366 Quotes About Soldier

But you can’t put fight into a man’s guts if hehasn’t any fight in him. There are some of us so cowardly that youcan’t ever make heroes of us, not even if you frighten us to death.We know too much, maybe. There are some of us who don’t live in themoment, who live a little ahead, or a little behind.

If only conversations could be more like missions. Identify the target. Get in, do the job, and get out as quickly as possible.

The lady laughed a little laugh and said, “A man with a strong body as yours is not capable of doing anything more than showing a few shiny pieces of cloth? Where is the obsession of the moth that hurtles itself into the flame out of devotion?”“Show me first the wick that burns itself to light the room, Ma’m?

The only care a soldier must have in war is to let the fleeting advantage of the enemy take the confidence of his inner field.

...a good soldier should ride into Paradise bearing the soul of the woman he loved.

Damn the wars but bless the soldier.

Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts, -a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments, though it may be, -"Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note,As his corse to the rampart were hurried;Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot,O'er the grave where our hero we buried.

We are trained fighting machines. Peace is not an option for us. We’re jarheads. What the hell do we know about peace?

Come on!- Soldier boy!?