Quotes About Service

The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.

I am a soldier. That is who I am. That is what I do.

One of the things that makes our military the best in the world is the certain knowledge of each soldier, sailor, airman, and Marine that they can always count on their comrades should they need help - that they will never be abandoned.

Mike Hall was my old friend and, more important, the finest soldier I'd ever known. After over 30 years of service and then 18 months at a good civilian job, a phone call had brought the retired command sergeant major back on active duty to become the senior enlisted adviser of all international forces in Afghanistan.

In the Army, I was running for India and I was a soldier who could have died for India.

I want to be a soldier as my father was.

I always played a soldier, sailor, or policemen.

Being a soldier, fighting for this country, is neither Republican nor Democrat.

Not much over £1,000 a month for the private soldier on operations is hardly an impressive figure.

I remember when I was a private soldier. I remember the days when I was taken care of and when I was not taken care of.

I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war.

My first show, in England, was called 'Soldier, Soldier.'

Conscientious objection is an intrinsic part of being a soldier.

All Americans should take great pride in the men and women serving our nation in Iraq and in the courage, determination, resilience and initiative they demonstrate each and every day. It remains the greatest of honors to soldier with them.

I've never been a soldier. In Denmark, at 18, as a male, you go in a draw, and if they pick you, you go and serve for a year. I didn't.

Avoiding combat duty was and is an unforgivable sin for a professional soldier.

No greater privilege than I had as a soldier and then as a spymaster and to some degree now in the business world.

My dad was always the soldier I wanted to be.

Any soldier deployed overseas will think fondly of home. It is only right and fair that they are able to settle back into a home life once they leave their service.

As a singer and actor, I wanted to confidently enlist as an active-duty soldier, and do everything I could in my duty to defend the nation.

I thought of myself as a soldier who was going to law school.

I'm a combat soldier.

When you think about accountants, who would want to be an accountant? But, what would we do without accountants? Whether it's soldiers or garbage men or doctors, everyone has the thing that they love.

I know what soldiers or their families go through.