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To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Only happy people have nightmares, from overeating. For those who live a nightmare reality, sleep is a black hole, lost in time, like death. — Guy Sajer

No soldier wins a war by himself. But Dr Lange's contribution was bigger than most. — Anonymous

Attacks on cities are strategically justified in so far as they tend to shorten the war and so preserve the lives of allied soldiers. — Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

We were soldiers, but even before we were showed how to kill our enemies, they taught us how to kill ourselves. — Ruth Ozeki

Some mules just seem to be born with the hee-haw habit. Back home we call those fellows 'Missouri Nightingales'. — Maureen Daly

Ben Battle was a soldier bold, and used to war's alarms, But a cannon-ball took off his legs, so he laid down his arms. — Thomas Hood

Revolutions are good times for soldiers of talent and courage. — Napoleon Bonaparte

The sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers; for gold alone will not procure good soldiers, but good soldiers will always procure gold. — Niccolo Machiavelli

He was a real-life soldier playing soldier from his memories of made up soldiers. — Alex London

As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not. — Lester B. Pearson

I was a soldier. It is like a dream. When even the bones is gone in the desert the dreams is talk to you, you don't wake up forever. — Cormac McCarthy

No great dependence is to be placed on the eagerness of young soldiers for action ... fighting is agreeable to those who are strangers to it. — Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

They say a good soldier fights a battle, never a war. That's for civilians. — John Steinbeck

For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it. — Smedley Butler

Men are poor soldiers in love's war. And it is a war-one that never ends. — Andrea Cremer

Nonviolence requires more courage than the soldier of war. — Mahatma Gandhi

When this war is over, the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell! — William Halsey

Maybe it's time to stop being a soldier and go home to be a father. And a husband for Deanna. I'm not sure how. — David Bellavia

No soldier ever really survives a war. — Audie Murphy

So I would say God hates war, but God loves every soldier. — Rick Warren

My heart is full and my weapon is clean. — Jason Christopher Hartley

And be very careful at the front, Paul."
Ah, Mother, Mother! Why do I not take you in my arms and die with you. What poor wretches we are! — Erich Maria Remarque

I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war. — Geraldine Brooks

Alabama soldiers, all I ask of you is to keep up with the Texans! — Robert E.Lee

Don't let anyone but a soldier tell you how to fight a war. — Nick Cole

What can a soldier do when mercy is treason, and he is alone in it? — Laini Taylor

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. — Douglas MacArthur

The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men. — Alfred De Vigny

The soldiers currently manning our sophisticated weaponry have room temperature IQ's. — G. Gordon Liddy

Honestly, a lot of liberals are foot soldiers in the war on Christmas. — Tucker Carlson

Could it have nothing to do with the soldier and everything to do with the type of war now being fought? — David Finkel

When World War II started on September 1, 1939, the German army contained 3.74 million soldiers and 103 divisions. — John Mearsheimer

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman. — George Santayana

There are far more statues of soldiers out there than there are of civilians. — George Armstrong Custer

Every means should be taken to attach the soldier to his colours. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Soldiers of the Reich! This day, you are to take part in an offensive of such importance that the whole future of the war may depend on its outcome. — Adolf Hitler

Then there was the war, and I married it because there was nothing else when I reached the age of falling in love. — Guy Sajer

You have to be willing to sacrifice as much to prevent war, as soldiers are willing to sacrifice to wage war. — Jodie Evans

The world he had left was not ready for his return, or rather, he was not ready to return to the world he had left. — Matthew J. Hefti

It is as a soldier that you make love and as a lover that you make war. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Every solider believes in war till the time he actually fights it. — Pushpa Rana

When a German soldier is running at you, there's no point quoting Virgil at him, you're better off kicking a football in his face. — Cesca Major

Never trust a soldier who's eager to go to war. — Ramez Naam

I'm a foot soldier in the war on Christmas. And the war on puppies and sunshine. — Tucker Carlson

I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat. — Mel Brooks

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. a — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Worry only about what you control. The rest is war. — Matthew J. Hefti

Amnesia was a soldier's best friend, and luckily, it could be taught. Missing limbs still ache, but missing memories never do. — Alex London

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war — Otto Von Bismarck

8. The skillful soldier does not raise a second levy, neither are his supply-wagons loaded more than twice. [Once war is declared, he will — Sun Tzu

The soldier is the army. — George S. Patton

In the aftermath, we are because they were. — RJ Heller

Soldier or sailor, the fighting man is but a fiend; and the staff and body-guard of the Devil musters many a baton. — Herman Melville

