Browsing Topic Best Military Soldier Quotes

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

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. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

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.

In war there is no substitute for victory.

The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive the Veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their nation.

Get the hell out of my way!

When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.

Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers.

Among the men who fought on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

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.

The highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is bearing arms.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one’s country

I’m fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

A soldier is he whose blood makes the glory of the general.

I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.

American soldiers in battle don’t fight for what some president says on T.V., they don’t fight for mom, apple pie, the American flag…they fight for one another.

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.

I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm’s 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.

Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes! Then fire low!