#Soldiers Quotes

“Make sure that the beer - four pints a week - goes to the troops under fire before any of the parties in the rear get a drop.”

“Soldiers! Forty centuries behold you!”

“A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.”

“It is not set speeches at the moment of battle that render soldiers brave.”

“Give me enough ribbons to place on the tunics of my soldiers and I can conquer the world.”

“Ordinary men died, men of iron were taken prisoner: I only brought back with me men of bronze.”

“The sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers; for gold alone will not procure good soldiers, but good soldiers will always procure gold.”

“The sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers.”

“Gold will not always get you good soldiers, but good soldiers can get you gold.”

“Give me enough medals and I’ll win you any war”

“When defending itself against another country, a nation never lacks men, but too often, soldiers.”

“The first quality of a soldier is constancy in enduring fatigue and hardship. Courage is only the second. Poverty privation and want are the school of the good soldier.”

“The worse the man, the better the soldier.”

“The worse the man the better the soldier. If soldiers be not corrupt they ought to be made so.”

“The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.”

“To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war.”

“I never expect a soldier to think.”

“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.”

“Bravery in simple soldiers is a dangerous trade, to which they have bound themselves to get their livelihood.”

“One of George Washington's main concerns was to make sure that his soldiers had adequate supplies of meat: A part of the army has been a week without any kind of flesh, and the rest three or four days. Naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their suffering to a general mutiny and dispersion.”

“I dare say the men would fight very well if properly officered, although they are an exceedingly dirty and nasty people.”

“In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.”

“To expect ... the same service from raw and undisciplined recruits, as from veteran soldiers, is to expect what never did and perhaps never will happen. Men, who are familiarized to danger, meet it without shrinking; whereas troops unused to service often apprehend danger where no danger is.”

“The Army, as usual, are without pay; and a great part of the soldiery without shirts; and though the patience of them is equally threadbare, the States seem perfectly indifferent to their cries.”

“Soap is another article in great demand--the Continental allowance is too small, and dear, as every necessary of life is now got, a soldier's pay will not enable him to purchase, by which means his consequent dirtiness adds not a little to the disease of the Army.”

“It is absurd to believe that soldiers who cannot be made to wear the proper uniform can be induced to move forward in battle. Officers who fail to perform their duty by correcting small violations and in enforcing proper conduct are incapable of leading.”

“Give me an Army of West Point graduates and I'll win a battle... Give me a handful of Texas Aggies and I'll win a war.”

“[T]he hour is fast approaching, on which the Honor and Success of this army, and the safety of our bleeding Country depend. Remember officers and Soldiers, that you are Freemen, fighting for the blessings of Liberty - that slavery will be your portion, and that of your posterity, if you do not acquit yourselves like men.”

“Many, who should know better, think that wars can be decided by soulless machines, rather than by the blood and anguish of brave men.”

“Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.”

“Professional soldiers are people who die for a living.”

“The soldier 's courage and sacrifice is full of glory , expressing devotion to country , to cause, to comrades in arms. But war itself is never glorious , and we must never trumpet it as such.”

“Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.”

“For it has been said, all that a man hath will he give for his life; and while all contribute of their substance the soldier puts his life at stake, and often yields it up in his country's cause. The highest merit, then is due to the soldier.”

“I would like to speak in terms of praise due to the many brave officers and soldiers who have fought in the cause of the war.”