I'm an amalgamation of what I've needed to be. Part scholar, part rebel, part nobleman, part Mistborn, and part soldier. Sometimes I don't even know myself. I had a devil of a time getting all those pieces to work together. And, just when I'm starting to get it figured out, the world up and ends on me.
Every French soldier carriers a marshal's baton in his knapsack.
A ship is worse than a gaol. There is, in a gaol, better air, better company, better conveniency of every kind; and a ship has the additional disadvantage of of being in danger.
General Longstreet,when once in a fight, was a most brilliant soldier; but he was the hardest man to move I had in my army.
Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers.
A leader must be ready to send the soldiers under his command to their deaths
Die never for a god, Nikodemos who should know better - not your soldiers' god, nor any other.
Tatiana. . . you and I had only one moment. . . " said Alexander. "A single moment in time, in your time and mine. . . one instant, when another life could have still been possible. " He kissed her lips. "Do you know what I'm talking about?" When Tatiana looked up from her ice cream, she saw a soldier staring at her from across the street. "I know that moment," whispered Tatiana.
I see you have returned, my love; and your mood is as dark as ever. Did your soldiers not adore you to your complete satisfaction?
Like a soldier back from battle you fill my vision. You're a flood, a baptism I'd forgotten, and the force of you leaves me breathless.
When the war started, religion and superstition (whatever the difference is) permeated the lives of ordinary soldiers, who lived in a thought world not too far removed from the seventeenth century.
Words are soldiers of fortune hired by different ideas.
The only absolutely and unapproachably heroic element in the soldier's work seems to be-that he is paid little for it-and regularly.
I write back to all the soldiers who write to me and send them posters and calendars.
Brave soldier, never fear. Even though your death is near.
It isn't right to be obedient only when things go well; it is much harder to be a good, obedient soldier when things go badly and times are hard. Obedience and faith at such time is a virtue.
It is not set speeches at the moment of battle that render soldiers brave.
Dunkirk has fallen. . . with it has ended the greatest battle of world history. Soldiers! My confidence in you knew no bounds. You have not disappointed me.
The business of a general is to kick away the ladder behind soldiers when they have climbed up a height.
The sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers.
