Soldiers Quotes

"Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds and wives."

Siegfried Sassoon

"Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them."

"They carried the soldier's greatest fear, which was the fear of blushing."

Tim O'Brien

"An army marches on its stomach."

"Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love."

W. B. Yeats

"They carried all they could bear, and then some."

Tim O'Brien

"In war, there are no unwounded soldiers."

José Narosky

"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."

Douglas MacArthur

"When you go home, tell them of us and say, For your tomorrow, we gave our today."

John Maxwell Edmonds

"If a man says he is not afraid of dying, he is either lying or he is a Gurkha."

Sam Manekshaw

“The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.”

“The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers.”

"The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him."

G. K. Chesterton

"It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle."

Norman Schwarzkopf

"It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press."

Charles Province

"Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause."