When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got to be perfectly at home in men’s clothes. – Calamity Jane
I found my first novel difficult. I don’t want to make it sound like it’s any more difficult than driving a cab or going to any other job, but there are so many opportunities for self-doubt, that you just kind of need to soldier on. – Anthony Doerr
I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war. – Geraldine Brooks
Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for. – Norman Schwarzkopf
I could not have the honour of being a German soldier because of my imprisonment in the First World War. And in this world war the Fuehrer refuses to allow me to serve as a soldier. – Fritz Sauckel
Any child soldier has to go through a lot of love, care and understanding to become normal. – Emmanuel Jal
A common soldier will make an empire, but he will eventually meet his fate and be condemned to the Great Rock. – Nostradamus
A warrior is free to be a hero and pull off daring do and the soldier is irresponsible if he does it. – C. J. Cherryh
Not much over รด?1,000 a month for the private soldier on operations is hardly an impressive figure. – Mike Jackson
When I did A Soldier’s Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything! – Denzel Washington
I had repeatedly made written requests to the Fuehrer that I might be allowed to join the Wehrmacht as an ordinary soldier. He refused to give me this permission. – Fritz Sauckel
What I find interesting about Captain Action is that he is more an adventurer and spy than he is a soldier. – Chris Roberson
The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. – Douglas MacArthur
I’ve been a soldier too long to refuse to entertain any request from a potential commander in chief. – Michael T. Flynn
I appeal to you as a soldier to spare me the humiliation of seeing my regiment march to meet the enemy and I not share its dangers. – George Armstrong Custer
On the battlefield, the military pledges to leave no soldier behind. As a nation, let it be our pledge that when they return home, we leave no veteran behind. – Dan Lipinski
I’m very interested in soldier recovery projects and in Bradley Manning’s story, the army intelligence officer who’s being held as a detainee and is going to trial for crimes of treason. – Eion Bailey
It takes a real soldier to stay in the music industry and live off the things that have been put before me and be able to survive all this time because it has not been easy. – Chubby Checker
The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue. – Napoleon Bonaparte
My mother said to me, ‘If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.’ Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso. – Pablo Picasso
A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers. – Norman Schwarzkopf
