Soldiers Quotes

But whether on the scaffold high Or in the battle’s van, The fittest place where man can die Is where he dies for man!

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.

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.

Here Sunday, April, 9, 1865, after four years of heroic struggle in defense of the principles believed to be fundamental to the existence of our government, Lee surrendered 9000 men, the remnant of an army still unconquered in spirit.