My Soldier Quotes

O God of battles! steel my soldiers’ hearts. Possess them not with fear.

The moon gives you light, and the bugles and the drums give you music, and my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans, my heart gives you love.

My son Hannibal will be a great general, because of all my soldiers he best knows how to obey.

A leader is the man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do, and like it.

Heaven is weary of the luxury of China. I shall remain in the wilderness of the north. I shall return to simplicity and moderations once again. As for the clothes I wear and the food I eat, I shall have the same as cowherds and grooms and I shall treat my soldiers as brothers. In a hundred battles I have been at the forefront and within seven years I have performed a great work, for in six directions of space all things are subject to one ruler.

Get there first with the most men.

If it's about the lives of my soldiers at stake, I'd go through hell with a gasoline can.

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty.

During 65 years, I have walked the path of duty and discipline... And today, looking back at that long path of service, my soldier's heart stirs and murmurs from deep within: Thank you. Thank you, my homeland.

I sincerely believe that I have served a criminal. I led my soldiers in good conscience... but for a criminal government.

Give me enough ribbons to place on the tunics of my soldiers and I can conquer the world.

As wars come and go, my soldier stays eternal

The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

I am involved in the land of a leonine and brave people, where every foot of the ground is like a well of steel, confronting my soldier. You have brought only one son into the world, but everyone in this land can be called an Alexander.

Really I think I like who I'm becomin.. There's times where I might do it just to do it like it's nothin. It's times where I might blow like 50k on a vacation for all my soldiers just to see the looks on all their faces, all it took was patience

I do not want to criticize while my soldiers are still bleeding and dying in Iraq.

Heaven grew weary of the excessive pride and luxury of China... I am from the Barbaric North. I wear the same clothing and eat the same food as the cowherds and horse-herders. We make the same sacrifices and we share.. our riches. I look upon the nation as a new-born child and I care for my soldiers as though they were my brothers.

I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.

Live for something rather than die for nothing. —George Patton

Live for something rather than die for nothing.

I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but by God, they frighten me.

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.

S. E. Smith's I Live in a Hut has a deceptively simple title, considering that the brain in that hut contains galaxies-worth of invention: At night when your soldiers are praying ceaselessly for less rain and more underwear my soldiers make underwear out of rain. These poems seesaw between despair and delight but delight is winning the battle. Smith is a somersaulting tightrope walker of a poet and her poems will make you look at anything and everything with new eyes: For days I tried to rub the new freckle // off my hand until I realized what it was / and began to grant it its sovereignty.

Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

Get the hell out of my way!

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

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.

We have met the enemy and they are ours.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

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.

When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty. It may not sound nice to some bunch of little old ladies at an afternoon tea party, but it helps my soldiers to remember. You can't run an army without profanity; and it has to be eloquent profanity. An army without profanity couldn't fight its way out of a piss-soaked paper bag. As for the types of comments I make, sometimes I just, By God, get carried away with my own eloquence.

**** the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.