Quotes About Service

If you can't afford to take care of your # veterans , then don't go to war.

There was a military police brigade with over 3,400 soldiers getting ready to go home because their mission - prisoner-of-war operations - was finished.

I had seen the films out of World War II, the great 82nd Airborne, the 101st, and all of those of you in the greatest generation and the service that you had provided.

Nobody dislikes war more than warriors.

As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.

The British soldiers are fellows who have all enlisted for drink. That is the plain fact - they have all enlisted for drink.

A "just war" - if there could be such a thing - would not require conscription. Volunteers would be plentiful.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

When one treats people with benevolence, justice and righteousness, and reposes confidence in them, the army will be united in mind and all will be happy to serve their leaders.

Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?

We weed out the darnel from the corn and the unfit in war, but do not excuse evil men from the service of the state.

My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.

I am more anxious than I can express that my men should be not only good soldiers of their country, but also good soldiers of the cross.

I do not feel guilty of any war crimes, I have only done my duty as an intelligence organ, and I refuse to serve as an ersatz for Himmler.

I'm ready to stop waging war and start washing feet.

If I do my full duty, the rest will take care of itself.

The war affects me less than it ought. But I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making dole over the slaughter.

One dictum I had learned on the battlefields of France in a far distant war: You cannot save the world, but you might save the man in front of you, if you work fast enough.

This army stays here until the last wounded man is removed. Before I leave them to the enemy, I will lose many more men.

My mother went to Radcliffe, and rather than just trying to get rich, she wanted to be a teacher and taught for over 30 years in the public schools. She's definitely got some war stories.

I am asking of no man more than I myself was ready throughout four years to do

Live for something rather than die for nothing.

Care for him who shall have borne the battle

The army consists of the first infantry division and eight million replacements.