Quotes on Soldiers At War

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!

In war, truth is the first casualty.

War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

In time of war, soldiers, however sensible, care a great deal more on some occasions about slaking their thirst than about the danger of enteric fever. Better known as typhoid, the disease is often spread by drinking contaminated water.

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

In war there is no substitute for victory.

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.

It is not only the living who are killed in war.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

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

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

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

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.