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.

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.

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

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.

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

In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.
Jose Narosky

The best soldiers are not warlike

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

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.

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

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

The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.

I never expect a soldier to think.

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.

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

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

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.







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