Top 861 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Soldiers - Page 9

Be kind and help others. Let the ones you love know you love them.

Issue the orders, sir, and I will storm hell!

As far as Zarqawi is concerned, there is a network of extremists; it's not just Zarqawi.

Revenge is a powerful motivator.

My definition, a definition in the drill books from the time that General Von Steuben wrote the regulations for General George Washington, the definition of the object of military training is success in battle... It wouldn't be any sense to have a military organization on the backs of the American taxpayers with any other definition.

Adherence to dogmas has destroyed more armies and cost more battles than anything in war.

But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and such ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be, whenever and wherever the hour strikes and calls to noble action.

Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.

The governments of the Western nations, whether monarchical or republican, had passed into the invisible hands of a plutocracy, international in power and grasp. It was, I venture to suggest, this semi-occult power which....pushed the mass of the American people into the cauldron of World War I.

I just made a balls of it, old boy. That's all there was to it.

I was commanding officer of a supersonic fighter squadron, F-8 Crusaders.

I disagree with a lot of those changes, however at the end of the day - I go down to recruit graduation at least once or twice a year.

Possessed with a full confidence of the certain success which British valor must gain over such enemies, I have led you up these steep and dangerous rocks, only solicitous to show you the foe within your reach.

Al Qaeda has significance beyond its numbers, frankly. And so for us, our 24-hour-a-day objective is to seek out those al Qaeda cells. And, as we seek them out, to target them and eliminate them. And we're doing that 24 hours a day.

I got this letter asking me if I wanted to or if I would consider going to experimental test pilot school and becoming the first Negro astronaut and I thought it was crazy.

Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.

Our generals talk a good game about taking care of their grunts, and the majority of our Beltway politicians bay with moralistic fervor about how they, too, support the troops.

He who gives love, receives love.

The village had a mill near it, situated on the little creek, which made very good flour. The population consisted of civilized Indians, but much mixed blood.

If the guilt of sin is so great that nothing can satisfy it but the blood of Jesus; and the filth of sin is so great that nothing can fetch out the stain thereof but the blood of Jesus, how great, how heinous, how sinful must the evil of sin be.

I gave my parole once, and it has been shamefully violated by the British Government; I shall not give another to people on whom no faith can be reposed.

Army life don't agree with me.

'Mustanging' was like trout fishing. It is always the big ones that get away. When you did get a bunch of them into a corral, you found they did not look half so large and handsome as when they were first sighted on the prairie.

Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.

We were marooned in a frozen desert. There was not a sign of life on the horizon and a thousand signs of death... The marvel is we did not all die of cold.

The present times require the vigor and the activity of the prime of life; but I feel the increasing infirmities of age to such a degree, that I am conscious I cannot serve you to advantage.

9/11 did not really impact me, but I remember sitting in my 6th grade math class. I remember the teachers just being in a panic and turning on our TVs and I remember the impact in the look of just disbelief and sadness and shock that was on my teacher's face.

Such indeed is the superior longevity of the fair females of Surinam, compared to that of the males (owing chiefly, as I said, to their excesses of all sorts) that I have frequently known wives who have buried four husbands, but never met a man in this country who had survived two wives.

Sybil's my wife, and on the first day of October, that's the first time I knew Ross was going to run.

I want to show people no matter what they go through there's a light at the end of the tunnel.

I was a lieutenant in World War II.

The only time we can fail is if we quit. Most perceived failures are only stepping stones being small problems encountered along the path to a goal. Obstacles are opportunities for growth, therefore, encourage and embrace them.

I can make men follow me to hell.

The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.

I went to Ft Bragg and learned that Delta was indeed gearing up for the rescue. Still I was concerned the Reagan staff would not be willing to take the risk of sending an official military force into Laos.

Visibility is not equality.

The press and free speech landscape has totally changed. There is far less news reporting today. Instead, we have this endless stream of - largely meaningless and speculative - analysis by sideline commentators and self-proclaimed "experts."

War is organized murder, and nothing else.

If you mind tells your body you can't do it, you will quit. If your body is giving up, but you think you can carry on, you will naturally keep putting one foot in front of the other.

On the 28th the ship's company received two months pay in advance, and on the following morning we worked out to St. Helen's, where we were obliged to anchor.

The Old City of Jerusalem is in our hands.

Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.

We need to go to the niceties of approaching the U. N. and let them have a chance to take it over, but we should set some sort of date and begin to move out and leave it to whoever takes over.

I have not missed a day from work because of illness since 1956.

For too long people have backed companies on hope value rather than solid products coming out. Now we are coming out the other side.

War is hell. Hollywood fantasizes about it and makes it look good... war sucks.

I would have rather been dead and laying on the battlefield dead than to find out later on that one of my men were killed and didn't have me, their medic, to somehow get them out of the danger and into the safety of the perimeter.

I'm the last guy left. That's what happens when you live to 84.

If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.

Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie.

I have given the United States half the territory they possess, and for them to suffer me to remain in poverty, in consequence of it, will not redound much to their honor hereafter.

In theory it may seem all right to some, but when it comes to being made the instrument of the Lord's vengeance, I myself don't like it.

I would be willing, yes glad, to see a battle every day during my life.

I would hate to see operations in the Congo held hostage to Sierra Leone but I really think that's the way it's got to be. At one point we've got to decide to get it right and we've got to be professional.

Well, I enjoy sharing in the dangers that we ask our men and women in uniform to share in almost every day.

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

I'm just trying to get back to normal life.

If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.

I joined the 800th MP Brigade when they were already deployed.

I'm never gonna date again, because I can't imagine meeting a woman that's good enough for my daughters.