Soldier Duty Quotes

#1. Every American soldier wants as much public support as he can possibly have. That's the soldiers on duty in Iraq, and that's me, as well. We fight better knowing that our people back home support us, back us, and understand what we're doing. It's hugely important.

John Abizaid

#2. During 65 years, I have walked the path of duty and discipline ... And today, looking back at that long path of service, my soldier's heart stirs and murmurs from deep within: Thank you. Thank you, my homeland.

Augusto Pinochet

#3. Avoiding combat duty was and is an unforgivable sin for a professional soldier.

John Eisenhower

#4. The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian.

William Gurnall

#5. In should be the duty of every soldier to reflect on the experiences of the past, in the endeavor to discover improvements, in his particular sphere of action, which are practicable in the immediate future.

B.H. Liddell Hart

#6. In our Army every soldier must care about his job. Often- if the duty seems menial or hum-drum- it is hard to cultivate this attitude. But it must be done. What you do in your job each day, you do for the Army.

William O. Wooldridge

#7. As a soldier, I've served with the most brave people in an institution that's built on integrity, honor, and duty.

Tulsi Gabbard

#8. Damn it all, it's the first duty of a soldier - it's the first duty of all Englishmen - to be able to tell a good lie in answer to a charge.

Ford Madox Ford

#9. But for a soldier his duty is plain. He is to obey the orders of all those placed over him and whip the enemy wherever he meets him.

Ulysses S. Grant

#10. What is the death of a soldier even off duty of an occupying army walking in an occupied territory against the death of a little boy screaming in terror in his father's arms Where is the equivalence

Linda Grant

#11. Part of a soldier's duty is to fill gaps ... one must be willing to be nothing, as something.

Amy Carmichael

#12. Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape? ... If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#13. And like the old soldier in that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the sight to see that duty.

Douglas MacArthur

#14. We must differentiate between guilt and duty. The soldier on the front, like the common man, who does his duty everywhere, should not be held responsible for the actions of a few who also called themselves Germans.

Oskar Schindler

#15. Thomas looked around and tried not to let his duty turn him bitter. These were good men, and he would not leave them behind. He had chosen this, an unselfish life.

Jessica Fortunato

#16. It is a sure criterion of the civilisation of ancient Egypt that the soldiers did not carry arms except on duty, and that the private citizens did not carry them at all.

William Winwood Reade

#17. -"Why do men like you do the job you do? It can't be for the medals. And it's certainly not the money."
Stone said nothing.
-"Why then? God and country?"
-"Both simpler and more complex, Mr. President."
-"What then?"
-"So I can look at myself in the mirror.

David Baldacci

#18. But why must everything always have a practical application? I'd been such a diligent soldier for years - working, producing, never missing a deadline, taking care of my loved ones, my gums and my credit record, voting, etc. Is this lifetime supposed to be only about duty?

Elizabeth Gilbert

#19. It is made the duty of every Commanding Officer in the Department, to arrest and send to these Headquarters, under guard, every officer or soldier who may be found absent from his command, without the regular leave in writing, prescribed by Regulations and General Orders.

John Hunt Morgan

#20. For us to ignore by inaction the slaughter of American civilians and American soldiers, whether in nightclubs or airline terminals, is simply not in the American tradition. Self-defense is not only our right, it is our duty.

Ronald Reagan

#21. soldier's first duty, his reason for being, is not to fight. Fighting is the final recourse for any civilized people. His duty is not even to preserve the peace; that is a police officer's job,

Evan Currie

#22. It's the duty of a Republic soldier to be loyal to the end, and I'm still a soldier. I will be one until I die.

Marie Lu

#23. I am not going to talk about patriotism, duty, liberty, and the defense of freedom because that's all dung to a soldier.

David Gemmell

#24. A soldier's first duty is to obey, otherwise you might as well do away with soldiering.

Albert Kesselring

#25. vowing himself to "just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty." After

Philip Roth

#26. Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.

Douglas MacArthur

#27. Lock it away," the half-man whispered. "You feel, after. Not now. Now you are a soldier. Now you do your duty for your pack. If you break, your Mouse will die, and you with him. Feel, after. Not now.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#28. It is tragic to have to realize that the best I had to give as a soldier, obedience, and loyalty, was exploited for purposes which could not be recognized at the time, and that I did not see that there is a limit set even for a soldier's performance to his duty. That is my fate.

Wilhelm Keitel