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Soldiers Quotes

The closest thing is in 1917, they say, the great pandemic. It certainly was a terrible thing where they lost anywhere from 50 to 100 million people. Probably ended the Second World War. All the soldiers were sick.

– Donald Trump

The Spanish Flu was 1918-20 and Second World War didn’t begin till 1939.

Tony Blair is not just the worst prime minister we’ve ever had, but by far the worst prime minister we’ve ever had. It makes my blood boil to think of the British soldiers who’ve died for that little liar.

– George MacDonald Fraser

Whenever I look at pictures of horrific things that soldiers do or that have been done to soldiers I always feel sorry for everybody involved because politics throws them into these horrific situations where really it’s just 18-year-old kids.

– Gideon Raff

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

– H. L. Mencken

Ministers regularly meet soldiers that have returned from operational tours to hear about their experiences, including those who have recovered from their injuries.

– Geoff Hoon

It wasn’t a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers.

– Hanoi Hannah

The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.

– Huey Newton

A long time ago this land belonged to our fathers, but when I go up to the river I see camps of soldiers on its banks. These soldiers cut down my timber, they kill my buffalo and when I see that, my heart feels like bursting.

– Satanta

Kiowa chief’s speech at Medicine Lodge, Kansas, 1867. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West, by Dee Brown. Chapter 11.

I was most impressed with the professionalism of our soldiers stationed there, and I am now more confident than ever that that the operations at Guantanamo are being conducted in a humane and necessary manner.

– Jim Ryun

Trauma is not the sole province of victims. If that were true, soldiers returning from Afghanistan wouldn’t suffer from PTSD.

– Jane Leavy

Of course, I think it is legitimate for the Commander-in-Chief to be concerned for the safety of his soldiers.

– John Cusack

I have decorated soldiers for heroism before, and it was always such an honor to do it.

– Jack Keane

I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.

– Jorge Luis Borges

Before Little Bighorn, Sitting Bull had dream of soldiers falling from the sky.

– John Trudell

Bin Laden, who was in his country, attacked and damaged our Pentagon, and killed our soldiers right out here at the Pentagon. But his pentagon no longer exists. It is rubble.

– Jeff Sessions

I know what soldiers or their families go through.

– Anushka Sharma

The worst… was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.

– Iris Chang

The majority of soldiers and officers of the Soviet Army and the allied armies treated the local population humanely.

– Antony Beevor

U.S. soldiers, with whom I now have more than a passing acquaintance, joke that they track my movements in order to know where they will be deployed next.

– Christiane Amanpour

The soldiers that didn’t come back were the heroes. It’s a roll of the dice. If a bullet has your name on it, you’re a hero. If you hear a bullet go by, you’re a survivor.

– Bob Feller

Being about to land on the soil of North Carolina, the general commanding desires his soldiers to remember that they are here to support the Constitution and the laws, to put down rebellion, and to protect the persons and property of the loyal and peaceable citizens of the State.

– Ambrose Burnside

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

– Charles Spurgeon

You know, we’ve got to be responsible about our debt. We don’t want the United States to ever be a dead beat, and not be able to pay its bills, either to our soldiers who are fighting or to Social Security recipients.

– Claire McCaskill

If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces, that is eventually going to have an effect on soldiers and troops who are actually going to believe that and it’s wrong. It’s just wrong.

– Al Franken

The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.

– Buffalo Bill

The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.

– Carl von Clausewitz

In my 20 years as a photographer, covering conflicts from Bosnia to Gaza to Iraq to Afghanistan, injured civilians and soldiers have passed through my life many times.

– Anja Niedringhaus

We were ordered out to quell an uprising of the Indians, and were out for several days, had numerous skirmishes during which six of the soldiers were killed and several severely wounded.

– Calamity Jane

I sort of became infatuated with soldiers. I got to know some of them and got a little perturbed with Hollywood making a spectacle out of them and making them look like they have screwed up somehow.

– Channing Tatum

I’ve had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters from soldiers saying they were listening to these songs, like Island of no return.

– Billy Bragg

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