Famous quotes by Soldiers

"He who stops being better stops being good"

Oliver Cromwell, 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

"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

"My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic"

Chiang Kai-shek, 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

"I ended the war a horse ahead"

Nathan Bedford Forrest, 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

"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

"My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity"

Wilfred Owen, Soldier

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

Anthony Wayne, Soldier

"We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it"

John Newton, Soldier

"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death"

Michel Aoun, Soldier

"There are few things more pleasing than the contemplation of order and useful arrangement"

Arthur Phillip, Soldier

"In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading"

J. F. C. Fuller, Soldier

"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 idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory"

Douglas Haig, Soldier

"I'll answer to none but the King himself"

Thomas Blood, Soldier

"The powers of Congress are totally inadequate to preserve the balance between the respective States, and oblige them to do those things which are essential for their own welfare or for the general good"

Henry Knox, Soldier

"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"The act of dying is one of the acts of life"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"Anger cannot be dishonest"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

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