Peter the Great
Tsar
"Soldiers' bellies are not satisfied with empty promises and hopes."
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Soldier
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Clara Barton
Nurse, Activist
"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."
Niccolo Machiavelli
Political Philosopher, Historian
"Gold will not always get you good soldiers, but good soldiers can get you gold."
Kurt Vonnegut
Novelist, Satirist
"He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo."
Smedley Butler
Military Officer, Author
"The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag."
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"God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at least they prevent us from being frightened by them."
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"When German soldiers used to come to my studio and look at my pictures of Guernica, they'd ask 'Did you do this?'. And I'd say, 'No, you did.'"
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"While soldiers can stand and fight.I can fight and feed them"
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"Don't be ashamed to need help. Like a soldier storming a wall, you have a mission to accomplish. And if you've been wounded and you need a comrade to pull you up? So what?"
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"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."
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"We will be soldiers, so our sons may be farmers, so their sons may be artists"
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"Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?"
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"The soldier who fights to death never dies, but the soldier who fights for existence never truly exists."
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"The worse the man, the better the soldier."
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"No one told these American soldiers they might be shot down by bullets made by their own brothers here. No one told them that the ships on which they were going to cross might be torpedoed by submarines built with US patents."
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"A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid."
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"Far in foreign fields from Dunkirk to Belgrade Lie the soldiers and chiefs of the Irish Brigade."
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"A soldier when aged is not appreciated; the love of an old man sickens."
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"When a soldier is hit by a cannonball, rags are as becoming as purple."
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"O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain."
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"Military cemeteries around the world are packed with brainwashed dead soldiers who were convinced God was on their side. America prays for God to destroy our enemies. Our enemies pray for God to destroy us. Somebody's gonna be disappointed! Somebody's wasting their time! Could it be.. everyone?"
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"If I profess with loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except that little point which the world and the Devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved, and to be steady on all the battlefield besides, is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point."
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"War is then not a relationship between one man and another, but a relationship between one State and another, in which individuals are enemies only by accident, not as men, nor even as citizens, but as soldiers; not as members of the fatherland, but as its defenders. Finally, any State can only have other States, and not men, as enemies, inasmuch as it is impossible to fix a true relation between things of different natures."
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"A smoke in times of rest is a great companion to the solitary soldier."
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"I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left..."
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