Soldiers Quotes

There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.

Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely and systematically that might is not right.

G. K. Chesterton

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

Mary Stewart

The first who was king was a fortunate soldier: Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

Voltaire

Every lover is a soldier and has his camp in Cupid.

Ovid

The most vital quality a soldier can possess is self-confidence, utter, complete and bumptious.

George Patton

As an old soldier, I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little.

George Bernard Shaw

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.

Jose Narosky

The best soldiers are not warlike

Chinese Proverb

Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.

Euripides

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

When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.

Benito Mussolini

I never expect a soldier to think.

George Bernard Shaw

Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.

Eli Khamarov

Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman never gave offence to anyone not even the enemy.

A. J. P. Taylor

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

George Bernard Shaw

When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.

George Washington

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are called heroes

Robert Maynard Hutchins

By the apostle Paul, shadows tonight Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers.

William Shakespeare