Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes

You have to be a soldier and a veteran, or a soldier who sacrificed your life for your country.

Professional soldiers are people who die for a living.

The sex is ever to a soldier kind.

I mean the only thing us dead soldiers got in common is that none of us was good enough or lucky enough to survive the fight. We're a host of failures.

Washington has thrown their soldiers on the fire.

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

I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war.

As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.

I was drafted when I was 17, and I spent two years, and I lost a friend in war.

You are fit for something better than ... cannon fodder.

You believe you are dying for the fatherland—you die for some industrialist.

A nation's youths shouldn't be sent off to die.

Only the soldier is a free man, because he can look death in the face.

Thank you," she whispered, "for keeping yourself alive, soldier." "You're welcome," he whispered back.

Death on the battlefield is welcome to a soldier.

This does not mean that you are warmongers. On the contrary, the soldier above all other people prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. But always in our ears ring the ominous words of Plato, that wisest of all philosophers: "Only the dead have seen the end of war.

There are 160,000 of our men and women in Iraq that wonder whether there is going to be a hand grenade or a missile lobbed into where they are sleeping at night. Those are people who make a real sacrifice.

The word 'hero' has been bandied about a lot to refer to anyone killed in Afghanistan or Iraq. But anyone who voluntarily goes to Afghanistan or Iraq [as a soldier] is fighting for an evil cause under an evil commander in chief.

I call on God Almighty to have mercy on the German people. More than two million German soldiers went to their death for the fatherland before me. I follow now my sons - all for Germany.

Society can give its young men almost any job and they'll figure how to do it. They'll suffer for it and die for it and watch their friends die for it, but in the end, it will get done. That only means that society should be careful about what it asks for. ... Soldiers themselves are reluctant to evaluate the costs of war, but someone must. That evaluation, ongoing and unadulterated by politics, may be the one thing a country absolutely owes the soldiers who defend its borders.

If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath,I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base,And speed glum heroes up the line of death.

The soldiers in Iraq are fighting, suffering and dying . . . anonymously and pointlessly, while the rest of us are free to buckle ourselves into the family vehicle and head off to the malls and shop.

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

During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.

Tikka Khan was a soldier doing a soldier's job.