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

The captured soldiers should be kindly treated and kept. — Sun Tzu

I don't think any war is worth having our soldiers killed. — Jessica Lynch

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

To hear them laugh was to hear that everything was all right, but to see them laugh was to see otherwise — David Finkel

Treating war as farce is one way soldiers deal with it. — Phil Klay

The soldiers lie in the grey morning. Thickets separate them. They are on manoeuvres. They are at war with their hands, their eyes, their foreheads. — Herta Muller

When they remain in garrison, soldiers are maintained with fear and punishment; when they are then led to war, with hope and reward. — Niccolo Machiavelli

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

She hated war and liked soldiers - it was one of her amiable inconsistencies. — E. M. Forster

The war imbued my tin soldiers with quite a new interest. It was impossible to have boxes enough of them. — Georg Brandes

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

I will always hate war, but will be forever proud of mine. — David Bellavia

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

It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers. — Hanoi Hannah

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

Casey's flesh and blood sends the war machine's children to exclusive private schools. — Cindy Sheehan

Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head. — Euripides

I think soldiers are not just one homogenous group, just like Americans aren't. They all have different feelings about the war. — Emily Robison

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

Wars damage the civilian society as much as they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it. — Paul Fussell

Men who have been in war have a different attitude about being wronged. — Dan Groat

Soldiers of capitalism are the fathers of dissent. — Kevin Mcpherson Eckhoff

Old soldiers never die - they're just thrown on the scrap heap! — Pat Mills

Cigarettes are called coffin nails for a reason, Billy Boy," I remembered telling him. "Be careful with those things. You're risking your life. — Cat Winters

In times of war or peace the US will gladly pay a man to fail should his heart be in it, a small shimmering proof of the American dream. — Jonathan Culver

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

Buffalo Soldiers in Italy: Black Americans in World War II — Charles M. Blow

Ever wonder why the media never refers to 18 or 19 year old American soldiers as "armed teens"? — Stefan Molyneux

If you have to fight old enemies, you should do it with your own old soldiers. — Marius C.

We are the ones responsible to determine whether the war that our marines, soldiers and airmen are fighting in is worth the cause ... — Scott Ritter

They can march for days without eating. They impregnate every schoolgirl they meet. — Anthony Doerr

A man dreams of a miracle and wakes up to loaves of bread. — Erich Maria Remarque

Soldiers! Here is the battle you have so long desired! Henceforth victory depends on you; we have need of it. — Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Business is war and your past clients and customer's great online reviews are your elite soldiers in battle. — Tom Kenemore

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers. — William Tecumseh Sherman

Humankind is but the pieces in a game, plastic soldiers waging war between boy gods. — David Brian

Soldiers don't make war. Soldiers fight war. Politicians make war. — Lawrence Withrow

We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial - I believe we are lost. — Erich Maria Remarque

The gallantry and aggressive fighting spirit of the Russian soldiers command the American army's admiration. — George C. Marshall

There's nothing I can do to erase the shadow of misery and despair from the eyes looking back at me from the photos [that I took in Afghanistan]. — Vladislav Tamarov

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one. — H.L. Mencken

Long live all us crazy soldiers
Who were born under calico skies
May we never be called to handle
All the weapons of war we despise — Paul McCartney

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

Compelled to become instruments of war, to kill and be killed, child soldiers are forced to give violent expression to the hatreds of adults — Olara Otunnu

They fought the enemy, we fight fat living and self-pity. Shine, o shine, unfalsifying sun, on this sick scene. — Marianne Moore

I am more anxious than I can express that my men should be not only good soldiers of their country, but also good soldiers of the cross. — Stonewall Jackson

You are always sending us to our deaths. We're soldiers, it is what we do. — B.E.L. Forsythe

Go, bid the soldiers shoot. — William Shakespeare

For they were unseasoned, nor inured, not knowing this to be much less than the beginning of sorrow. — David Jones

