Quotes with soldier

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  • Mark Twain I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Anthony Doerr I found my first novel difficult. I don't want to make it sound like it's any more difficult than driving a cab or going to any other job, but there are so many opportunities for self-doubt, that you just kind of need to soldier on.
    Anthony Doerr
    American author (1973 - )
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I never expect a soldier to think.
    The Devil's Disciple (1901)
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Thomas Jefferson I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Bob Dylan In a soldier's stance, I aimed my hand at the mongrel dogs who teach
    Fearing not that I'd become my enemy in the instance that I preached
    My existence led by confusion boats, mutiny from stern to bow.
    Another Side of Bob Dylan (1964)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • B. H. Liddell Hart In should be the duty of every soldier to reflect on the experiences of the past, in the endeavor to discover improvements, in his particular sphere of action, which are practicable in the immediate future.
    B. H. Liddell Hart
    British soldier and military historian (1895 - 1970)
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  • Dean William R. Inge Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of a great battle.
    Dean William R. Inge
    Dean of St Paul's, London (1860 - 1954)
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  • Douglas Macarthur Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.
    Douglas Macarthur
    American general in WO II (1880 - 1964)
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  • Bill Mauldin My outlook on warfare is best illustrated by a cartoon I did some thirty-odd years ago of a soldier in an Italian foxhole reading about the Normandy invasion and observing to his buddy that: The hell this ain't the most important hole in the world. I'm in it.
    Mud & Guts : A Look at the Common Soldier of the American Revolution
    Bill Mauldin
    American cartoonist (1921 - 2003)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Napoleon: What shall we do with this soldier, Giuseppe? Everything he says is wrong. Giuseppe: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says will be right.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Louis de Bernieres No man is a man until he has been a soldier.
    Kapitein Corelli's mandoline (1994) 104
    Louis de Bernieres
    British novelist (1954 - )
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  • Sir Edwin Arnold One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.
    Sir Edwin Arnold
    English poet and journalist (1832 - 1904)
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  • A. J. P. Taylor Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman never gave offence to anyone not even the enemy.
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • Andrew Young President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn't kill anybody and he didn't get anyone killed.
    Andrew Young
    Amercan activisit and minister (1932 - )
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  • Thomas Moore Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my side in the course of mankind if our creeds agree?
    Thomas Moore
    Irish poet (1779 - 1852)
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  • Bai Ling Somehow I feel a little bit odd in Tiananmen Square because I was a soldier, in a uniform, watching those leaders and tanks, and I was part of them.
    Bai Ling
    Chinese-American actress (1966 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
    The Devil's Disciple (1901)
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Edward Gibbon The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • Kurt Vonnegut The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: ''he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth.''
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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