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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
Oct 1, 2025
If soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army.
In time of war, soldiers, however sensible, care a great deal more on some occasions about slaking their thirst than about the danger of enteric fever. Better known as typhoid, the disease is often spread by drinking contaminated water.
Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
What could I do but go with them Civil War soldiers, or work for them and my country? The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.
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.
There are things worth fighting for.
There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive. This ecstasy, this forgetfulness of living, comes to the artist, caught up and out of himself in a sheet of flame; it comes to the soldier, war-mad in a stricken field and refusing quarter; and it came to Buck, leading the pack, sounding the old wolf-cry, straining after the food that was alive and that fled swiftly before him through the moonlight.
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.
Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.
It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but by God, they frighten me.
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.
Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
It is not only the living who are killed in war.
War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.
Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
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.
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
In war, truth is the first casualty.
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
When this war is over, the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell!
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.
The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.
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.
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.
Don't forget, incoming fire has the right of way.
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.
The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
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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.
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.