Heroism is latent in every human soul – However humble or unknown, they (the veterans) have renounced what are accounted pleasures and cheerfully undertaken all the self-denials – privations, toils, dangers, sufferings, sicknesses, mutilations, life-long hurts and losses, death itself – for some great good, dimly seen but dearly held.
Soldiers Quotes
Christian soldiers are to wage the war of Christ their master without fearing that they sin in killing their enemies – If they kill it is to the profit of Christ; if they die it is to their own.
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
Abrupt, adj. Sudden, without ceremony, like the arrival of a cannon-shot and the departure of the soldier whose interests are most affected by it.
Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshipers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely and systematically that might is not right. The fact is obvious. The might is in the hundred men who obey. The right (or what is held to be right) is […]
Dragoon, n. A soldier who combines dash and steadiness in so equal measure that he makes his advances on foot and his retreats on horseback.
Recruit, n. A person distinguishable from a civilian by his uniform and from a soldier by his gait.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.
Well how do you do young Willie McBride, Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside, And rest for a while ‘neath the warm summer sun? I’ve been walking all day, and I’m nearly done. I see by your gravestone you were only nineteen When you joined the great fallen in 1916. […]
If I should die, think only this of me: That there’s some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed.
