Soldier Quotes

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It is never very crowded at the front.
   Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.


The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Our is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
   Omar N. Bradley


Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.
   Oliver Cromwell


If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
   Moshe Dayan


It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.
   Ferdinand Foch


No plan of battle ever survives contact with the enemy.
   Heinz Guderian


My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic.
   Chiang Kai-shek


I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.
   Robert E. Lee


No man is enitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
   Douglas MacArthur


They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.
   Douglas MacArthur


England expects that every man will do his duty.
   Horatio Nelson


Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
   George S. Patton


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


In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine.
   Erwin Rommel

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.
   William T. Sherman



If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.
   William T. Sherman



I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.
   William T. Sherman

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