In time of revolution, with perseverance and courage, a soldier should think nothing impossible. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Armies are a purely human invention. Most soldiers who go to war nowadays don't even do it because they're inherently aggressive. — Frans De Waal

To create peace, be a soldier of peace with a pen not a soldier of war with a gun. — Debasish Mridha

As wars come and go, my soldier stays eternal — Tupac Shakur

But, hey, remember: If things don't work out in your life, you can always just turn to drugs or join the Army. — Jason Christopher Hartley

The problems I had existed before I did, and I discovered them. — Guy Sajer

You must be a light unto yourself. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

I've had people tell me to get over it. I politely tell them, 'How about if I chop off your finger and see if it grows back? — Jim Sheeler

It is not set speeches at the moment of battle that render soldiers brave. — Napoleon Bonaparte

... If one who slays one is a murderer then he who slays a thousand is not a hero,' said Lalu.
- Pg. #112, Across the Black Waters. — Mullk Raj Anand

We have yielded no more than a few hundred yards of it as a prize to the enemy. But on every yard there lies a dead man. — Erich Maria Remarque

War makes extremely heavy demands on the soldier's strength and nerves. For this reason, make heavy demands on your men in peacetime exercises. — Erwin Rommel

War comes and goes but a soldier stays eternal — Tupac Shakur

We will form an army of poor, where every poor will be a soldier and we will win the war against poverty on behalf of their strength. — Narendra Modi

Like most Rebel soldiers, Sam Watkins owned no slaves. — Bruce Catton

Afghanistan changed him, but Iraq sculpted him. — Melissa Seligman

Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy. — Henry Kissinger

War always reaches the depths of horror because of idiots who perpetuate terror from generation to generation under the pretext of vengeance. — Guy Sajer

War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of. — Sebastian Junger

Fifteen millions of soldiers with popguns and horses All bent upon killing, because their "of courses" Are not quite the same. — Amy Lowell

An Emperor confides in national soldiers, not in mercenaries. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Maybe the ultimate wound is the one that makes you miss the war you got it in. — Sebastian Junger

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace. — Ulysses S. Grant

No man is a man until he has been a soldier. — Louis De Bernieres

The hardest thing of all for a soldier is to retreat. — Duke Of Wellington

When the soldiers stand leaning on their spears, they are faint from want of food. — Sun Tzu

You can't equate the game we play to a war. Kellen Winslow said he's a soldier. No, he's not. This is not a war ... not a good comparison. — Ken Rosenthal

It is impossible to give a soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him. — Henry David Thoreau

According to Robert, his friend Moses was a soldier in the first war, as he described it. He fought Indians and soldiers in red coats. — Nancy B. Brewer

Though all the guns be silenced,
each soldier in his home,
There is no peace till Love comes,
till the meek may safely roam. — C. P. Klapper

Soldier don't act like we is crime and them is order, soldier act like we is enemy and this is war. — Marlon James

There's only one way for a professional soldier to die. That's from the last bullet of the last battle of the last war. — George S. Patton

The soldier stared at Ingrid. His silence was elastic, slowly curling a rope around her neck. — Ruta Sepetys

All generals, officers, and soldiers who capitulate in battle to save their own lives should be decimated. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you — Walt Whitman

War is killing the individual in it unless he has learned livingness - if he had it he wouldn't be a good soldier. — Georgia O'Keeffe

No time to spare: the expression assumed its full significance, as so many expressions do in wartime. — Guy Sajer

War has become an affair of machines ... and soldiers are little more than clever mechanics. — Alberto Moravia

Hence the experienced soldier, once in motion, is never bewildered; once he has broken camp, he is never at a loss. — Sun Tzu

But for a soldier his duty is plain. He is to obey the orders of all those placed over him and whip the enemy wherever he meets him. — Ulysses S. Grant

Relax now. That's the beauty of war. Utter subservience to one's leaders absolves a soldier of the consequences of her actions. — Alan Campbell

Kill every enemy twice, Wilky said. Better than gettin' shot by a soldier pretending to be dead. — Joseph Bruchac

I give it to you now because, child of soldier, child of man, child of angel, it is not necessary to win the battle, if in the end, you win the war. — Jessica Shirvington

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers. — Norman Schwarzkopf

When you come back - and you will come back - I'm gonna fuck you, soldier, like you just came home from war. — Robert Swartwood

Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war. — Allan Massie