Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.
Soldiers Quotes
If you are able, save for them a place Inside of you and save one backward glance when you are leaving for the places they can no longer go. Be not ashamed to say you loved them, though you may or may not have always. Take what they have left and what they have taught […]
In many a country cottage over the land, a tall old clock in a quiet corner told time in a tick-tock deliberation. Whether the orchard branches hung with pink-spray blossoms or icicles of sleet, whther the outside news was seedtime or harest, rain or drouth, births or deaths, the swing of the pendulum was right […]
Hold the fort! I am coming!
The Marine Corps does more for world peace than all the Ben and Jerry’s ice cream ever made.
It would repel me less to be a hangman than a soldier, because the one is obliged to put to death only criminals sentenced by the law, but the other kills honest men who like himself bathe in innocent blood at the bidding of some superior.
There’s many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
He sat in a wheeled chair, waiting for dark, And shivered in his ghastly suit of grey, Legless, sewn short at elbow. Through the park Voices of boys rang saddening like a hymn, Voices of play and pleasures after day, Till gathering sleep had mothered them from him… He thought he’d better join. He wonders […]
Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives.
What makes you go abroad, fighting for strangers When you could be safe at home, free from all dangers? A recruiting sergeant came our way To an Inn nearby at the close of day He said young Johnny you’re a fine young man Would you like to march along behind a military band, With a […]
