Soldiers proverbs

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◆ 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

- George S. Patton Jr.99

◆ We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.

- Erich Maria Remarque99

◆ I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

- George S. McGovern99

◆ Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they've been given.

- Orson Scott Card99

◆ We came to realise - first with astonishment, then bitterness, and finally with indifference - that intellect apparently wasn't the most important thing...not ideas, but the system; not freedom, but drill. We had joined up with enthusiasm and with good will; but they did everything to knock that out of us.

- Erich Maria Remarque99

◆ Nowadays you have to be a scientist if you want to be a killer. No, no, I was neither. Ladies and gentleman of the jury, the majority of sex offenders that hanker for some throbbing, sweet-moaning, physical but not necessarily coital, relation with a girl-child, are innocuous, inadequate, passive, timid strangers who merely ask the community to allow them to pursue their practically harmless, so-called aberrant behavior, their little hot wet private acts of sexual deviation without the police and society cracking down upon them. We are not sex fiends! We do not rape as good soldiers do. We are unhappy, mild, dog-eyed gentlemen, sufficiently well integrated to control our urge in the presence of adults, but ready to give years and years of life for one chance to touch a nymphet. Emphatically, no killers are we. Poets never kill.

- Vladimir Nabokov99

◆ No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.

- Erich Maria Remarque99

◆ America without her Soldiers would be like God without His angels.

- Claudia Pemberton99

◆ There has seldom if ever a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the security, comfort and prejudices of their elders, and what you call heroism is just an expression of this simple fact; there is never a scarcity of idiots.

- Iain Banks99

◆ I have gone to war and now I can issue my complaint. I can sit on my porch and complain all day. And you must listen. Some of you will say to me: You signed the contract, you crying bitch, and you fought in a war because of your signature, no one held a gun to your head. This is true, but because I signed the contract and fulfilled my obligation to fight one of America's wars, I am entitled to speak, to say, I belong to a fucked situation.

- Anthony Swofford99

◆ Military guys are rarely as smart as they think they are, and they've never gotten over the fact that civilians run the military.

- Maureen Dowd99

◆ War is the greatest evil Satan has invented to corrupt our hearts and souls. We should honor our soldiers, but we should never honor war.

- Dean Hughes99

◆ A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.

- William Makepeace Thackeray99

◆ When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.

- Frederic Bastiat98

◆ A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.

- Chamfort98