God of our fathers, who by land and sea have ever lead us to victory, please continue your inspiring guidance in this the greatest of all conflicts. Strengthen my soul so that the weakening instinct of self-preservation, which besets all of us in battle, shall not blind me to my duty to my own manhood, to the glory of my calling, and to my responsibility to my fellow soldiers. Grant to our armed forces that disciplined valor and mutual confidence which insures success in war. Let me not mourn for the men who have died fighting, but rather let me be glad that such heroes have lived. If it be my lot to die, let me do so with courage and honor in a manner which will bring the greatest harm to the enemy, and please, oh Lord, protect and guide those I shall leave behind. Give us the victory, Lord.
General George S. Patton
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Our God and soldiers we alike adore ev'n at the brink of danger; not before: After deliverance, both alike requited, Our God's forgotten, and our soldiers slighted
Francis Quarles
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"Why me?" That is the soldier's first question, asked each morning as the patrols go out and each evening as the night settles around the foxholes.
William Broyles Jr
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How sleep the brave, who sink to rest,
By all their country's wishes blest!
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By fairy hands their knell is rung,
By forms unseen their dirge is sung.
William Collins
Quotes , Source: Ode, written in 1746
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Our God and soldier we alike adore - Just at the brink of ruin not before - The danger past, both are alike requited; God is forgotten and the soldier slighted
Robert Maynard Hutchins
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A soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers, There was a lack of woman's nursing, there was dearth of woman's tears; But a comrade stood beside him, while his lifeblood ebbed away
Caroline Norton
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Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where other civilizations give a satisfactory outlet to only one temperamental type, be he mystic or soldier, businessman or artist, a civilization in which there are many standards offers a possibility of satisfactory adjustment to individuals of many different temperamental types, of diverse gifts, and varying interests.
Margaret Mead
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An Austrian army awfully arrayed.
Unattributed Author
Quotes , Source: poet arranged with "apt alliteration's artful aid", first appeared in "The Trifler", May 7, 1817, pr
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The king of France with twenty thousand men
Went up the hill, and then came down again:
The king of Spain with twenty thousand more
Climbed the same hill the French had climbed before.
Unattributed Author
Quotes , Source: from Sloane Manuscript 1489, written time of Charles I
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A thousand leagues of ocean, a company of kings,
You came across the watching world to show how heroes die.
When the splendour of your story
Builds the halo of its glory,
'Twill belt the earth like Saturn's rings
And diadem the sky.
Unattributed Author
Quotes , Source: "M.R.C.S.", in "Anzac", on Colonial Soldiers, 1919
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Terrible he rode alone,
With his yemen sword for aid;
Ornament it carried none
But the notches on the blade.
Unattributed Author
Quotes , Source: The Death Feud--An Arab War Song (st. 14), in "Tait's Edinburgh Magazine", July, 1850, translation s
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O Dormer, how can I behold thy fate,
And not the wonders of thy youth relate;
How can I see the gay, the brave, the young,
Fall in the cloud of war, and lie unsung!
In joys of conquest he resigns his breath,
And, filled with England's glory, smiles in death.
Joseph Addison
Quotes , Source: Campaign--To Philip Dormer
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"I cannot bear it!" said the pewter soldier. "I have shed pewter
tears! It is too melancholy! Rather let me go to the wars and
lose arms and legs! It would at least be a change. I cannot
bear it longer! Now, I know what it is to have a visit from
one's old thoughts, with what they may bring with them! I have
had a visit from mine, and you may be sure it is no pleasant
thing in the end; I was at last about to jump down from the
drawers."
Hans Christian Andersen
Quotes , Source: The Old House
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God and a soldier all people adore
In time of war, but not before;
And when war is over and all things are righted,
God is neglected and an old soldier slighted.
Anonymous
Quotes , Source: lines chalked on a sentry-bos on Europa Guard
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O little Force that in your agony
Stood fast while England girt her armour on,
Held high our honour in your wounded hands,
Carried our honour safe with bleeding feet--
We have no glory great enough for you,
The very soul of Britain keeps your day.
Anonymous
Quotes , Source: published in a London newspaper, 1917
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Each year his mighty armies marched forth in gallant show,
Their enemies were targets, their bullets they were tow.
Pierre Jean de Beranger
Quotes , Source: Le Roi d'Yvetor, (translation by Thackeray "The King of Brentford")
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And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell him, Let not him
that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it
off.
Bible
Quotes , Source: I Kings (ch. XX, v. 11)
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When the action was over and they were returning with joy, they
recognized Nicanor, lying dead, in full armor.
Bible
Quotes , Source: II Maccabees (ch. XV, v. 28)
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Howbeit he refused to turn aside: wherefore Abner with the
hinder end of the spear smote him under the fifth rib, that the
spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in
the same place: and it came to pass, that as many as came to the
place when Asahel fell down and died stood still.
Bible
Quotes , Source: II Samuel (ch. II, v. 23)
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And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he
went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.
Bible
Quotes , Source: Judges (ch. XV, v. 8)
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The English Infantry is the most formidable in Europe, but
fortunately there is not much of it.
[Fr., L'infanterie anglaise est la plus redoubtable de l"Europe;
heureusement, il n'y en a pas beaucoup.]
Thomas Robert duc d'Isly Bugeaud
Quotes , Source: Oeuvres Militaires, collected by Weil
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You led our sons across the haunted flood,
Into the Canaan of their high desire--
No milk and honey there, but tears and blood
Flowed where the hosts of evil trod in fire,
And left a worse than desert where they passed.
Amelia Josephine Burr
Quotes , Source: To General Pershing
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