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“The American soldier demonstrated that, properly equipped, trained and led, he has no superior among all the armies of the world.”
Lucian Truscott (1895–1965) first seen 1954 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Command Missions, A Personal Story, New York, 1954,
“For the helmsman is recognized in the tempest; in the warfare the soldier is proved.”
Cyprian (200–258) said by 258 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I looked for certain attributes in a soldier. I know the modern method is to put the attributes into a computer and see what comes out. But as far as I am concerned, the computer is the worst damn instrument devised by man to screw up man-management.”
Christopher Vokes (1904–1985) said by 1985 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Often Burne found himself saying, “I don’t think you would make a very good soldier,” and with grating predictability he heard that he wouldn’t make a very good pacifist.”
James K. Morrow (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This was a killer. Quite possibly a soldier, though Lilo was not expert in mental diseases.”
John Varley (1947–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A Soldier should never have to hide their family. The strength of our Soldiers is our families.”
Tammy Smith (born 1963) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Army Times, September 2, 2012.
“There’s something about an American soldier you can’t explain. It's a quality... They’re so grateful, so heartbreakingly grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them. They say thank you for coming, and they really mean it.”
Marlene Dietrich (1901–1992) first seen 1944 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Welcome, Marlene" by Leo Lerman, Vogue (August 15, 1944), p. 188
“To-day, in spite of the prospects, our faith is undiminished. Our hearts may be sad—mine certainly is—but I have handed in none of my papers of enlistment in the Army of Peace. I am still in the ranks of that Army: a fighting soldier to remain there and act there and strive there as long as there is breath in my body and persuasion in my lips.”
Ramsay MacDonald (1866–1937) first seen 1934 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in Southampton (13 November 1934), quoted in The Times (14 November 1934), p. 16
“Bear your command with humility. Lead, do not condescend. Remember, these are great events and men will rise to them. Treat every man as a Soldier. He may surprise you and be one.”
Steven Pressfield (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A soldier has one item that cannot be neglected. His feet. They are his wheels, his mechanised warfare.”
Leon Uris (1924–2003) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Quotes for the Air Force Logistician, pub. Air Force Logistics Management Agency (2001), p. 115
“I was bypassed in 1932 possibly because of my academic handicaps and so called social position in life. I was still an ordinary soldier holding a minor rank.”
Dhyan Chand (1905–1979) first seen 1932 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Earlier when in 1932 when his claims for Captaincy was overlooked in page 60
“But when the dreaded moment's there He'll face us all, a soldier yet, Watch his bared wounds with unmoved air, (Though tell-tale lashes still are wet), And smoke his Woodbine cigarette.”
Eva Dobell (1876–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One murmurs soft and low a woman's name; And here a vet'ran soldier calm and still As sculptured marble sleeps, and roams at will Through eastern lands where sunbeams scorch like flame, By rich bazaar and town, and wood-wrapt snow-crowned hill.”
Eva Dobell (1876–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fierce boils in every vein Indignant shame and passion blind, The tempest of the lover's mind, The soldier's high disdain.”
John Conington (1825–1869) said by 1869 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Patriotism is often the cry extolled when morally questionable acts are advocated by those in power. When these cries of patriotism drown out any logically based dissension, it is usually the American soldier that is given the order to carry out some ill-conceived mission.”
Chelsea Manning (born 1987) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The system is wrong. I am ashamed to be an American. And the title of 'U.S. soldier' is just the lie of fools.”
Bowe Bergdahl (born 1986) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“….and Rosie, having baptized me with her cidrous kisses, married a soldier and I lost her for ever.”
Laurie Lee (1914–1997) said by 1997 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Reza Shah was not an atheist and could best be described as an agnostic. He was, for a while, fascinated by the teachings of Zoroaster, Iran's pre-Islamic prophet, but his fascination should be understood in the context of his old soldier's dream of restoring Iran to its ancient grandeur. Mohammad-Reza, on the other hand, was deeply religious, even to the point of rejecting all free will.”
Amir Taheri (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A soldier of the civil authority must be taught not to kill men and to refuse to do so if he is commanded, and to refuse to take an oath; if he is unwilling to comply, he must be rejected.”
Hippolytus of Rome (170–235) said by 235 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If a catechumen or a believer seeks to become a soldier, they must be rejected, for they have despised God.”
Hippolytus of Rome (170–235) said by 235 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I thank you sir for your generous sympathy, but I die the death I always prayed for, the death of a soldier fighting for the rights of man.”
Johann de Kalb (1721–1780) first seen 1780 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To a British military officer (August 1780), as quoted in Washington and the Generals of the American Revolution (1856), by Rufus Wilmot Griswold, William Gilmore Simms, and Edward Duncan Ingraham. J.B. Lippincott, p. 2…
“It is unbecoming to a soldier, all this book-learning.”
Michael Shaara (1928–1988) said by 1988 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I was trying to warn you. But... you have no Cause. You and I, we have no Cause. We have only the army. But if a soldier fights only for soldiers, he cannot ever win. It is only the soldiers who die.”
Michael Shaara (1928–1988) said by 1988 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The documents proving the ark existed were given to a Russian soldier to deliver to the Czar. When he reached Moscow, he was captured by the Communists. Rumor has it he was shot, and the documents fell into the hands of Trotsky, the Communist leader. All the documents disappeared!”
Jack T. Chick (1924–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Clavain had been a soldier. He had killed more people than he could remember, even though those days had been a long time ago. It was really a lot less difficult to do when you had a cause to believe in.”
