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"My faith in human dignity consists in the belief that man is the greatest scamp on earth. Human dignity must be associated with the idea of a scamp and not with that of an obedient, disciplined and regimented soldier."
"And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we say to him, "Use it well, use it wisely."
"When the US withdrew their troops from Somalia, I recall making a comment that [in] the way the peacekeepers had been withdrawn from Somalia, the impression had been given that the easiest way to unravel a peacekeeping operation is to kill a few soldiers."
"The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth."
"Universal ratification of the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict will establish an international moral consensus that no child should take part in hostilities or be involuntarily recruited and that former child soldiers should be assisted by their governments after a life of violence and distress."
"Every soldier, every cop who's faced with a decision to make, a life or death, does the best he or she can."
"I am also deeply concerned with the widespread, often undiagnosed, incidents of PTSD and the alarming suicide rates amongst our returning soldiers."
"The one weapon every man, soldier, sailor, or airman should be able to use effectively is the rifle."
"It is as a soldier that you make love and as a lover that you make war."
"Fair Katherine, and most fair, Will you vouchsafe to teach a soldier terms Such as will enter at a lady's ear, And plead his love-suit to her gentle heart?"
"That in the captains but a choleric word Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy."
"Development is a lot cheaper than sending soldiers."
"Soldiers win battles and generals get the medals."
"An army travels on its stomach. Soup makes the soldier."
"I tell you Wellington is a bad general, the English are bad soldiers; we will settle this matter by lunch time."
"There must be some good in the life of battle, for so many good men have enjoyed being soldiers."
"There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva Convention are subject to the death penalty. And that doesn't mean the soldier that committed them - that means the commanders."
"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."
"God bless the soldiers and seamen, with all their brave commanders."
"If we begin to say, "Well, maybe we can cope better with the Russians if we also transform ourselves into a managed society, if we, as somebody put it the other day, train our soldiers to be like the Turks, who have fought so bravely in Korea, if we are willing to change our whole way of life for the sake of so-called "survival," then I think we do exactly that which threatens our survival."
