They looked like two little boys playing soldier. They seemed to be having a wonderful time, too wonderful in fact. It made me a little sad somehow. (On Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill whom she had observed in animated conversation about war in the White House’s map room during Churchill’s visit soon after the […]
Soldiers Quotes
In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it’s more dangerous to lose than to win.
The worse the man the better the soldier. If soldiers be not corrupt they ought to be made so.
I want to see you shoot the way you shout.
What do I care for the colored pins on a General’s map? It’s not a fair bargain – this exchange of my life for a small part of a colored pin.
A soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers, There was a lack of woman’s nursing, there was dearth of woman’s tears; But a comrade stood beside him, while his lifeblood ebbed away.
It is as a soldier that you make love and as a lover that you make war.
You mark time, waiting. I waited, mom – but then I got cheated. They made a speech, and played a trumpet, and dressed me in a uniform, and then they killed me.
If you are able, save for them a place Inside of you and save one backward glance when you are leaving for the places they can no longer go. Be not ashamed to say you loved them, though you may or may not have always. Take what they have left and what they have taught […]
The soldier is not a man of violence. He carries arms and risks his life for mistakes not of his making. He has the merit of being unflinchingly true to his word to the end, while knowing that he will be forgotten.
