#soldier

Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty. ↗

— Sallust

#defend #friends #good #good deeds #honesty

I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers. ↗

— Siegfried Sassoon

#am #behalf #convinced #i #i am

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

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers. ↗

— Norman Schwarzkopf

#fathers #killing #left #means #mothers

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

— Norman Schwarzkopf

#any #fighting #his #salt #should

Bin Laden, who was in his country, attacked and damaged our Pentagon, and killed our soldiers right out here at the Pentagon. But his pentagon no longer exists. It is rubble. ↗

— Jeff Sessions

#bin #country #damaged #exists #here

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