Soldiering Quotes

Soldiering is a very important profession, is it not?

This soldiering thing sadly deadens that very good thing, humanity.

A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.

I entered the navy with the great ambition of becoming a naval soldier and going to war. Either I die from this festering wound - because I refuse to have my arm amputated - or I recover from it and continue being a soldier. I have a one-in-two chance, and I shall bet my life on it!

All Americans should take great pride in the men and women serving our nation in Iraq and in the courage, determination, resilience and initiative they demonstrate each and every day. It remains the greatest of honors to soldier with them.

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

My very identity as a soldier came to an abrupt end. I'd been soldiering as long as I'd been shaving. Suddenly I'd been told I could no longer soldier, and it felt as though no one really cared if I ever shaved again.

A soldier's first duty is to obey, otherwise you might as well do away with soldiering.

Being a soldier [in the wars of modern power politics] was like being on a team in a sport that drew no crowds, except for the players' own parents and friends.

And then, for an old man like me, it's not exactly right,This kind o' playing soldier with no enemy in sight.

This conflict is one thing I've been waiting for. I'm well and strong and young - young enough to go to the front. If I can't be a soldier, I'll help soldiers.

Battle is the soldier's vital breath! Peace turns him into a stooping asthmatic. War makes him a whole man again, and gives him the heart, strength, and vigor of a hero.

The war now is away back in the past, and you can tell what books cannot. When you talk, you come down to the practical realities just as they happened. You all know this is not soldiering here. There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. You can bear this warning voice to generations yet to come. I look upon war with horror, but if it has to come, I am there.

I've grown up, luckily, with only a distant relationship to war and soldiering.

Growing up, we never got to see a hero who didn't have superpowers who looked like us, that you could kind of look to and say, 'I could be that guy one day. I could be a patriot. I could be a soldier. I could work in the government and be a hero.'

The outfit soon took on color, dash and a unique flavor which is the essence of that elusive and deathless thing called soldiering.

A preacher must be both soldier and shepherd. He must nourish, defend, and teach; he must have teeth in his mouth, and be able to bite and fight.

From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel: thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies

As a woman, especially when you have children, one gets so good at soldiering on - almost too good.

The Long and the Short and the Tall made a great impression on me because it was a very ugly tale about the reality of soldiering at a time when we were being gung-ho about the whole thing of war.

I am proud of my service and proud of those who served alongside me. But war is about more than service and sacrifice - it's about winning.