Quotes
Quotes about Soldiers
I am closing my 52 years of military service. When I joined the army, even before the turn of the century, it was the fulfillment of all my boyish hopes and dreams. The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point, and the hopes and dreams have long since vanished, but I still remember the refrain of one of the most barracks ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they just fade away. And like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.
By the apostle Paul, shadows to-night Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers Armed in proof and led by shallow Richmond.
For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal; miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely seen.
Why should the brave Spanish soldiers brag? The sunne never sets in the Spanish dominions, but ever shineth on one part or other we have conquered for our king.
War is cruel and you cannot refine it. â¢William T. Sherman War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.
Soldiers usually win the battles and generals get the credit for them.
Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are in finishing it.
Will without power is like children playing at soldiers. - quoted by Thomas Babington Macaulay, The Rovers (act IV),
