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I love soldiers. They are my kids, they are my children.
Soldiers are members of a profession of arms which has existed virtually unchanged for thousands of years- far longer than most other human institutions have existed. The Army has done so because of its unique character- a uniqueness based primarily upon intangibles that cannot be costed.
There's nothing like being a soldier for confidence or learning your limits or enduring utter humiliation.
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country is the noblest development of mankind.
Ambition, the soldier's virtue.
A warrior with a cause is the most dangerous soldier of all
You want to make me the best soldier possible. Go down and look at the standings. Look at the all-time standings. So far you're doing an excellent job with me. Congratulations. Now when are you going to put me up against a good army?
No man is a man until he has been a soldier.
War comes and goes but a soldier stays eternal
I want to be a soldier as my father was.
No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.
The untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his countrymen and the honor and safety of his country.
The first quality of a soldier is constancy in enduring fatigue and hardship. Courage is only the second. Poverty privation and want are the school of the good soldier.
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.
The worse the man, the better the soldier.
If you're just a soldier...what am I?"
"Just a king.
Soldiering is a very important profession, is it not?
Your traveling companion, the soldier, is well trained. The two of you were planning something, weren't you?"
"Planning what? An evil scheme to steal all the Big Macs left in the McDonalds along 1-99?
Soldiers in arms! Defenders of our soil!
Who from destruction save us; who from spoil
Protect the sons of peace, who traffic or who toil;
Would I could duly praise you, that each deed
Your foe's might honor, and your friends might read.
When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a labourer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do.
A good soldier never leaves a man behind.
When you know the truth, the truth makes you a soldier.
I served my country in uniform for 26 years.
Soldiers are dreamers.
What your soldier wants - really, really wants - is no-one shooting back at him.
Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er, Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, Dream of battled fields no more. Days of danger, nights of waking.
In the soldier we see the love of country. When you are willing to go onto a battlefield and give your life to defend an ideal ... knowing that you may not live through day.
This soldiering thing sadly deadens that very good thing, humanity.
No soldier can fight unless he is properly fed on beef and beer.
Peaceful Warrior
The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian.
What were you tring to do, soldier?
I was trying to eat, sir!
And what happened?
I got caught thinking about some crap, sir!
What kind of crap?
How I want to live less than my parent's dog.
war correspondent
I am one of the million or more male residents of the United Kingdom, who a year ago had no special yearning towards military life, but who joined the army after war was declared.
We are soldiers who devote ourselves to arms not for the invasion of other countries, but for the defense of our own, not for the gratification of our private interests but for public security
Get some sleep, soldier boy.
I don't have a weapon in my hand, and I don't have a uniform on my body, but my uniform now is my scars and weapon is my words, so I'm still serving.
Let it be your pride to show all men everywhere not only what good soldiers you are, but also what good men you are.
I think of myself as Special Forces, clearing the path for the infantry.
I'm just a living witness that you can be an imperfect soldier and still be in the army fighting for God Almighty. Don't you think you got to be perfect 'cause I ain't.
For it has been said, all that a man hath will he give for his life; and while all contribute of their substance the soldier puts his life at stake, and often yields it up in his country's cause. The highest merit, then is due to the soldier.
I don't think I could be a foot soldier. I don't know if I could take orders too good. I'm a little lazy.
The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession.
Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier;
I have seen worse sights than this.
I owe everything to the army.
To be a soldier one needs that special gene, that extra something, that enables a person to jump into one on one combat, something, after all, that is unimaginable to most of us, as we are simply not brave enough.
A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy's guts, he comes.
Brave soldier, never fear. Even though your death is near.
Every day, hundreds of thousands of men and women protect and serve, often putting their own lives at risk.
Ask a soldier what he believes in. He'll tell you God. Country. The patient hands of death
the ones he's wearing.
I was born in a family with a strong military background, so I chose to be a soldier.
The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
All of us are already civilian soldiers, without knowing it ... The great stroke of luck for the military class's terrorism is that no one recognizes it. People don't recognize the militarized part of their identity, of their consciousness.
To the everlasting glory of the Infantry -
I'm trained in weapons, demolition, and unarmed combat. I'm a sniper, and I'm the platoon medic. But most of all, I'm an American.
The sergeant major
I'm a soldier who didn't know how nasty the battle was going to be, and now, I've got a purple heart and I'm back.
I remember when I was a private soldier. I remember the days when I was taken care of and when I was not taken care of.
Back of every soldier is a woman.
I don't think I'd ever get typecast as a soldier.
I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.
No one hates war like a soldier hates war.
'Tis the soldier's life to have their balmy slumbers waked with strife.
You may be sensitive inside, but what I see on the outside is a soldier.
I am convinced that in times such as these, every man must be a soldier, in substance as well as in name.
Being a soldier [in the wars of modern power politics] was like being on a team in a sport that drew no crowds, except for the players' own parents and friends.
The soldier's heart, the soldier's spirit, the soldier's soul, are everything. Unless the soldier's soul sustains him he cannot be relied on and will fail himself and his commander and his country in the end.
Over this August district work period, like many of my colleagues, I spent a lot of time with the men and women in uniform from my home State. The 196th Field Artillery Brigade just got back from a year in Afghanistan.
He was a soldier. He was a fucking veteran when it came to pillaging pussies.
We (soldiers) are like cloaks,-one thinks of us only when it rains.
Armed Soldier, terrible as Death, relentless as Doom; doing God's judgement on the Enemies of God. It is a phenomenon not of joyful nature; no, but of awful, to be looked at with pious terror and awe.
All I am and all I have is at the service of my country.
All of the real heroes are not storybook combat fighters either. Every single man in this Army plays a vital role. Don t ever let up. Don t ever think that your job is unimportant. Every man has a job to do and he must do it. Every man is a vital link in the great chain.
They always say about the soldier that he's detached. That's true, for he's been in the eye of the storm, his heart has been broken, and he doesn't even know it.
The only absolutely and unapproachably heroic element in the soldier's work seems to be-that he is paid little for it-and regularly.
Every soldier in the course of time exists only in the breath of written word.
The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth.
I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
I perform for soldiers because they are important.
My soldier weapon is the weapon of truth.
Every soldier is an enemy.
A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
I was raised to believe that soldiers were strong and wise and brave and faithful; they didn't lie, cheat, steal or abandon their comrades.
I live a soldier's life when I'm working. That's how it feels to me, except I've got a slightly greater chance of survival.
Remember, officers and soldiers, that you are fighting for the blessings of liberty.
This conflict is one thing I've been waiting for. I'm well and strong and young - young enough to go to the front. If I can't be a soldier, I'll help soldiers.
My very identity as a soldier came to an abrupt end. I'd been soldiering as long as I'd been shaving. Suddenly I'd been told I could no longer soldier, and it felt as though no one really cared if I ever shaved again.
War has become an affair of machines ... and soldiers are little more than clever mechanics.
The soldier 's courage and sacrifice is full of glory , expressing devotion to country , to cause, to comrades in arms. But war itself is never glorious , and we must never trumpet it as such.
Hell, was no military man; was computer technician who had bumbled into wrong field.
Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.
A true woman always loves a real soldier.
On becoming soldiers we have not ceased to be citizens.
if it comes to a choice between being a good soldier and a good human being -- try to be a good human being".
Hate war, but love the American Warrior.
I wanted to be a soldier. Someone who would earn standing in Winter. Someone Sir would look at with pride. Someone Mather would look at and -
The true soldier knows nothing but war, and the true soldier, for lack of an enemy, attacks himself.
Wars come and Go but soldiers stay in turn.
Drinking is the soldier's pleasure.