I have one sentiment for soldiers living and dead: cheers for the living; tears for the dead.
My favorite picture is a picture of American soldiers surrounding a guy in a foxhole, Iraqi soldier, and the American guy says, "We're not going to harm you. We're American soldiers. "
And while national military forces have historically resisted the full participation of women soldiers, female talent has found plenty of scope in revolutionary and terrorist groups around the planet.
I met soldiers coming back from war and I was impressed by their description of PTSD, all the symptoms: the outburst of violence, the impossibility to cope with reality anymore, all that stuff.
I think all musicians should understand that you have chosen not to be a soldier but a musician.
The business of a general is to kick away the ladder behind soldiers when they have climbed up a height.
The worse the man, the better the soldier.
Damn it all, it's the first duty of a soldier - it's the first duty of all Englishmen - to be able to tell a good lie in answer to a charge.
Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
The soldiers in Iraq are fighting, suffering and dying. . . anonymously and pointlessly, while the rest of us are free to buckle ourselves into the family vehicle and head off to the malls and shop.
The unwilling soldier will do anything to fight for a useless fabric piece of ribbon.
Should any American soldier be so base and infamous as to injure any Canadian or Indian in his person or property, I do most earnestly enjoin you to bring him to such severe and exemplary punishment, as the enormity of the crime may require. Should it extend to death itself, it shall not be disproportioned to its guilt, at such a time and in such a cause.
While soldiers can stand and fight. I can fight and feed them
God bless the soldiers and seamen, with all their brave commanders.
You want soldiers who, when they get to a river after a long march, don't start rooting for their canteen in their pack, but just dive right in.
You may be sensitive inside, but what I see on the outside is a soldier.
Brave is good - especially when you are a soldier.
Liberty knows nothing but victories. Soldiers call Bunker Hill a defeat; but liberty dates from it though Warren lay dead on the field.
No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or an unmanned airplane.
Heavenly Father, I'm a soldier I'm gettin, hotter, cuz the world is gettin' colder.