#soldier

Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine. ↗

— Sean Penn

#american soldiers #attack #civilians #innocent #innocent civilians

I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier. ↗

— Andrei Platonov

#feat #i #performed #russian #scale

But to the fighting soldier that phase of the war is behind. It was left behind after his first battle. His blood is up. He is fighting for his life, and killing now for him is as much a profession as writing is for me. ↗

— Ernie Pyle

#battle #behind #blood #fighting #first

The front-line soldier wants it to be got over by the physical process of his destroying enough Germans to end it. He is truly at war. The rest of us, no matter how hard we work, are not. ↗

— Ernie Pyle

#end #enough #germans #got #hard

Americans, particularly after World War II, tended to romanticize war because in World War II our cause was the cause of humanity, and our soldiers brought home glory and victory, and thank God that they did. But it led us to romanticize it to some extent. ↗

— Neil Sheehan

#because #brought #cause #did #extent

Many of our soldiers are stationed at Camp Coyote just south of the Iraqi border. This is how you know we have a strong army, when you can actually tell your enemy exactly where your camp is and what its name is. ↗

— Jon Stewart

#army #border #camp #coyote #enemy

There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death. ↗

— Mary Stewart

#closest #death #few #few men #live

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#brave #brave men #brave soldiers #just #men

I think that some of our soldiers die in the battlefield and some come home to bad health and die prematurely, just by the nature of the kind of business they're in. ↗

— Christopher Shays

#battlefield #business #come #die #health

Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts, -a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments, though it may be, - "Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart were hurried; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot, O'er the grave where our hero we buried. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#humanity #justice #law #soldier #art