Top 861 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Soldiers

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.

Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.

Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.

You play like you practice and practice how you play.

Nothing is impossible in this world. Firm determination, it is said, can move heaven and earth. Things appear far beyond one's power, because one cannot set his heart on any arduous project due to want of strong will.

I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

The collapse of the Soviet Union could not have been a source of national pride for many in Russia. The one person who has capitalized on this the most has been Vladimir Putin.

I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.

Scars are a truly beautiful thing. Yes, they can be a little ugly on the outside, but scars show that you're a survivor, that you made it through something, and not only did you make it through, but now you're stronger and wiser and more educated because of that tough time that you went through.

It was my duty to shoot the enemy, and I don't regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn't save: Marines, soldiers, buddies. I'm not naive, and I don't romanticize war. The worst moments of my life have come as a SEAL. But I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job.

When you're challenged to the extreme, you learn so much about yourself. And when you're willing to give that ultimate sacrifice, when you're willing to tackle a job or a task or a mission head-on and give 100%, you can achieve amazing things because you're almost fearless.

If imperialism is not banished from the country, China will perish as a nation. If China does not perish, then imperialism cannot remain.

I just try to go out and help others, to do whatever I can to make a difference.

Everybody respects the Vietnam Veterans of America.

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.

Don't fight the problem, decide it.

I wanted the American public to know that not everyone in Iraq and Afghanistan were targets that needed to be neutralized, but rather people who were struggling to live in the pressure cooker environment of what we call asymmetric warfare.

And across Afghanistan, every single day, Afghan soldiers, Afghan police and ISAF troops are serving shoulder-to-shoulder in some very difficult situations. And our engagement with them, our shoulder-to-shoulder relationship with them, our conduct of operations with them every single day defines the real relationship.

Every American soldier wants as much public support as he can possibly have. That's the soldiers on duty in Iraq, and that's me, as well. We fight better knowing that our people back home support us, back us, and understand what we're doing. It's hugely important.

I feel very confident that Americans flying in the air are safe and that only under the most dire of circumstances would our pilots ever even request permission to do that.

War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.

For a homosexual, he's one of the nicest guys I ever met. And he's good at what he does. You know, he's got leadership ability, and if these people here would listen to him, he would take 'em a long way. But anyway, me and Richard got to be pretty good friends - not in a homosexual way, that's for sure.

Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.

I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.

I think character is permanent, and issues are transient.

We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much.

Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.

The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest problems we face internationally are problems of the human soul.

The sweetest of all sounds is praise.

It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.

To say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from the bottom of his heart that's the case, strikes me as most unrealistic.

The reason I exercise is for the quality of life I enjoy.

I knew how many MPs I had assigned to the brigade, how many military prison operations I would be running, but we needed to evaluate how many criminal prison operations we could support.

Intervention continues to be a prominent dimension of the post-cold war world.

The truth is always more heroic than the hype.

If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and we lose it quickly.

Love without sex is still the most efficient form of hell known to man.

Pain is weakness leaving the body.

Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea

All the tribes tell the same story. They are surrounded on all sides, the game is destroyed or driven away; they are left to starve, and there remains but one thing for them to do - fight while they can.

The zeal, bravery, and good behavior of the officers and men on the night of June 30, and during July 1, was commendable in the extreme.

To receive this award from an organization I admire so much makes me totally happy and grateful.

In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.

As I was born to be unfortunate, my sun soon clouded.

In our passage from the Cape of Good Hope the winds were mostly from the westward with very boisterous weather: but one great advantage that this season of the year has over the summer months is in being free from fogs.

You're never going to catch me calling myself a hero unless I'm joking.

What happened? The Country got sick of it and said, Enough is enough. And all over the Country we saw springing up community organizations determined to do something about this terrible menace of drugs.

Lead from the front.

We imagined that the mildness of our government and the wishes of the people were so correspondent that we were not as other nations, requiring brutal force to support the laws.

A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people; but a strong people can alone build up a great nation.

The moment for action has arrived, and I know that I can trust in you to save our country.

There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.

Each tribe has its characteristics, it is true.

As son of a Republican president, Dwight D. Eisenhower, it is automatically expected by many that I am a Republican. For 50 years, through the election of 2000, I was.

People think SEALs are cold-blooded, heartless, wound-up, brainwashed killers. They imagine you can just point a SEAL in a direction and say, 'Go kill.' The truth is you're talking about a bunch of kind-hearted, jovial guys. The only thing that separates them is mental toughness.

The fact is that Americans were sent to Russia that have not been returned.

You must first clearly see a thing in your mind before you can do it.

Every people should be originators of their own destiny.