Soldiers Quotes

After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve.

~ Wilfred Owen

I have a novel that I can write. It's about three soldiers from Somalia. Some babies have been disappearing up on 144th Street, and I speculate later on what happened to them and how they might have been got back. These guys are dead, all three, and they have a chance in the afterlife to do something they should have done when they were alive.

~ Gil Scott-Heron

Guatemala's ornate presidential palace, once a terrifying fortress whose every corridor was patrolled by heavily armed soldiers in berets and camouflage uniforms, is now a normal public building where ordinary citizens enter without fear.

~ Stephen Kinzer

I am a general. My soldiers are the keys and I have to command them.

~ Vladimir Horowitz

Since Franklin Roosevelt's leadership in setting up the United Nations and the Nuremberg trials, the U.S. has promoted universal legal norms and the institutions to enforce them while seeking, by hook or by crook, to exempt American citizens, especially soldiers, from their actual application.

~ Michael Ignatieff

Stripped of its plot, the 'Iliad' is a scattering of names and biographies of ordinary soldiers: men who trip over their shields, lose their courage or miss their wives. In addition to these, there is a cast of anonymous people: the farmers, walkers, mothers, neighbours who inhabit its similes.

~ Alice Oswald

As soldiers need not only courage but tactics also, so does a philosopher need not only courage and philosophy but discernment also, to tell what his right time of dying is - so that he neither seek it nor flee it.

~ Apollonius Of Tyana

The soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged, but reported the misdeeds of the Indians.

~ Geronimo

If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.

~ Sun Tzu

An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

~ Thomas Paine

I want you to give all these chiefs of the soldiers here to understand that we are for peace, and that we have made peace, that we may not be mistaken by them for enemies.

~ Black Kettle

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

~ Charles Spurgeon

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

~ Napoléon Bonaparte

Firefighters are indispensable foot soldiers here at home.

~ Christopher Dodd

Guns go home with the soldiers, but landmines are designed to kill - mindlessly, out of control, for years.

~ Jody Williams

When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves.

~ William Westmoreland