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Quotes About Soldier

I like war.
~ Chris Kyle
I would say that the war correspondent gets more drinks, more girls, better pay, and greater freedom than the soldier, but at this stage of the game, having the freedom to choose his spot and being allowed to be a coward and not be executed for it is his torture.
~ Robert Capa
Necessity is laid upon us. We must fight. There are no promises in the Lord Jesus Christ's epistles to the seven churches, except to those who 'overcome.' Where there is grace, there will be conflict. The believer is a soldier. There is no holiness without a warfare. Saved souls will always be found to have fought a fight.
~ J. C. Ryle
My father was a soldier, which meant that he was a warrior, which meant that he was important. My mother rode a horse and sang in the Governor-General's band, so that made her important as well.
~ Spike Milligan
A warrior is free to be a hero and pull off daring do and the soldier is irresponsible if he does it.
~ C. J. Cherryh
There's a lot to learn from the family of a soldier as much as the soldier. Actually, 'warrior' is a better word.
~ Ben Foster
It's an amazing thing to hear they're finally giving out a Medal of Honor to a soldier from the wars of Iraq and Afghanistan.
~ Tim Hetherington
Never trust a soldier who's eager to go to war.
~ Ramez Naam
The Moravians were more lenient. Although one of their principles was "not to fight with carnal weapons but with prayer," they still allowed that "a soldier could become and remain a member.
~ Ray Raphael
Got any good ideas, soldier?" "Lots of them. Somebody gunned Geiger. Somebody got gunned by Geiger, who ran away. Or it was two other fellows. Or Geiger was running a cult and made blood sacrifices in front of that totem pole. Or he had chicken for dinner and liked to kill his chickens in the front parlor.
~ Raymond Chandler
People despised conscientious objectors, even those of the enemy country, because patriotism was held to be an absolute virtue. It is hard to get much more absolute than the 'My country right or wrong' of the professional soldier, for the slogan commits you to kill whomever the politicians of some future date might choose to call enemies.
~ Richard Dawkins
What sort of soldier are you? she asked. Not much of one. Using his book, he tapped the triangular brown patch with its inset green circle sewn on his tunic shoulder. 2/7th Casualty Clearing Station. I'm a doctor. He
~ Richard Flanagan
All that she was, and all that she would be in the future, was because a clone soldier had put such undeserved faith in her that she had become that Jedi he imagined she was.
~ Karen Traviss
The dignity of man is vindicated as much by the thinker and poet as by the statesman and soldier.
~ James Bryant Conant
As there is no pleasure in military life for a soldier who fears death, so there is no independence in civil existence for the man who has an overpowering dread of solitude.
~ Philip Gilbert Hamerton
The last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me.
~ William Westmoreland
The one weapon every man, soldier, sailor, or airman should be able to use effectively is the rifle.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Not very good with death? Father was a military man, and military men lived with death; lived for death; lived on death. To a professional soldier, oddly enough, death was life.
~ Alan Bradley
And then, for an old man like me, it's not exactly right,This kind o' playing soldier with no enemy in sight.
~ Bret Harte
They put a rifle in my hand, sent me off to a foreign land to go and kill the Yellow man.
~ Bruce Springsteen
Fighting for men back then, I think, was just more a way of life, especially if you were a soldier obviously.
~ Channing Tatum
Every morning is good news, every child that is born is good news, every just man is good news, every singer is good news, because every singer is one less soldier.
~ Facundo Cabral
Every morning is a battle between the superego and the id, and I am a mere foot soldier with mud and a snooze button on her shield.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Don't be ashamed to need help. Like a soldier storming a wall, you have a mission to accomplish. And if you've been wounded and you need a comrade to pull you up? So what?
~ Marcus Aurelius