Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
Apart from the fact that any hardy exercise conduces much to the training and formation of a soldier, pig-sticking tends to give a man what is called a 'stalker's eye,' but which, par excellence, is the soldier's eye.
That was one thing that we learned, that the Klan was making an active recruitment pitch to the armed forces - not just in Colorado Springs, but in other parts of the country as well. With trained military personnel who share that ideology, you know you have a valuable soldier at your disposal.
In the '80s, before I was born, my dad played in the old Soviet Top League in our home country of Armenia. He was a small but very quick striker. 'Soviet Soldier' magazine actually honoured him with its 'Knight of Attack' award in 1984.
When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.
Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and if you let that bother you, you're not a good soldier.
The weapon of the advocate is the sword of the soldier, not the dagger of the assassin.
If every soldier is authorized to make one mistake, then we lose the war.
Like the old soldier of the 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 light to see that duty. Goodbye.
Coming up through the ranks of any calling can be rough, but that battered soul who survives the early years of courting the comic muse comes close to knowing what only the soldier knows: What combat is like.
The glory of the old Irish nation, which in our hour will grow young and strong again. Should we fail, the country will not be worth more than it is now. The sword of famine is less sparing than the bayonet of the soldier.
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.
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.
I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.
My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend.
You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.
The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat?
The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.
