100+ American Soldier Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

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topic: Military, Enemy, Mets, Military History, Military Soldier

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

- Richard Grenier

topic: Strength, Wisdom, Veterans Day, Inspirational Good Night, Military Force

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

- John Stuart Mill

source: "The Contest in America", Fraser's Magazine, February 1862.

topic: War, Patriotic, Thinking, Soldiers At War, Ugly Things

**** the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!

- David Farragut

source: At the battle of Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 ('torpedoes' were mines). Capt. A. T. Mahan 'Admiral Farragut' (1892) ch. 10

topic: War, Civil War, Speed, Military History, Military Soldier

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Inspirational Football, Marathon Runners

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

- Nathan Hale

source: Before being executed as a spy by the British, 22 September 1776, in Henry Phelps Johnston 'Nathan Hale, 1776' (1914) ch. 7.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Country, Independence Day Patriotic, American Revolution

Among the men who fought on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue.

- Chester W. Nimitz

topic: Military, Men, Common, Military Man, Military Soldier

Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 1, l. 270

topic: Dog, Military, War, Soldiers At War, Havoc

We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are called heroes.

- Robert M. Hutchins

topic: Hero, Army, Soldier, American Soldier

No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.

- George S. Patton

source: Attributed in Patton (motion picture) (1970). This is sometimes said to have been uttered in a speech by Patton to the Sixth Armored Division of the Third Army, 31 May 1944, but documentation is lacking. The following poem appeared in the Bureau of Aeronautics Navy Department News Letter, 1 Jan. 1943: "The greatest duty of a sailor / Is duty from worries and cares, / Not to die for his country, / Make our enemies die for theirs!"

topic: Country, Military, War, Soldiers At War, War Movie

It doesn t require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed it won t be U.S. Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the Senate.

- George McGovern

topic: War, Fighting, Boys, American Soldier

Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!

- William H. Prescott

topic: Memorial Day, Military, War, Military Soldier, Bunkers

There's something about an American soldier you can't explain. They're so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them.

- Marlene Dietrich

topic: Grateful, Soldier, Actresses, So Grateful, American Soldier

No American soldier should be allowed to set foot on Iranian soil, regardless of the criticism we have of the Iranian government.

- Shirin Ebadi

topic: Government, Feet, Soldier, Iranian, American Soldier

Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes! Then fire low!

- Israel Putnam

topic: Eye, Fire, Revolution, Military Soldier, Bunkers

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Military History, Military Soldier

Behind every American soldier, dozens of their countrymen tonight sleep soundly â€” and hundreds more in their shadow abroad will wake up alive and safe.

- Victor Davis Hanson

topic: Sleep, Soldier, Shadow, American Soldier

Do not degrade me in the military uniform I wear for it represents the love I have for my country, and the sacrifices myself and millions of other American soldiers make everyday to protect the freedom we enjoy by living in the United States of America.

- Larry David

topic: Love, Country, Freedom, Military Uniform, American Soldier

Washington is dead! This great man fought against Tyranny; he established the liberty of his country. His memory will always be dear to the French people, as it will be to all free men of the two worlds; and especially to French soldiers, who, like him and the American soldiers, have combated for liberty and equality.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

topic: Country, Memories, Men, Two Worlds, Liberty And Equality

For us to ignore by inaction the slaughter of American civilians and American soldiers, whether in nightclubs or airline terminals, is simply not in the American tradition. Self-defense is not only our right, it is our duty.

- Ronald Reagan

source: Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.288, Simon and Schuster

topic: Self, Soldier, Defense, Civilians, American Soldier

It hit me that an Apache resistance would be a wonderful, you know, it would be a wonderful metaphor for Jewish-American soldiers to be using behind enemy lines against the Nazis because the Apache Indians... were able to fight off for decades both the Spaniards and the Mexicans and the U.S. Cavalry for years because of their - they were great guerrilla fighters. They were great resistance fighters. And one of their ways of winning battles was psychological battles.

- Quentin Tarantino

source: "Pulp And Circumstance: Tarantino Rewrites History Listen". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 27, 2009.

topic: Fighting, Winning, Years, Spaniards, American Soldier

I'm shooting a gangbanger, but as a dignified man. That's pretty much what war photography did: seeing images of soldiers in a dignified way. They might have been killers in Vietnam, but I'm seeing another side of them, and looking at images of the the American soldiers, also the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong - I never saw an enemy.

- Jamel Shabazz

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Photography, War, Men, American Soldier, Viet Cong

An American soldier, Saddam in his sights, has a picture of a naked, buxom woman on his dashboard, an obvious affront to Muslim sensibilities.

- Margo Kingston

topic: Sight, Soldier, Dashboards, American Soldier

Two things are to blame for our predicament, one a corollary of the other. The first reason is that we did not have enough troops in Samarra. The skill and courage of 150 American soldiers prevented chaos, but was never enough to fully secure a city of 120,000 people or maintain the rule of law [...] Second, because of a lack of troops, American military leaders are forced to make a choice between mission objectives and self-preservation.

- Pete Hegseth

topic: Military, Self, Law, American Soldier

Should any American soldier be so base and infamous as to injure any Canadian or Indian in his person or property, I do most earnestly enjoin you to bring him to such severe and exemplary punishment, as the enormity of the crime may require. Should it extend to death itself, it shall not be disproportioned to its guilt, at such a time and in such a cause.

- George Washington

source: George Washington, Jared Sparks (1834). “(v. 9) Containing correspondence from the time of resigning his commission as Commander-in-Chief of the Army, to that of his inauguration as president”, p.90

topic: Punishment, Soldier, Guilt, American Soldier

The word crap is actually another word that's very, very old. It was taken over from 17th century England by the pilgrim fathers and Americans were talking about things being crap in the 17th and 18th centuries. What Sir Thomas Crapper â€“ complete coincidence â€“ does is not invent the flushing toilet, as many, many people believe, but was a great promoter for it. He ran a business marketing other people's products and that's why his name was on them. When the American soldiers came over in the First World War, they all thought it was hilarious that it said 'crapper' on them.

- Lucy Worsley

topic: War, Father, Believe, Flushing, 17th Century

If Afghan soldiers continue to kill American soldiers as is happening these days, it can hardly be assumed that they will stay in Afghanistan in the long term. And what role are they to play? There will not be enough soldiers to ensure the security of the country. But will the US still be permitted to kill terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan with un-manned drones? That could worsen the situation in the neighboring states and they could view Afghanistan as a threat.

- Ahmed Rashid

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Country, Long, Soldier, American Soldier

We know that there were so many Japanese American soldiers in World War II who were fighting in Europe despite the fact that their families, their parents were back home in American prison camps. It's savagely ironic that between themselves and the African-American soldiers, who were also segregated and didn't see the fruition of the work the culminated in the Civil Rights Act until the '60s, that these American heroes and their stories are not well known; and the fact that the 442nd/100th became the most decorated unit in U.S. history.

- Tamlyn Tomita

topic: War, Hero, Home, American Soldier

In Iraq, four American soldiers have been arrested and charged with stealing a million dollars cash. After hearing about it the Fox network announced plans for a new reality show called 'GI Joe Millionaire.'