"Every lover is a soldier. (Love is a warfare.) [Lat., Militat omnis amans.]"
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"War is killing the individual in it unless he has learned livingness - if he had it he wouldn't be a good soldier."
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"The scene was not a happy one yet we looked upon it in the cold stoical spirit of a soldier; a slight chilling pang and then a return soul and body to the enemy before us."
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"But the admiration for Jackson was by no means confined to his own soldiers and to his own section."
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"Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier."
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"He's a soldier; and for one to say a soldier lies, is stabbing."
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"I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion, and I will right myself like a soldier."
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"For, as I said a little way back, perfect souls are in no way repelled by trials, but rather desire them and pray for them and love them. They are like soldiers: the more wars there are, the better they are pleased, because they hope to emerge from them with the greater riches."
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"I want to see you shoot the way you shout."
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"Heavenly Father, I'm a soldier I'm gettin, hotter, cuz the world is gettin' colder."
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"You want soldiers who, when they get to a river after a long march, don't start rooting for their canteen in their pack, but just dive right in."
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"Women are brilliant. Every woman knows how to do the weirdest thing right out of the bucket. Every woman knows how to do that Hindu head wrap with the towel out of the shower. A typhoon couldn't blow that thing off their heads. Ever try to do that? You look like a drunk Iraqi soldier."
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"The business of a general is to kick away the ladder behind soldiers when they have climbed up a height."
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"The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary."
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"The most effective method of propaganda directed at the enemy forces is to release captured soldiers and give the wounded medical treatment... Whenever soldiers of enemy forces are captured, we immediately conduct propaganda among them...This immediately knocks the bottom out of the enemy's slander that the Communist bandits kill everyone on sight."
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"We must love men more than things, and I admire and weep more for the soldiers than for the churches which were only the recording of an heroic gesture which today is reenacted at every moment."
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"You may be sensitive inside, but what I see on the outside is a soldier."
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"Professional soldiers are people who die for a living."
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"The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength."
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"Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers' imperial dreams."
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