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Quotes About Soldiers

You know, we've got to be responsible about our debt. We don't want the United States to ever be a dead beat, and not be able to pay its bills, either to our soldiers who are fighting or to Social Security recipients.
~ Claire McCaskill
I perform for soldiers because they are important.
~ Coolio
Soldiers of Israel, we have no aims of conquest. Our purpose is to bring to naught the attempts of the Arab armies to conquer our land.
~ Moshe Dayan
In Iraq and Afghanistan, our soldiers signed up intentionally. That's a huge difference from the largely conscripted army of my era.
~ Tim O'Brien
She performed for the Dutch Resistance, not just to raise money but also to entertain people and to take their minds off the horrors they were living through. They would do plays and little musicals, trying to be discreet and not bring the attention of the soldiers.
~ Sean Hepburn Ferrer
Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
~ Karl Kraus
There were almost 11,000 American soldiers killed in Germany in April of 1945, the last full month of the war. That's almost as many as died in June, 1944. Right to the very end, it was absolutely brutal.
~ Rick Atkinson
My church has an historical emphasis on peace, but we can't enjoy peace without honoring the blood our soldiers shed for it.
~ James A. Forbes
But the admiration for Jackson was by no means confined to his own soldiers and to his own section.
~ Daniel H. Hill
Blair... is accusing us of executing British soldiers. We want to tell him that we have not executed anybody. They are either killed in battle, most of them get killed because they are cowards anyway, the rest they just get captured.
~ Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
They may not be conscripted against their will as the foot soldiers in a federal crusade.
~ John Paul Stevens
Writing 'Native Guard,' I didn't know I was working on a single book. I began writing that book because I was interested in the lesser-known history of these black soldiers stationed off the coast of my hometown.
~ Natasha Trethewey
At a time when 2500 American soldiers have given their lives for the cause of bringing democracy to Iraq, it is sad and frustrating to watch the Republican establishment disgrace the exercise of democracy in our own House of Representatives.
~ Earl Blumenauer
In 'LoC,' I was returning to a war film after 'Border,' and I had to put myself into the hearts and minds of our soldiers.
~ Anu Malik
There cannot be any better cross-section of America and I think the soldiers represent the best we have. Today's soldiers are brighter and smarter, perhaps in a different way, than past generations because they've been brought up in the computer and information age.
~ Gerald Griffin
My dad and grandpa were in the army and as a country singer you're constantly playing at military bases all across the country and meeting soldiers and their families and hearing their stories.
~ Dierks Bentley
Back in Sapangbato in Angeles City, my mom signed me up on this foundation called Pearl S. Buck where they support Fil-Am kids left during the time when U.S. soldiers where at the Clark Air Base.
~ apl.de.ap
Bin Laden, who was in his country, attacked and damaged our Pentagon, and killed our soldiers right out here at the Pentagon. But his pentagon no longer exists. It is rubble.
~ Jeff Sessions
I think that some of our soldiers die in the battlefield and some come home to bad health and die prematurely, just by the nature of the kind of business they're in.
~ Christopher Shays
It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers.
~ Hanoi Hannah
If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say?
~ Chuck Schumer
The gigantic Gaul derided the Roman soldiers as a band of pigmies.
~ John Lothrop Motley
So the whole of war, when you look at it is probably run by professional soldiers, and the rest of them are just recruits, or people who are just forced to join the army.
~ Gerald Scarfe
The war was declared over - the end of major combat operations - in May 2003. Release procedures got under way immediately; reducing the population from 8,000 to just over 300, of course, requires fewer military police soldiers.
~ Janis Karpinski