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And now, like the old soldier of that 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. Good-bye.

General Douglas MacArthur

The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

General Douglas MacArthur

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

Thomas Jefferson

War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.

Niccolo Machiavelli

A coward dies a thousand deaths... a soldier dies but once.

Tupac Shakur

I respect every soldier, from every country, who serves beside us in the hard work of history. America is grateful, and America will not forget.

George W. Bush

These guys have earned this type of scholarship. It's not for just any soldier that comes back from Iraq, ... who just need a little help getting there.

Mike Conklin

To be a good soldier, you must love the army. To be a good commander, you must be willing to order the death of the thing you love.

Robert E. Lee

I've always enjoyed being a soldier. I've always enjoyed serving my country. I take great pride with that.

Scott Mckenzie

Libby is tripped up over the investigation, not over the crime, and I think that is significant, ... the impression you get is he was a good foot soldier for many years, but he stepped over the boundary in his job, and no one is above the law.

Jack Kingston

It hurts. It hurts whenever one of our heroes comes home, but not alive. This is the first one (soldier) from the Raymondville area.

Felix Rodriguez

This will help the soldier to be able to rely on reach-back consolidated IT locations to get to their CSS [Combat Service Support] software applications.

Kevin Carroll

Dick Poplar plays a special part in my life ... Some folks say he was just a cook. Well, that is one of the most depressing things people say about the war. Because for every soldier that's in the field, there are 10 soldiers supporting them.

Robert Harrison

Everybody needs to be made aware that we have our heroes they serve from each and every community here in south Texas as well as throughout the U.S. and we pray that another soldier just doesn't die.

Felix Rodriguez

While the Army places trust in the integrity of its Soldiers and leaders, if a Soldier has a questionable case regarding tattoos, he or she should seek the advice of the local commander through the chain of command.

Hank Minitrez

This conflict is one thing I've been waiting for. I'm well and strong and young - young enough to go to the front. If I can't be a soldier, I'll help soldiers.

Clara Barton

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

ABRUPT, adj. Sudden, without ceremony, like the arrival of a cannon- shot and the departure of the soldier whose interests are most affected by it. Dr. Samuel Johnson beautifully said of another author's ideas that they were 'concatenated without abruption.'

Ambrose Bierce

There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.

Charles Baudelaire

MISERICORDE, n. A dagger which in mediaeval warfare was used by the foot soldier to remind an unhorsed knight that he was mortal.

Ambrose Bierce

We will not see it as a complete withdrawal should a single Israeli soldier remain at the crossing points.

Nafez Azzam

Tony and his soldier were scheming on dumping a bunch of murders on the 2 NYPD detectives.

Raymond Oechsle

This is one of the parts that was written into the law. We actually worked with (retired Sen.) Ben Nighthorse Campbell on this. The government cannot just kill a soldier on a piece of paper without physical evidence.

Pat Taylor

We knew he was going to be a faithful soldier for his Christ.

John Vance

He made a dang good soldier. He was so proud to serve his country.

Terry Hess

It's like having our kids home. Our first soldier mentioned that it was really neat to have someone in an unfamiliar place that he could call whenever he needed something. It's kind of like being a second parent and friend. There is no obligation on their part. They can take or leave us.

Susie Gray

No army soldier has come here to help us, ... First we lost people in quake, and now we will die because of cold and hunger.

Ahmed Khan

The U.S. Army burned 12 times more fuel per soldier in Iraq than it did in France in 1944 -- nine gallons of fuel per soldier per day in 2004. Another problem is that truck fuel tankers are easy to identify and destroy by enemy guerrillas.

Carlton Meyer

People think he couldn't act because he played very similar roles, either as a soldier or as a cowboy. But he was a very strong actor — within a narrow range.

James Olson

I don't think I could be a foot soldier. I don't know if I could take orders too good. I'm a little lazy.

Benicio Del Toro

For him to come into town and give a lecture about leadership is an ultimate insult to our intelligence - that's why we're protesting. He's supposed to be a soldier himself, and he sold out our own troops and sent them needlessly into combat. That's horrendous and egregious.

Mike Glick

The attack killed a soldier and injured three others, some houses were also damaged and electric supply was also cut off to the residential quarters.

Abdul Samad Lasi

For example, there was the day he gave me the job of figuring out how many jellybeans it would take to fill up Soldier Field.

