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
The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
— Virginia Woolf
Revolutions are good times for soldiers of talent and courage.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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
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
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
Business is war and your past clients and customer's great online reviews are your elite soldiers in battle. — Tom Kenemore
War was war and soldiers were the same the world over, although killing came easier to some than others. — Sharon Kay Penman
I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination. — Neil Gaiman
War is not natural. We have to be trained for it, soldiers and citizens alike. — Ann Jones
When the officers are too strong and the common soldiers too weak, the result is COLLAPSE. — Sun Tzu
When the common soldiers are too strong and their officers too weak, the result is INSUBORDINATION. — Sun Tzu
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
A man dreams of a miracle and wakes up to loaves of bread. — Erich Maria Remarque
Come on soldiers! Guardians and agents of the supreme law! Here is a sacrifice of dogs ready for your swords! — Ilghazi
Fifteen millions of soldiers with popguns and horses All bent upon killing, because their "of courses" Are not quite the same. — Amy Lowell
War has become an affair of machines ... and soldiers are little more than clever mechanics. — Alberto Moravia
All generals, officers, and soldiers who capitulate in battle to save their own lives should be decimated. — Napoleon Bonaparte
And it's been proved that soldiers don't go madUnless they lose control of ugly thoughts
That drive them out to jabber among the trees. — Siegfried Sassoon
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
Hopefully one day Wars will only be fought in movies. And may the best producer win! — Stanley Victor Paskavich
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
When World War II started on September 1, 1939, the German army contained 3.74 million soldiers and 103 divisions. — John Mearsheimer
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
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
Rather, both sides fought as soldiers fought in most wars - for survival, and to protect the men who had become extended family. — Stanley Weintraub
Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world. — Douglas MacArthur
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
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
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
They fought the enemy, we fight fat living and self-pity. Shine, o shine, unfalsifying sun, on this sick scene. — Marianne Moore
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
God works through people by stirring their hearts and sometimes people never know how they are helping others. — Colby Buzzell
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
The gallantry and aggressive fighting spirit of the Russian soldiers command the American army's admiration. — George C. Marshall
I would like to speak in terms of praise due to the many brave officers and soldiers who have fought in the cause of the war. — Abraham Lincoln
The ultimate objective of subsidies should be to empower the poor, to break the cycle of poverty, and become foot-soldiers in our war on poverty. — Narendra Modi
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 army consists of the first infantry division and eight million replacements. — Sebastian Junger
The Maid and her soldiers will have the victory. Therefore the Maid is willing that you, Duke of Bedford, should not destroy yourself. — Joan Of Arc
