Soldiers usually win the battles and generals get the credit for them. –Napoleon Bonaparte
Soldiers are citizens of death’s grey land, drawing no dividend from time’s tomorrows. –Siegfried Sassoon
The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession. –Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
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
Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and if you let that bother you, you’re not a good soldier. –Curtis LeMay
Soldiers willingly, sometimes foolishly, risk their own lives to keep their comrades out of enemy hands. –Alex Berenson
Old soldiers never die; they just fade away. –Douglas Macarthur
Everyone knows what can happen to soldiers who are in front line units. –Richard Engel
I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight. –General George S. Patton
Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives. –Siegfried Sassoon
A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments. –Georg C. Lichtenberg
Soldiers are men…most apt for all manner of services and best able to support and endure the infinite toils and continual hazards of war. –Henry Knyvett
The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue. –Napoleon Bonaparte
A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers. –Norman Schwarzkopf
Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace. –Ulysses S. Grant
