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Drummer, beat, and piper, blowHarper, strike, and soldier, goFree the flame and sear the grassesTil the dawning Red Star passes
You've never lived until you've almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.
We march up, moody or good-tempered soldiers - we reach the zone where the front begins and become on the instant human animals.
Any time there's a lot of pressure, it's life and death, you go toward this very dark kind of humor. Soldiers do it. Cops do it.
Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.
Armies are a purely human invention. Most soldiers who go to war nowadays don't even do it because they're inherently aggressive.
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.
Soldiers live. He dies and not you, and you feel guilty, because you're glad he died, and not you. Soldiers live, and wonder why.
No American soldier should be allowed to set foot on Iranian soil, regardless of the criticism we have of the Iranian government.
MISERICORDE, n. A dagger which in mediaeval warfare was used by the foot soldier to remind an unhorsed knight that he was mortal.
War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists by cynics.
I see you have returned, my love; and your mood is as dark as ever. Did your soldiers not adore you to your complete satisfaction?
Fortifications, artillery, foreign aid - will be of no value, unless the ordinary soldier knows that it is HE guarding his country
I always felt that whatever I had to endure was nothing compared to what the average soldier, sailor or airman had to put up with.
No one who accepts the sovereignty of truth can be a foot soldier in a party or movement. He will always find himself out of step.
A very, very impressive director, Tomas Alfredson. It's only his second film [ 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy'], but he's a real find.
The day the army of Virginia allows a negro regiment to enter their lines as soldiers they will be degraded, ruined, and disgraced.
I appeal to you as a soldier to spare me the humiliation of seeing my regiment march to meet the enemy and I not share its dangers.
Every morning is a battle between the superego and the id, and I am a mere foot soldier with mud and a snooze button on her shield.
To be a good soldier, you must love the army. To be a good commander, you must be willing to order the death of the thing you love.
A father who denies a child of his attention is no better than a fully-equipped medic who watches idly as a soldier bleeds to death.
By the apostle Paul, shadows tonight Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers.
The only absolutely and unapproachably heroic element in the soldier's work seems to be-that he is paid little for it-and regularly.
Every soldier I've ever met knows that you've got to do more than just run out onto the battlefield screaming, 'We're going to win!'
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.
Attacks on cities are strategically justified in so far as they tend to shorten the war and so preserve the lives of allied soldiers.
The Maid and her soldiers will have the victory. Therefore the Maid is willing that you, Duke of Bedford, should not destroy yourself.
America does not like losers. Look how we treated those soldiers who came back from Vietnam. Because they lost. America likes winners.
We are all happy when U.S. soldiers are killed week in and week out. The killing of U.S. soldiers in Iraq is legitimate and obligatory.
A good soldier, whether he leads a platoon or an army, is expected to look backward as well as forward; but he must think only forward.
I've never been a soldier. In Denmark, at 18, as a male, you go in a draw, and if they pick you, you go and serve for a year. I didn't.
...but for a soldier his duty is plain. He is to obey the orders of all those placed over him and whip the enemy wherever he meets him.
Like a soldier back from battle you fill my vision. You're a flood, a baptism I'd forgotten, and the force of you leaves me breathless.
And Oliver North was really a good soldier, up to the last moment, shoving memos into the shredder and defending the policy to the end.
Egypt firmly and strongly condemns such attacks on civilians and soldiers that led to the deaths of a large number of innocent victims.
Let a prince be guarded with soldiers, attended by councillors, and shut up in forts; yet if his thoughts disturb him, he is miserable.
Liberty knows nothing but victories. Soldiers call Bunker Hill a defeat; but liberty dates from it though Warren lay dead on the field.
These mercenaries and hirelings kidnapped civilians in the Al-Faw Peninsula so that they might claim that they captured Iraqi soldiers.
For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it.
I am a person always full of contradictions... It was hard to choose whether to devote myself to revolution as a soldier or as a writer.
There's something about an American soldier you can't explain. They're so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them.
I surrendered my moral conscience to the fact that I was a soldier, and therefore a cog in a relatively low position of a great machine.
There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either.
Everyone gives what he has. The soldier gives strength, the merchant goods, the teacher instruction, the farmer rice, the fisherman fish.
An Israeli soldier is raised on values of respecting human life, and they don't change their values when they turn 18 and enter the army.
I met someone from the German side and we both shared the same opinion: we fought, we finished and we were friends... It wasn't worth it.
When you make a war movie, the other side has to be the enemy. You're making a war movie from the point of view of a soldier fighting it.
I see many soldiers; could I but see many warriors! "Uniform" one calleth what they wear; may it not be uniform what they therewith hide!
Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
Bonaparte knew but one merit, and rewarded in one and the same way the good soldier, the good astronomer, the good poet, the good player.