Quotes with soldier

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  • Laurence Sterne The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • George S. Patton The most vital quality a soldier can possess is self-confidence.
    George S. Patton
    American Army General during World War II (1885 - 1945)
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  • Jeremy Bentham The schoolmaster is abroad! And I trust to him armed with his primer against the soldier in full military array.
    Jeremy Bentham
    English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer (1748 - 1832)
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  • Sextus Propertius The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.
    Sextus Propertius
    Roman poet (47 - 15)
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  • Anne Campbell The sensors have many potential practical uses - in Government buildings, train carriages, cargo containers, on a soldier's lapel - and are a thousand times cheaper than current sensors that are used for the same purpose.
    Anne Campbell
    English politician (1940 - )
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  • Douclas MacArthur The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
    Douclas MacArthur
    American general (1880 - 1964)
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  • Thomas Paine The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • C. J. Cherryh The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort.
    C. J. Cherryh
    American writer (1942 - )
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  • Alexander Cockburn The weapon of the advocate is the sword of the soldier, not the dagger of the assassin.
    Alexander Cockburn
    Irish-American political journalist and writer (1941 - 2012)
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  • Charles Baudelaire There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Ben Foster There's a lot to learn from the family of a soldier as much as the soldier. Actually, 'warrior' is a better word.
    Ben Foster
    American actor (1980 - )
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  • George Santayana To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bhagavad Gita Valor, glory, firmness, skill, generosity, steadiness in battle and ability to rule - these constitute the duty of a soldier. They flow from his own nature.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Machiavelli War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • Calamity Jane When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got to be perfectly at home in men's clothes.
    The Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane, Hayes Barton Press
    Calamity Jane
    American frontierswoman (1852 - 1903)
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  • George Washington When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Bill Mauldin [One soldier to another aiming a gun at a mouse:] Aim between the eyes, Joe. Sometimes they charge when they're wounded.
    Willie & Joe: Overseas, 1943-1945, p. 123
    Bill Mauldin
    American cartoonist (1921 - 2003)
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  • Bill Mauldin [Soldier speaking to another soldier:] Why the hell couldn't you have been born a beautiful woman?
    LIFE Magazine, 16 July 1945, Cartoon Caption
    Bill Mauldin
    American cartoonist (1921 - 2003)
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