soldier quotes

• To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman. (George Santayana) [delight/war/soldier/quality]
• The schoolmaster is abroad! And I trust to him armed with his primer against the soldier in full military array. (Jeremy Bentham) [trust/soldier]
• The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [soldier]
• A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr) [soldier/horse/color]
• I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary. (Thomas Jefferson) [think/soldier]
• Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state. (Thomas Jefferson) [soldier/state]
• Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea. (Samuel Johnson) [soldier]
• Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children? (Karl Kraus) [soldier]
• By profession I am a soldier and take pride in that fact. But I am prouder -- infinitely prouder -- to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentiality of death; the other embodies creation and life. And while the hordes of death are mighty, the battalions of life are mightier still. It is my hope that my son, when I am gone, will remember me not from the battle field but in the home repeating with him our simple daily prayer, Our Father Who Art in Heaven. (Douglas MacArthur) [soldier/take/pride/soldier]
• 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) [soldier/career/soldier/god]
• By profession I am a soldier and take pride in that fact. But I am prouder -- infinitely prouder -- to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentiality of death; the other embodies creation and life. And while the hordes of death are mighty, the battalions of life are mightier still. It is my hope that my son, when I am gone, will remember me not from the battle field but in the home repeating with him our simple daily prayer, Our Father Who Art in Heaven. (Douglas MacArthur) [soldier/take/pride/soldier]
• 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) [soldier/career/soldier/god]
• The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. (Thomas Paine) [soldier/willpower/crisis/service]
• To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman. (George Santayana) [delight/war/soldier/quality]
• I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating. (Mark Twain) [soldier/more]
• When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen. (George Washington) [soldier]
• My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope." Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso. (Pablo Picasso) [mother/soldier/willpower/willpower]
• Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. (Alec Guinness) [soldier]
• I just did a movie called Stealing Harvard, and I played somebody's father. In Saving Private Ryan, I was a soldier. (Dennis Farina) [movie/soldier]
• A true woman always loves a real soldier. (Billy Boyd) [soldier]
• There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either. (James Callaghan) [loss/soldier]

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