Alastair Reynolds (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It was a numbers game, not a guaranteed method of avoiding being killed, but Clavain had been a soldier long enough to know that this was, ultimately, what most combat situations boiled down to.”
Alastair Reynolds (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Contrary to Indians’ self-congratulatory notion that India is vishwa guru (guru to the world), in reality it is Harvard that is the vishwa guru. And India is vishwa shishya (student), with many of its people serving as vishwa coolie (laborer), and vishwa sepoy (soldier) in this ecosystem.”
Rajiv Malhotra (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The soldier came knocking upon the queen's door, He said "I am not fighting for you any more.”
Suzanne Vega (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I can imagine nothing except being a footman or common soldier as more degrading than being either a barber or a tailor.”
Francis Place (1771–1854) said by 1854 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To Diddy, The Best Taylor Soldier”
Maxwell D. Taylor (1901–1987) said by 1987 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There's the all mighty powerful ones like Mr. Khan — which is a con artist himself, and he uses the death of his son, who's an American soldier, which we respect and honor, and he uses that to go after Trump, which I found very distasteful.”
Paul LePage (born 1948) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In an interview with Boston radio host . (August 25, 2016)
“Ever since I was a child I never wanted to be anything else but a soldier.”
George S. Patton IV (1923–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No officer I ever met, either above or below me in rank, could touch General Creighton W. Abrams. He was the best soldier I have ever known, including all the members of my family.”
George S. Patton IV (1923–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are an Island. Every soldier that wants to go anywhere out of England - a sailor has got to carry him there on his back.”
John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher (1841–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I said, “I am a soldier, grown old and tired and confused. I have been fighting since before you were born. And I have yet to see anything gained.”
“She did not seem offended, so I added my secret philosophy of life: any dork who became a soldier for an idea instead of the money deserved to die for his country. You’re going to put it all on the table, six up with some other guy, it damned well better be for stakes you can carry away.”
“You are a hired sword. A soldier. You should not be playing philosophical games. Not even with yourself.”
“A man may be a thoroughgoing soldier enough on land; but put him in the foot ropes of the flying jibboom in a storm, and he is apt to cut a most ludicrous figure. Shift a physicist's foothold of Cartesian differential coordinates, suspend him over an abyss of non-Euclidean space, and he will kick sturdily. Poor policy this, for a missionary!”
Carl Barus (1856–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Even two days after the Soviet Republic had been proclaimed, Hitler stood for election again, when the new regime conducted an election among Munich's soldier councils to ensure support for the Soviet Republic by Munich's military units. Hitler was now elected Deputy Battalion Representative and remained in the post for the entire lifespan of the Soviet Republic.”
Thomas Weber (historian) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am a soldier. I get orders. I execute them.”
Dietrich von Choltitz (1894–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I must emphasise that at private soldier level you frequently have no idea where you are, or precisely how you got there, let alone why.”
George MacDonald Fraser (1925–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Defending slavery deprived the Confederate soldier to the same claim to nobility, but not to tragedy.”
Allen C. Guelzo (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Women and children were the prize of the warriors, and as early as the days of Qutbuddin Aibak "even a poor Muslim householder (who was also a soldier) became owner of numerous slaves.”
Qutb al-Din Aibak (1150–1210) said by 1210 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fakhr-i-Mudabbir, Tarikh Fakhruddin Mubarak Shah, p. 20. quoted from Lal, K. S. (1999). Theory and practice of Muslim state in India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. Chapter 4
“Peons or servants are exceedingly numerous in this country... for every one-be he mounted soldier, merchant or king’s official-keeps as many as his position and circumstances permit. Outside the house, they serve for display, running continually before their master’s horse; inside, they do the work of the house, each knowing his duty...”
Francisco Pelsaert (1591–1630) said by 1630 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Pelsaert, quoted from Lal, K. S. (1992). The legacy of Muslim rule in India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan.
“Every person has a first name, a middle name, and a last name. That person has a history. He has a family. He has a mother and a father, maybe a wife and a child. He has friends. Each time an American soldier dies, there is a long and powerful aftershock, rippling across continents, felt intimately by someone- maybe by many people- half a world away.”
Salvatore Giunta (born 1985) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thus she ruled undisputed within her own domain, and was to us a tower of moral and spiritual strength, until the coming of the border white man, the soldier and trader, who with strong drink overthrew the honor of the man, and through his power over a worthless husband purchased the virtue of his wife or his daughter. When she fell, the whole race fell with her.”
Charles Eastman (1858–1939) said by 1939 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Indians are most enlightened, for they have at least one distinct impression regarding government. They know that it never keeps it word. Any old chief will tell you that white men are all liars, and if you press him regarding it, he will prove it, and the only exception he will make is the white soldier.”
Frederic Remington (1861–1909) first seen 1890 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Indians as Irregular Cavalry,” Harper’s Weekly, (Dec. 27, 1890), as quoted in The Collected Writings of Frederic Remington, Peggy & Harold Samuels, Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Company (1979) p. 59
“Soldiers get paid sometimes. Bandits have to fend for themselves. But when the warlords don't have the money, their soldier become bandits. [...] Peking's supposed to pay the warlords. I mean, they're official generals, servants of the government , right? Most of them are bandits is what I say.”
Malcolm Bosse (1926–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Tang is the best soldier in China”
Malcolm Bosse (1926–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You know what's worse than a soldier dying in vain? It's more soldiers dying in vain.” — On staying in Iraq. Speech.”
Mike Gravel (1930–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source