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A soldier is he whose blood makes the glory of the general.
Sep 10, 2025
Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.
The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one’s country
Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
The highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is bearing arms.
I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.
Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.
Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
In war there is no substitute for victory.
War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
Get the hell out of my way!
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive the Veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their nation.
Don't forget, incoming fire has the right of way.
I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.
It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
We have met the enemy and they are ours.
Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes! Then fire low!
Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.
American soldiers in battle don't fight for what some president says on T.V., they don't fight for mom, apple pie, the American flag...they fight for one another.
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
Among the men who fought on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue.
It is not the critic who counts
So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; . . . who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.
When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
These are the times that try men's souls.
To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.