Soldier Quotes

I shall endeavour to discharge my duty to society, considering myself only as the citizen, moved by the melancholy necessity of taking up arms for the public safety.

Richard Montgomery

Whatever mourns when many leave these shores: Whatever shares The eternal reciprocity of tears.

Plant your lands and reap; these be your best gold fields, for all must eat while they live.

Luís María Peralta

I may say this is a deluded generation, veiled with ignorance, that tho popery and slavery be riding in upon them, do not perceive it; tho I am sure there was no man born marked of God above another, for none comes into the world with a saddle on his back, neither any booted and spurred to ride him.

Richard Rumbold

The conscience is the best and most impartial judge that a righteous man has.

José de San Martín

No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full.

Lucius Cornelius Sulla

Praise be to the Lord, my rock, who trains my fingers for battle and my hands for war.

Ricardo Sanchez

Prince Asaka had joined the army only about ten days before its entry into Nanking and in view of the short time he was connected with this army I do not think he can be held responsible. I would say that the Division Commanders are the responsible parties.

It is not possible to foretell the reaction of certain elements in the Army and Navy.

Yoshijirō Umezu

If there were mistakes, there were mistakes. But a man has to have a line of work, no?

Look. What happened, that was just business. Personal betrayal I can understand. But never betrayal of one's people you serve, or your country.

I stay right here and fight it out or die in the attempt.

Once you have acquired the skills, you must test them on an opponent, but in no way should you consider victory or submission to be a cause for shame or pride. Rather, you ought to think, "By what means did I defeat him?" Or, "By what means could have I defeated him?" Then you exert and test yourself for a while.

The poorest he that is in England hath a life to live as the greatest he.

Thomas Rainsborough

A message came on the wireless for me. It said: 'spread alarm and despondency'. So the time had come, I thought, Eighth Army was taking the offensive. The date was, I think, May 18th, 1942.

Vladimir Peniakoff

With what a perfect hatred I detest this war without an enemy.

Join a Highland regiment, me boy. The kilt is an unrivalled garment for fornication and diarrhoea.

To her daughter Penelope of her future son-in-law, the poet John Betjeman:

We invite people like that to our houses, but we don't marry them.

Philip Chetwode, 1st Baron Chetwode

This will be a campaign unlike any other in history. A campaign characterized by shock, by surprise, by flexibility, by the employment of precise munitions on a scale never before seen, and by the application of overwhelming force.

There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life—happiness, freedom, and peace of mind—are always attained by giving them to someone else.

Peyton C. March

My family history begins with me, but yours ends with you.

Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes.

William Prescott

Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war let it begin here!

John Parker (captain)

There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry. Two carefree days, kept sacredly free from fear and apprehension. One of these days is Yesterday.... And the other day I do not worry about is Tomorrow.

Robert Jones Burdette

Whether or not our system of Indian management has been a success during the past ten, fifty, or hundred years is almost answered in the asking.

Nelson A. Miles