Top 47 Quotes About Good Soldiers
#1. If slaves will make good soldiers, then our whole theory of slavery is wrong.
Howell Cobb
#2. I am more anxious than I can express that my men should be not only good soldiers of their country, but also good soldiers of the cross.
Stonewall Jackson
#3. Good soldiers, bad officers; however don't forget that without them we would not have any Civilization.
Erwin Rommel
#4. That's what's wrong with the country. There are too many 'good soldiers' accepting too many bad decisions.
Shirley Chisholm
#5. Let it be your pride to show all men everywhere not only what good soldiers you are, but also what good men you are.
Woodrow Wilson
#6. Good soldiers are defined by what they can endure, not by what they can inflict.
Gregory David Roberts
#7. 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.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#8. Gold will not always get you good soldiers, but good soldiers can get you gold.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#9. Good Soldiers don't sacrifice the cause for love - Lucas
If the cause isn't love then it isn't worth the sacrifice
Claudia Gray
#10. America has also forever lost the service of thousands of good soldiers who are now disabled as a result of battle wounds in Iraq. Many others will need mental and emotional rehabilitation before they can return to normal life.
John Olver
#11. How many good soldiers will die, saving these civilians? And how many people will shrug later and say: That's their job.
Ann Aguirre
#12. The sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers; for gold alone will not procure good soldiers, but good soldiers will always procure gold.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#14. he had sixty thousand as good soldiers as ever trod the earth; better than any European soldiers, because they not only worked like a machine but the machine thought. European armies know very little what they are fighting for, and care less.
Ulysses S. Grant
#15. I sincerely believe that I have served a criminal. I led my soldiers in good conscience ... but for a criminal government.
Walter Model
#16. While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.
George Washington
#17. You know a constellation of imperishable values. Live by the mighty truth and power of God. Live above the sludge of a sick society. Live among dispirited humans as the vanguard of peace and good news. Remember, our Commander in Chief has no use for tin soldiers.
Carl F. H. Henry
#18. One sailor will do us more good than two soldiers.
John Adams
#19. He knows about sacrificing himself for the good of the whole.That's what soldiers do.It's not the torture he can't forgive me for. Nor deceiving him about his people. It's because I put you in harm's way he is so angry" Then she said, very calmly, "If I could kill you, I would" - Mrsilia
Patricia Briggs
#20. Having lots of ideas doesn't mean you're clever, any more than having lots of soldiers means you're a good general.
Nicolas Chamfort
#21. Retired soldiers are the worst sufferers when they engage in financial operations. I have found that their credulity far exceeds that of widows--and that is saying a good deal.
Agatha Christie
#22. Police, I learned over the years, are like soldiers, normally good-natured people, but part of a culture of obedience to orders and capable of brutal acts against anyone designated as "the enemy" - in this case, the antiwar movement.
Howard Zinn
#23. Within the soul of each Vietnam veteran there is probably something that says "Bad war, good soldier." Only now are Americans beginning to separate the war from the warrior.
Max Cleland
#24. Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
Sallust
#25. I believe German soldiers are good and decent, and if they did anything wrong it was because of military necessity.
Wilhelm Keitel
#27. There must be some good in the life of battle, for so many good men have enjoyed being soldiers.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#28. Our soldiers and their families are benefiting. They deserve good, quality housing and they need it.
Jim Walsh
#29. I want to knit socks for the soldiers."
"It's not as easy as that," she said, looking at me strangely. "It's difficult to turn a good heel. There are competitions over it.
Sara Gruen
#30. I mean the only thing us dead soldiers got in common is that none of us was good enough or lucky enough to survive the fight. We're a host of failures.
Steven Erikson
#31. On the road, they join the bedraggled remnants of a column of exhausted Confederate soldiers evacuating burning Atlanta. Rhett makes her take note of the scene: "Take a good look, my dear. It's a historic moment. You can tell your grandchildren how you watched the Old South disappear one night."
Vivien Leigh
#32. When mighty roast beef was the Englishman's food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood
Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England's roast beef.
Henry Fielding
#33. I'm looking to be shot any time I step out of my car ... If I die, it will be in a good cause. I've been fighting for America just as much as the soldiers in Vietnam.
Medgar Evers
#34. So for, you know, for a good 20 years now I've been involved with veterans and soldiers and in support of them no matter what they're doing.
Gary Sinise
#35. Are you okay, man?"
"Yeah, I'm good."
It's a lie. I wonder if I will ever be good again.
David Bellavia
#36. I experience for the American officers and soldiers that friendship which arises from having shared with them for a length of time dangers, sufferings, and both good and evil fortune.
Marquis De Lafayette
#37. I'm pretty actively involved with the military because I think they're incredible human beings. If I can give back to them for what they're doing for us, it's a good thing. And I think to have happy soldiers, you need to feed them well.
Emeril Lagasse
#38. She died in my arms saying, "I don't want to die." That is what death is like. It doesn't matter what uniforms the soldiers are wearing. It doesn't matter how good the weapons are. I thought if everyone could see what I saw, we could never have war anymore.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#39. As long as sexist thinking socializes boys to be "killers," whether in imaginary good guy, bad guy fights or as soldiers in imperialism to maintain coercive power over nations, patriarchal violence against women and children will continue.
Bell Hooks
#40. A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.
Nicolas Chamfort
#41. At 19, your brain hasn't finished wiring itself. So the first time you have a good friend die, most people don't go through that at 19. Soldiers do. They're facing life in this accelerated, compressed form, and a lot of times, they're not ready for it.
Sebastian Junger
#42. No matter how professional soldiers might be, an avoided battle was always good news.
David Eddings
#43. We march up, moody or good-tempered soldiers - we reach the zone where the front begins and become on the instant human animals.
Erich Maria Remarque
#45. One should never send soldiers on a mission based on just good will and good intent. Unfortunately, that can mean one has to stand by and watch human rights abuses take place.
Thomas De Maiziere
#46. Soldiers in foreign camps, so far from being missionaries for good, require missionaries themselves, more than the natives. Andrew Carnegie
H.W. Brands
#47. I follow my orders without question, as a good soldier would. You ask the same from your soldiers.'
'No, I ask them to be good people. That way if they follow my orders, I will know I am doing the right thing.
Jennifer A. Nielsen
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