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Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?

Calvin & Hobbes

Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions

Jerry Falwell

There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.

Mary Stewart

Arjun chose Krishna, though Krishna had vowed to lay down his arms on the battlefield ... ... Krishna asked: "Why did you pick me, knowing I would not fight?" "I can handle the soldiers myself, O Krishna, if I have your presence to give me moral support. Some of your glory will surely rub off on me."

Mahabharata

Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.

Claude Arien Helvetius

Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives

Siegfried Sassoon

We are parlor soldiers. The rugged battle of fate, where strength is born, we shun.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.

Sun Tzu

Don't waste good iron for nails or good men for soldiers

Chinese Proverb

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

John Gay

The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.

Heinrich Heine

Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy

Claude Adrien Helvetius

Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal

Tupac Shakur

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.

Virginia Woolf

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

Will Rogers

Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war

Seneca

HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.

Ambrose Bierce

History is an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

Ambrose Bierce

War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists by cynics.

Chris Hedges

Christian soldiers armed with virtue- hearts afire with blind obsession, cannot see the difference 'twixt compassion and oppression

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When mighty roast beef was the Englishman's food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood-- Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England's roast beef.

Henry Fielding

No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war.

Phyllis Schlafly

If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one would remain in the ranks

Frederick The Great

Soldiers usually win the battles and generals get the credit for them.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

Harry Truman

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