Quotes About Soldiers

Don't you think the soldiers look like they came straight from high school yearbooks, too young to be over in Iraq, fighting for no reason?

Do not love those who pray and do not hate those who fight for the security of your country. Because without the soldiers, you can't even find a single day to pray in peace.

Religion must be maintained in moderation at all costs. Because it's not good when the state is at war or at peace. The physical training of soldiers, not salvation, is necessary at all times.

The soldiers fight the physical battle while the priests engage in the spiritual one. The former gives us the freedom to reside in the world and the latter seeks salvation or personal gain.

The "layouts," men who refused to volunteer or to appear for service once drafted, were rounded up by guards who were crudely called "dog catchers." Substitutes came from the poorest class of men, and were generally despised by other soldiers.

he was reportedly aided by squatters dressed up as "white savages," who may in fact have been the true catalyst behind Jackson's controversial action. The Florida conflict had all the signs of a squatters' war. Soldiers reported that Seminole warriors only attacked "cracker houses," leaving those of British or northern settlers untouched.

Ex-soldiers formed one of the largest subgroups of English vagrants. Sailors were the vagrants of the sea, and were often drawn into piracy.

Revolutions are ideal times for soldiers with a lot of wit — and the courage to act.

Soldiers usually win the battles and generals get the credit for them.

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

It is not that addresses at the opening of a battle make the soldiers brave. The old veterans scarcely hear them, and recruits forget them at the first boom of the cannon. Their usefulness lies in their effect on the course of the campaign, in neutralizing rumors and false reports, in maintaining a good spirit in the camp, and in furnishing matter for camp-fire talk. The printed order of the day should fulfill these different ends.

He thanked me for our kindness, and I replied that we, as soldiers, had more in common with each other than we did with many people in our own societies.

Americans, particularly after World War II, tended to romanticize war because in World War II our cause was the cause of humanity, and our soldiers brought home glory and victory, and thank God that they did. But it led us to romanticize it to some extent.

W]e would do better to treat terrorists as common criminals, people who have broken the laws recognized by all civil societies. To treat them as soldiers is to increase their power, respectability, and commitment.

There are no policemen in an anarchy, only soldiers.

French officer declared that this shot alone had killed or disabled nearly forty men.

We shook our heads, like two old soldiers drinking at the veterans' hall and despairing of the youth today.

Having lots of ideas doesn't mean you're clever, any more than having lots of soldiers means you're a good general.

The childhood of tens of thousands of Palestinian youngsters is being lived from one trauma to the next, from horror to horror. Their homes are demolished, their parents are humiliated in front of their eyes, soldiers storm into their homes brutally in the middle of the night, tanks open fire on their classrooms. And they don't have a psychological service. Have you ever heard of a Palestinian child who is a "victim of anxiety"?

La guerra duró tres años. La República cayó en la primavera de 1939, y con ella no solo cien mil soldados republicanos y cinco mil voluntarios extranjeros, sino los sueños y esperanzas de una gran parte de la humanidad.

Their notion of training was to march the men up and down in parades and reviews: these were nice to look at and gave them the impression of military discipline and precision, but as a preparation for a modern war they had no value whatsoever.

The prison at Nuremberg was a large building shaped like a five-pointed star. We were guarded by large numbers of black soldiers; our jailer, Colonel Andrus, thought to degrade us in this way. But I always got along well with the blacks, who proved to be much more humane than the whites.

Even if no equations could be found, the veneration of local deities was not deemed offensive to the Roman authorities. The evidence of inscriptions from British Romano-Celtic sites shows that Roman soldiers, who came from across the Empire, made dedications to local Celtic gods, and also to deities from Germanic cultures such as the war god Vheterus and the goddesses known as the Alaisagae.

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