Quotes with soldiers

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  • Douglas Macarthur Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
    Douglas Macarthur
    American general in WO II (1880 - 1964)
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  • Carol Ann Duffy One saw I was alive. Loosened
    his belt. My bowels opened in a ragged gape of fear.
    Between the gap of corpses I could see a child.
    The soldiers laughed. Only a matter of days separate
    this from acts of torture now. They shot her in the eye.
    Standing Female Nude (1985) Shooting Stars
    Carol Ann Duffy
    British poet and playwright (1955 - )
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  • Bill Mauldin Patton was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn't like that attitude.
    Bill Mauldin
    American cartoonist (1921 - 2003)
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  • Virginia Woolf The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Buffalo Bill The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
    The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography (1978 edition), U of Nebraska Press
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Huey Newton The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.
    Huey Newton
    African-American political activist (1942 - 1989)
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  • Margaret Mitchell The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly no engineers and mechanics. Let Yankees adopt such low callings. [Gone With The Wind]
    Margaret Mitchell
    American writer (1900 - 1949)
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  • Mary Stewart There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.
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  • Carl Paladino Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents?
    Carl Paladino
    American businessman (1946 - )
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  • David Mitchell War may be an auction for countries. For soldiers it's a lottery.
    David Mitchell
    English novelist and screenwriter (1969 - )
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  • A. B. Yehoshua We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?
    A. B. Yehoshua
    Israeli novelist (1936 - )
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  • Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington We have in the service the scum of the earth as common soldiers.
    Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington
    Irish military leader and statesman, defeated Napoleon (1769 - 1852)
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  • Calamity Jane We were ordered out to quell an uprising of the Indians, and were out for several days, had numerous skirmishes during which six of the soldiers were killed and several severely wounded.
    The Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane: A Short Memoir (2013 edition), HarperCollins
    Calamity Jane
    American frontierswoman (1852 - 1903)
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  • Lord George Byron What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Napoleon When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Louis Ferdinand Céline With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.
    Louis Ferdinand Céline
    French writer (1894 - 1961)
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  • Maxwell Bodenheim Words are soldiers of fortune
    Hired by different ideas.
    Impulsive Dialogue
    Maxwell Bodenheim
    American writer (1892 - 1954)
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  • Ambrose Bierce An account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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