Quotes About Soldiers

Il en fut de [la] guerre [de sécession] comme de toutes les guerres. Les civils se haïssent, les soldats se battent. Seuls les civils demeurent irréconciliables.

Last night they came again. The soldiers had set up a defense perimeter, but there were simply too many—they must have come by the hundreds of thousands, a huge swarm that blotted out the stars. Three soldiers killed, as well as Cole. He was standing right in front of me; they actually lifted him off his feet before they bored through him like hot knives through butter. There was barely enough of him left to bury.

Why are there never eighty soldiers around when you need them?

He took a couple of steps. "I clink," he said. "It's undignified." "Everybody clinks. It's what soldiers do.

Much comment has been given lately to the Code of the Samurai, --the Art of Death which makes our soldiers exult in self- sacrifice; but scarcely any attention has been drawn to Teaism, which represents so much of our Art of Life.

A great deal of the work I do involves the military.

I try to get over to Iraq and Afghanistan as much as I can.

I always say one of the great scenes from 'The Dirty Dozen' is where Jim Brown has to get grenades in the chimney.

We come, not to mourn our dead soldiers, but to praise them.

Fighting in the Revolutionary War, well, is terrifying. But I'm terrifyingly terrified the that terrified Regulars won't be terrified no longer.

Altogether it is reckoned that around 1.9 million German women were raped by Soviet soldiers in the final months of the war and those immediately following the peace.12

By push of bayonets, no firing till you see the whites of their eyes.

Everyone gets scared, Princess. Even brave men sometimes run the first time they see battle. In armies, that's why there's so much training. The ones who hold aren't the courageous ones, they're the well-trained ones. We have instincts like any other animal.

Here, in Alethkar, men often spoke of the legends -- of mankind's hard-won victory over the Voidbringers. But when weapons created to fight nightmares were turned against common soldiers, the lives of men became cheap things indeed.

If you can read the book and say, 'Space Marines, YEEEAAAHHH!' That's Military Science Fiction." (Brigham Young writing lecture, March 2012)

It was gratifying to see how much one could accomplish in both politics and trade by liberally murdering the other fellow's soldiers.

only seen a glimpse of it in the bright light: an outfit of Nalhallan design, with big epaulettes* on the shoulders and all kinds of ropes and ribbons and buttons and things, intended to make officers stand out on a battlefield and get shot first so the soldiers doing the real fighting are safe.

when weapons created to fight nightmares were turned against common soldiers, the lives of men became cheap things indeed.

For soldiers serving in Afghanistan and Iraq, coming home is more lethal than being in combat. From the invasion of Afghanistan to the summer of 2009, the US military lost 761 soldiers in combat in that country. Compare that to the 817 who took their own lives over the same period, and this number does account for deaths related to violence, high-risk behaviors, and addiction.

Without your wound where would your power be? It is your very remorse that makes your low voice tremble into the hearts of men. The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one human being broken on the wheels of living. In Love's service only the wounded soldiers can serve. Draw back.

In Love's service, only wounded soldiers can serve.

A common and natural result of an undue respect of law is, that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel, captain, corporal, privates, powder-monkeys, and all, marching in admirable order over hill and dale to the wars, against their wills, ay, against their common sense and consciences, which makes it very steep marching indeed, and produces a palpitation of the heart.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

The soldiers at the DMZ are all very young, and I feel guilty about that.