murphy, Soldier

"During war, the laws are silent"

Quintus Tullius Cicero, Soldier

"A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder"

Chester W. Nimitz, Soldier

"Issue the orders, Sir, and I will storm Hell"

Anthony Wayne, Soldier

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