Quotes on Military Soldier

Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!

These are the times that try men's souls.

The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive the Veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their nation.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; . . . who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.

In war there is no substitute for victory.

**** the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!

Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.