If slaves will make good soldiers, then our whole theory of slavery is wrong. — Howell Cobb

Weapons that were designed for soldiers in war theaters don't belong on our streets. — Barack Obama

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

Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems? — Bill Watterson

War's a racket. No doubt. But war is a racket for the politicians, not the soldiers. — Sean Beaudoin

The northern soldiers are just men," Hal told the men in his command. "And women," he amended. "When you cut them, they bleed, just like us. — Cinda Williams Chima

....in Bosnia, mass rape was a policy of the war, systematically carried out, implicating neighbors, paramilitaries, soldiers. — Ausma Zehanat Khan

When the common soldiers are too strong and their officers too weak, the result is INSUBORDINATION. — Sun Tzu

War's never a picnic. Although obviously soldiers do end up eating outdoors quite a lot. — David Mitchell

No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war. — Phyllis Schlafly

ISIS was not particular about how their soldiers made it to Jannah, so long as they inflicted maximum damage.. — Kenneth Eade

The army consists of the first infantry division and eight million replacements. — Sebastian Junger

When defending itself against another country, a nation never lacks men, but too often, soldiers. — Napoleon Bonaparte

We developed a firm, practical feeling of solidarity, which grew, on the battlefield, into the best thing that the war produced - comradeship in arms. — Erich Maria Remarque

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

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

You can only die once, to make sure it's worth it. — Vladimir Kamarisky

You tell soldiers what they need to hear to go to war. Bitches need a mission, not a goal. — Christopher Moore

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

A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one. — William Makepeace Thackeray

It is soldiers who pay most of the human cost. In war it is extraordinary how it all comes down to the character of one man. — Creighton W. Abrams Jr.

The wind bit hard at Valley Forge one Christmas.
Soldiers tied rags on their feet.
Red footprints wrote on the snow ... — Carl Sandburg

All bombing is terrorism. — Suzy Kassem

Some people are blinded by their experience. Soldiers know how important war is. Owners of slaves learn every day how inferior subject peoples are. — William Stafford

This is a profligate prison for us all, it's a hellish hole we soldiers have been hauled to because they blame us for losing the war in America. — Timberlake Wertenbaker

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

Do soldiers feel this, when they get back from a war? The utter weirdness of utter normality. — David Mitchell

You must be a light unto yourself. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war. — Seneca.

Soldiers don't complain ... I am not going to do it; I will pretend this is part of a war. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

When the officers are too strong and the common soldiers too weak, the result is COLLAPSE. — Sun Tzu

The detectives ransack the place with the passion of soldiers fighting a just war. — Aleksandar Hemon

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

War is the greatest evil Satan has invented to corrupt our hearts and souls. We should honor our soldiers, but we should never honor war. — Dean Hughes

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

You feel guilty. You wonder why him and not me, then you're glad it was him and not you, then you feel guilty. Soldiers live. And wonder why. — Glen Cook

Are you okay, man?"
"Yeah, I'm good."
It's a lie. I wonder if I will ever be good again. — David Bellavia

Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world. — Douglas MacArthur

Rather, both sides fought as soldiers fought in most wars - for survival, and to protect the men who had become extended family. — Stanley Weintraub

When soldiers go home, their first desire, whether they know it or not, is to have children, children being the only antidote for war. — Mark Helprin

The British soldiers are fellows who have all enlisted for drink. That is the plain fact - they have all enlisted for drink. — Duke Of Wellington

Know'st thou not there is but one theme for ever-enduring bards? And that is the theme of War, the fortune of battles, The making of perfect soldiers. — Walt Whitman

He is a true casualty of battle. There's not a physical scar, but look at the man's heart, and his head, and there are scars galore. — David Finkel

War is not natural. We have to be trained for it, soldiers and citizens alike. — Ann Jones

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

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

He who is ready to die for his country is a fool. For he didn't choose where he was born; and where he was born didn't choose him. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana