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“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 Quotes |
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“Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives”
Siegfried Sassoon Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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“If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one would remain in the ranks”
Frederick The Great Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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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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“See! There is Jackson standing like a stone wall.”
Bernard Elliott Bee Quotes Source: Battle of Manassas (Bull Run)
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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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“Ay me! what perils do environ
The man that meddles with cold iron!”
Samuel Butler (1) Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto III, l. 1)
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