Top Soldier Quotes
My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope." Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
Pablo Picasso
This conflict is one thing I've been waiting for. I'm well and strong and young - young enough to go to the front. If I can't be a soldier, I'll help soldiers.
Clara Barton
Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.
Rutherford B. Hayes
In my early years, my father was away as a soldier in the war. When he came back, work was very difficult to come by. Even though he was a highly skilled man, a maker of furniture, the payment for that work was very poor.
Trevor Nunn
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Wilfred Owen 
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Lester B. Pearson 
Edward Gibbon 
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The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.
Laurence J. Peter 
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The entire deaths of Vietnam died in vain. And they're dying in vain right this very second. And you know what's worse than a soldier dying in vain? It's more soldiers dying in vain. That's what's worse.
Mike Gravel
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I would say that the war correspondent gets more drinks, more girls, better pay, and greater freedom than the soldier, but at this stage of the game, having the freedom to choose his spot and being allowed to be a coward and not be executed for it is his torture.
Robert Capa
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When I introduced a black soldier, Lt. Flap, in 1971, the Stars and Stripes banned the strip. They were having racial problems and thought it would increase the tensions.
Mort Walker
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As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.
Lester B. Pearson
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The American soldier is quick in adapting himself to a new mode of living. Outfits which have been here only three days have dug vast networks of ditches three feet deep in the bare brown earth. They have rigged up a light here and there with a storage battery.
Ernie Pyle
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I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier.
Andrei Platonov
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Popular Soldier Authors
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Edward GibbonRudyard KiplingWilliam Lyon Mackenzie KingMarlene DietrichJohn RatzenbergerPatty HearstDan LipinskiLester B. PearsonKurt VonnegutMary WesleyRutherford B. HayesBenito MussoliniFritz SauckelWilliam WestmorelandTrevor Nunn
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