Quotes About Soldier

[George Everett Macdonald was] a valiant soldier for human liberty.

He [Christ] even restored the severed ear of the soldier who came to arrest Him - a fact that allows us to hope the resurrection will reflect a considerable attention to detail.

Any soldier returning home must rediscover his humanity and establish a livable peace with the discovered, liberated, permanently dark places in his own heart -- the darkness that is always with us.

I do think we need for a troop to be able to house his family. That's an important part of building morale in the military.

Of course, you didn't want our help. Now I have to go beat up some soldier just to keep my ego intact.

The soldier who fights to death never dies, but the soldier who fights for existence never truly exists.

But to tar the sacrifices of the Confederate soldier as simple acts of racism, and reduce the battle flag under which he fought to nothing more than the symbol of a racist heritage, is one of the great blasphemies of our modern age.

A German infantryman wrote in his diary, 'Courage has nothing to do with it. The fear of death surpasses all other feelings and terrible compulsion alone drives the soldier forward.'22

The poppy flower: A flower of eternal sleep, a narcotic to the wounded soul, a remembrance of the fallen soldier. —DB

he is like a soldier or a saint: blank-faced, and given wholly to an obedience he does not need to understand.

A soldier's body is a work of art that contains his country's history.

Your soldier's Banner is then displayed in several places when playing Fortnite: Battle Royale, including near the top-left corner of the Lobby, and on the Profile screen (which you can access by selecting the Career tab found at the top of the Lobby screen).

The soldier doesn't usually act on his own initiative, he doesn't harbour feelings of hatred or resentment or jealousy, he isn't motivated by long-held desires or personal ambition; the only motivating force is a vague, rhetorical, empty patriotism, for those soldiers, that is, who are moved by such feelings or allow themselves to be convinced.

E algumas noites vi a brasa do cigarro dele na escuridão, como se fosse a de um soldado nas trincheiras, tão exausto e enojado que já não se importa de denunciar a sua posição e morrer de um disparo certeiro guiado pelo seu lume persistente.

truth is, I just shrug and soldier on. As kind as I am, as well-meaning and helpful as I try to be, I have no feelings finally, for good or ill. In the depths of my being, no matter what happens, I am left cold, impenetrable to remorse, to grief, to happiness, though I can pretend well enough even to the point of fooling myself. I am trying to say I am finally, terribly, unfeeling. My soul resides in a still, deep, beautiful, emotionless, calm cold pond of silence.

Diplomacy, Roosevelt insisted, is utterly useless when there is no force behind it; the diplomat is the servant, not the master of the soldier.

It was an inflexible maxim of Roman discipline that good soldier should dread his own officers far more than the enemy

and it was an inflexible maxim of Roman discipline, that a good soldier should dread his officers far more than the enemy. 

Regular pay, occasional donatives, and a stated recompense, after the appointed time of service, alleviated the hardships of the military life, whilst, on the other hand, it was impossible for cowardice or disobedience to escape the severest punishment. The centurions were authorized to chastise with blows, the generals had a right to punish with death; and it was an inflexible maxim of Roman discipline, that a good soldier should dread his officers far more than the enemy.

The untimely death of John compelled him to accept an advantageous treaty; but he still continued, the subject and the soldier of Valentinian, to entertain a secret, perhaps a treasonable, correspondence with his Barbarian allies, whose retreat had been purchased by liberal gifts, and more liberal promises.

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it was an inflexible maxim of Roman discipline, that a good soldier should dread his officers far more than the enemy.

In the United States, influenza death rates were so high that the average life span fell by twelve years, from fifty-one in 1917 to thirty-nine in 1918. If you were a "doughboy"—slang for an American soldier—you had a better chance of dying in bed from flu or flu-related complications than from enemy action.

I don't understand," she admitted at last. "You were trying to kill each other fifteen years ago, and you're friends now. Don't you even argue about the North and the South and who was right?" "Johnny Reb" laughed. "What's it to a soldier the right and the wrong of it all? He's there for the fighting, that's what he likes. Doesn't matter who you're fighting, long as he gives you a good fight.