Quotes on My Soldier

Heaven grew weary of the excessive pride and luxury of China... I am from the Barbaric North. I wear the same clothing and eat the same food as the cowherds and horse-herders. We make the same sacrifices and we share.. our riches. I look upon the nation as a new-born child and I care for my soldiers as though they were my brothers.

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

The moon gives you light, and the bugles and the drums give you music, and my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans, my heart gives you love.

**** the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!

A leader is the man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do, and like it.

When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty. It may not sound nice to some bunch of little old ladies at an afternoon tea party, but it helps my soldiers to remember. You can't run an army without profanity; and it has to be eloquent profanity. An army without profanity couldn't fight its way out of a piss-soaked paper bag. As for the types of comments I make, sometimes I just, By God, get carried away with my own eloquence.

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

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

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

O God of battles! steel my soldiers’ hearts. Possess them not with fear.