A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
Napoleon Bonaparte

A true woman always loves a real soldier.
Belle Boyd

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

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.
Ulysses S. Grant

And like the old soldier in that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the sight to see that duty.
Douglas MacArthur

And Oliver North was really a good soldier, up to the last moment, shoving memos into the shredder and defending the policy to the end.
Bobby Ray Inman

And the program was developed in large part by behavioral scientists who were working with the military, who do everything they possibly can to measure a soldier's stress levels to see how they're doing physically and emotionally, as they go through this program.
Jane Mayer

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
Otto von Bismarck

As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.
Lester B. Pearson

Being a soldier, fighting for this country, is neither Republican nor Democrat.
Max Cleland

But to the fighting soldier that phase of the war is behind. It was left behind after his first battle. His blood is up. He is fighting for his life, and killing now for him is as much a profession as writing is for me.
Ernie Pyle

Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
Karl Kraus

Consideration of any kind are a crime against the German people and the soldier at the front.
Wilhelm Keitel

Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.
Allan Massie

Doolittle looked just like a little toy soldier the first time I ever saw him.
Loretta Lynn

During 65 years, I have walked the path of duty and discipline... And today, looking back at that long path of service, my soldier's heart stirs and murmurs from deep within: Thank you. Thank you, my homeland.
Augusto Pinochet

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
Thomas Jefferson

Every lover is a soldier.
Ovid

Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier.
William Petty

Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.
Bernard Law Montgomery