Dead Soldiers Quotes:

Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives.

- Siegfried Sassoon

source: Counter-Attack (1918) "Dreamers"

topic: Home, Gun, Thinking, Dead Soldiers, Wounded Soldier

I have one sentiment for soldiers living and dead: cheers for the living; tears for the dead.

- Robert Green Ingersoll

source: Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.3100, Library of Alexandria

topic: Memorial Day, Cheer, Soldier, Memorial Day Heroes, Memorial Day Messages

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

- Plato

topic: Plato, War, Ends, Soldiers At War, Just War

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

- George Santayana

topic: Military, War, Philosophical, Soldiers At War, Just War

Military cemeteries around the world are packed with brainwashed dead soldiers who were convinced God was on their side. America prays for God to destroy our enemies. Our enemies pray for God to destroy us. Somebody's gonna be disappointed! Somebody's wasting their time! Could it be.. everyone?

- George Carlin

topic: Military, America, Soldier, Dead Soldiers, Brainwashed

I mean the only thing us dead soldiers got in common is that none of us was good enough or lucky enough to survive the fight. We're a host of failures.

- Steven Erikson

topic: Mean, Fighting, Soldier, Dead Soldiers

Conservatives want live babies so they can train them to be dead soldiers.

- George Carlin

topic: Funny, Sarcastic, Witty, Dead Soldiers, Sanctity Of Life

Once you leave the womb, conservatives don't care about you until you reach military age. Then you're just what they're looking for. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers.

- George Carlin

source: George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

topic: Baby, Military, Stupid, Dead Soldiers

I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them, And the white skeletons of young men-I saw them; I saw the debris and debris of all the dead soldiers of the war; But I saw they were not as was thought; They themselves were fully at rest-they suffer'd not; The living remain'd and suffer'd-the mother suffer'd, And the wife and the child, and the musing comrade suffer'd, And the armies that remain'd suffer'd.

- Walt Whitman

topic: Mother, Veterans Day, Children, Musings, Dead Soldiers

Similarly, payments for a dead soldier amount to only $500,000, which is far less than standard estimates of the lifetime economic cost of a death. This statistical value of a life in the US amounts to circa $6.5 million.

- Joseph Stiglitz

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Soldier, Cost, Lifetime, Dead Soldiers

Today, whether it is a student who holds a sit-in to get the army recruiters off his campus, or the mother of a dead soldier who refuses to leave the front gate of the president's ranch, we continue to be saved by brave people who risk ridicule and rejection but end up turning huge tides of public opinion in the direction of righteousness. We owe them enormous debts of gratitude. It is not easy to stand up for what is right, especially when everyone else is afraid to leave the comfortable path of conformity.

- Michael Moore

topic: Mother, Gratitude, Army, Dead Soldiers, Debt Of Gratitude