A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color.
Soldiers Quotes
As “Old soldiers never die,” I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever.
Tell them of us and say, For their tomorrow, We gave our today. (Used on a monument erected at the British military cemetery at Kohima, Assam, India, in memory of those who died in World War II’s largest Asian land battle near there in 1944)
These, in the day when heaven was falling The hour when earth’s foundations fled, Followed their mercenary calling, And took their wages, and are dead. Their shoulders held the sky suspended; They stood, and earth’s foundations stay; What God abandoned, these defended, And saved the sum of things for pay.
They died hard – those savage men – not gently like a stricken dove folding its wings in peaceful passing, but like a wounded wolf at bay, with lips curled back in sneering menace, and always a nerveless hand reaching for that long sharp machete knife which long ago they had substituted for the bayonet. […]
I gave my life for freedom – this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.
The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.
However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country is the noblest development of mankind.
When they (civilians) hear about an airstrip being taken or a piece of land taken, they are happy as they should be. But I often wonder if they stop to think there have been a lot of boys blown apart and killed and lost arms and legs and eyes and a lot more I’m not […]
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
