Soldier Quotes

We should bomb Vietnam back into the stone age.

Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.

Sometime in the future - 25, 50, 75 years hence - what will the situation be like then? By that time the Chinese will have the capability of delivery too.

If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting.

This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.

The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor.

Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven.

It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as we had in the Red Sea Parts, the desert, or in the minds of the men we converted to our creed.

All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!

The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.

The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.

Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.

Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.

Isn't it true that the fault of birth rests somewhat on the child? I believe it's we who led our parents on to bear us, and it's our unborn children who make our flesh itch.

To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.

To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.

I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself.

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.

Air power is like poker. A second-best hand is like none at all - it will cost you dough and win you nothing.

The province was surrounded by powerful tribes of Indians who watched the white settlers with an eager hostility, and seized every occasion to molest them by secret inroad, and often by open assault.

The Army damages itself when it doesn't live up to its own values.

We ought instead of retreating should follow up the enemy and take Richmond. And in full view of all responsible for such declaration, I say to you all, such an order can only be prompted by cowardice or treason.

War is horrible because it strangles youth.

Oh, go in anywhere Colonel, go in anywhere. You'll find lovely fighting all along the line.

I, Philip Kearny, an old soldier, enter my solemn protest against this order for retreat.

I can make men follow me to hell.

The Rebel bullet that can kill me has not yet been molded.

We need to fix this. It hasn't been done yet because there's still a reluctance to admit that there was even a problem - anywhere above seven rogue soldiers who got out of control on the night shift.

They transfer the prison, and all of a sudden all this money cuts loose, all these people cut loose.

There was a military police brigade with over 3,400 soldiers getting ready to go home because their mission - prisoner-of-war operations - was finished.