Stonewall Jackson Quotes

Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from falling hands we throw.

We were taught to kill the enemy. They were evil. We were doing something good.

We shall kill. If you have not killed at least one German a day, you have wasted that day... Do not count days; do not count miles. Count only the number of Germans you have killed.

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.

People try to glorify war, particularly those who aren't actually fighting in them. People tend to make heroes of those who are fighting in them.

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

It's an odd feeling, knowing someone is trying to kill you. On the front line, you learn quickly that if you're in the path of a bullet, you will get hit.

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

I, Philip Kearny, an old soldier, enter my solemn protest against this order for retreat.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

In 1967, I signed up for the Army, where I earned an equivalency diploma, then went on to join the Special Forces. That was really was the turning point in my life. I became more disciplined and focused. I went overseas and was in combat, got wounded a couple of times, lost a lot of good friends but matured a great deal.

General Reynolds immediately found himself engaged with a force which greatly outnumbered his own, and had scarcely made his dispositions for the action when he fell, mortally wounded, at the head of his advance.

Israel should not feel satisfaction at my son's death, for he died on the battlefield, facing the conquerors as he wished, with a gun in his hand.

The whole point of being in the Army is wanting to get killed, wanting to test yourself to the limits. Now you have to fly 15,000ft above the war zone to avoid getting hit. I don't think there is any point in having wars if that's how you're going to behave. It's pathetic. All this whining!

I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.

The army is the true nobility of our country.

Ask any soldier. To kill a man is to merit a woman.

When this sad war is over we will all return to our homes, and feel that we can ask no higher honor than the proud consciousness that we belonged to the Army of the Potomac.

We all know it's brutal up there at the front, especially those of us at the rear.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

Sending our young men and women into battle is perhaps the most serious course of action a Nation can undertake.

Each had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their duty.

I have fought for many years. I have killed many men. I have never seen a foreigner die.

How beautiful it is to make my bomb shrapnel kill the enemy. How beautiful it is to kill and be killed.

There are only two ways to come back from the battlefield: With the head of an enemy or without your own.