#Soldier Quotes

“I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion, and I will right myself like a soldier.”

“When the course of events shall have removed you to distant scenes of action where laurels not nurtured with the blood of my country may be gathered, I shall urge sincere prayers for your obtaining every honor and preferment which may gladden the heart of a soldier.”

“I regard myself as a soldier, though a soldier of peace.”

“Death on the battlefield is welcome to a soldier.”

“I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.”

“My men don't surrender. I don't want to hear of any soldier under my command being captured unless he has been hit. Even if you are hit, you can still fight back.”

“Every man is scared in his first battle. If he says he's not, he's a liar. Some men are cowards but they fight the same as the brave men or they get the hell slammed out of them watchingmen fight who are just as scared as they are. The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared.”

“I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.”

“To be a successful soldier, you must know history.”

“The soldier is the army.”

“The most vital quality a soldier can possess is self-confidence.”

“There's only one way for a professional soldier to die. That's from the last bullet of the last battle of the last war.”

“The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one’s country”

“Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.”

“When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.”

“To be a successful soldier you must know history. . . . What you must know is how man reacts. Weapons change but man who uses them changes not at all. To win battles you do not beat weapons - you beat the soul of man of the enemy man.”

“...It is a proud privilege to be a soldier – a good soldier … [with] discipline, self-respect, pride in his unit and his country, a high sense of duty and obligation to comrades and to his superiors, and a self confidence born of demonstrated ability.”

“And it is a great thing to die in your own bed, though it is better still to die in your boots.”