#soldier

Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows. ↗

— Siegfried Sassoon

#death #dividend #drawing #grey #land

I could not have the honour of being a German soldier because of my imprisonment in the First World War. And in this world war the Fuehrer refuses to allow me to serve as a soldier. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

#because #being #could #first #first world

I had repeatedly made written requests to the Fuehrer that I might be allowed to join the Wehrmacht as an ordinary soldier. He refused to give me this permission. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

#fuehrer #give #give me #had #i

If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say? ↗

— Charles Schumer

#geneva #geneva convention #obsolete #others #our

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#boxes #carry #cartridge #cartridges #grub

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#british #except #office #soldier #stand

India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border. ↗

— Hu Shih

#border #centuries #china #conquered #culturally

The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#citizen #discipline #feel #first #formed

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#best #gets #his #lord #out

If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army. ↗

— Frederick II

#begin #remain #soldiers #them #think