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
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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 
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I don't think I could be a foot soldier. I don't know if I could take orders too good. I'm a little lazy.
Benicio Del Toro
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Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and if you let that bother you, you're not a good soldier.
Curtis Lemay
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Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
Karl Kraus
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No American soldier should be allowed to set foot on Iranian soil, regardless of the criticism we have of the Iranian government.
Shirin Ebadi
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Like the old soldier of the 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.
Douglas MacArthur
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Just because I was almost 62, I did not feel decrepit and felt I wasn't finished being a soldier yet.
Gerald Griffin
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I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.
Thomas Jefferson
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I had repeatedly made written requests to the Fuehrer that I might be allowed to join the Wehrmacht as an ordinary soldier. He refused to give me this permission.
Fritz Sauckel
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The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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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 WestmorelandOtto von Bismarck
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