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
George Bernard Shaw 
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If I have got to be a soldier, I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable.
Wilfred Owen 
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One of the things that makes our military the best in the world is the certain knowledge of each soldier, sailor, airman, and Marine that they can always count on their comrades should they need help - that they will never be abandoned.
Jon Kyl
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The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession.
Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
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The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort.
C. J. Cherryh
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Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had disintegrated.
George Grosz
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One doesn't become a soldier in a week - it takes training, study and discipline. There is no question that the finest Army in the world is found in the United States.
Daniel Inouye
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Money is the sovereign queen of all delights - for her, the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights.
Richard Barnfield
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Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier.
William Petty
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
Patrick MacGill
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Popular Soldier Authors
George Bernard ShawMohandas GandhiThomas Jefferson OvidGeorge SantayanaNapoleon BonaparteDwight D. EisenhowerPablo PicassoLoretta LynnGeorge WashingtonKarl KrausOrlando BloomLaurence J. PeterDenzel WashingtonDouglas MacArthur
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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