Famous quotes by Soldiers

"Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory"

George S. Patton, Soldier

"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country"

George S. Patton, Soldier

"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity"

George S. Patton, Soldier

"War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over"

William Tecumseh Sherman, Soldier

"You may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion'"

William Tecumseh Sherman, Soldier

"War is at its best barbarism"

William Tecumseh Sherman, Soldier

"In our country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out"

William Tecumseh Sherman, Soldier

"I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want"

William Tecumseh Sherman, Soldier

"I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell"

William Tecumseh Sherman, Soldier

"But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter"

William Tecumseh Sherman, Soldier

"They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them"

Douglas MacArthur, Soldier

"The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other"

Douglas MacArthur, Soldier

"A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him"

Douglas MacArthur, Soldier

"It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy, which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear"

Douglas MacArthur, Soldier

"I've looked that old scoundrel Death in the eye many times, but this time I think he has me on the ropes"

Douglas MacArthur, Soldier

"I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes"

Douglas MacArthur, Soldier

"Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul"

Douglas MacArthur, Soldier

"The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself"

Robert Baden-Powell, Soldier

"The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others"

Robert Baden-Powell, Soldier

"The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond"

Robert Baden-Powell, Soldier

"Be Prepared... The meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise"

Robert Baden-Powell, Soldier

"A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances"

Robert Baden-Powell, Soldier

"With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents"

Omar N. Bradley, Soldier

"Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it"

Omar N. Bradley, Soldier

"Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death"

Omar N. Bradley, Soldier

"May I never sit on a tribunal where my friends shall not find more favor from me than strangers"

Themistocles, Soldier

"He who commands the sea has command of everything"

Themistocles, Soldier

"There is no more Palestine. Finished"

Moshe Dayan, Soldier

"The Jews have opened fire, and they are unready to begin a war"

Moshe Dayan, Soldier

"No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy"

Horatio Nelson, Soldier

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