Neal Stephenson

I bet there are people who don't even know what happened to her arm because she is not one to feel sorry for herself. She is a warrior and a soldier.

Marcedes Walker

Our presence here is to be low-key, especially inside the funeral home. This is not about us. This is not a police operation. It's a funeral for a fallen soldier.

Lt. Don Whitehead

They want to destroy a soldier but I will not permit it.

Ollanta Humala

He was a soldier for peace.

Chuck Fager

RECRUIT, n. A person distinguishable from a civilian by his uniform and from a soldier by his gait. Fresh from the farm or factory or street, His marching, in pursuit or in retreat, Were an impressive martial spectacle Except for two impediments -- his feet. Thompson Johnson.

Ambrose Bierce

Our son is not a danger to anyone. He was dabbling into something he shouldn't have been ... but all the things Brian has, he has because he was preparing to become a good soldier.

Thomas Sweeney

The death of this British soldier in Iraq deeply saddens me. All our thoughts and sympathies are with the family at this very difficult time.

John Reid

It's important for people to know what to expect, but any situation you go into is not going to be the perfect environment. The line between soldier and emergency worker is blurred because they all could respond to a national crisis.

Jamie Ruffing

Get with a soldier. They'll take you down to the school.

Aaron Johnson

He was a soldier, a Marine...

Tyrese Gibson

The soldier does not wish to appear a coward, disloyal, or un-American. The situation has been so defined that he can see himself as patriotic, courageous, and manly only through compliance.

Stanley Milgram

It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier.

Ian McKellen

From the time they brought Oliver back into the country, he was never alone, there was always a soldier with him, ... He was never by himself, the Army really took care of their own.

David Larson

The Bravo Battery was the only unit without any family problems or soldier problems raised to the brigade level.

Captain Corey Wise

Conduct unbecoming a soldier.

Paul Boyce

He's just a soldier doing his job like any other person.

Sami Hassoun

As a former soldier, I can't believe that a secretary of defense would be so dismissive of requests for protective gear by our people in uniform.

Frank Lautenberg

People have the right to bury their family members in peace. I find it repugnant that anybody would protest the funeral of a soldier.

Sen. Jean Schodorf

I am a better soldier than a student.

Priscilla Davis

One of the key items we will have is a flag that flew over a polling booth in Iraq that was donated by a soldier.

Don Beck

Ben Battle was a soldier bold, / And used to war's alarms: / But a cannon-ball took off his legs, / So he laid down his arms.

Thomas Hood

He's the proverbial good soldier. Throughout his career he's done things he's been asked to do by senior leaders in the church.

James Post

We heard a soldier from Ashland, Ky., was killed, so I imagine we'll be back soon.

Margie Phelps

It takes a real soldier to stay in the music industry and live off the things that have been put before me and be able to survive all this time because it has not been easy.

Chubby Checker

Pike was a very dedicated soldier on a mission for his young country and filled with patriotism.

Deborah Espinosa

[But Privacy Council CEO Larry Ponemon took a different tack in a conference call with reporters.] I feel like the lone soldier attacking the hill, ... We don't see Passport as a large privacy issue here. Quite frankly, folks, Passport itself is not creating the kinds of privacy problems that are being advanced by EPIC (Electronic Privacy Information Center) and others.

Larry Ponemon

I am ready for any eventuality. As a disciplined soldier of the party, I have no hesitation to quit if the party high command desires. It is for the party president (Sonia Gandhi) to decide.

Dharam Singh

That's unacceptable. Every soldier who puts his life on the line deserves the best tools.

Nicole Philbin

His athletic skills led him to become a combat soldier. He wanted to be a combat soldier and he knew he would be good at it.

Steve Leibowitz

Satan thought he won that day because he took a devout Christian man off this Earth. I feel that God turned it around to glorify him, and in God's soldier taken off this Earth he's created an army.

Dawn Prendes

He got out and first fired in the air, before then firing into the crowd. Two people were killed and four injured. It is very unfortunate, but the situation is now calm and we are hunting for that soldier.

Kale Kayihura

The weapon of the advocate is the sword of the soldier, not the dagger of the assassin.

Alexander Cockburn

The U.N. also urges both parties to the conflict to unequivocally hold to account any soldier found to have sexually abused women or girls.

Matthew Kahane

He was a soldier for this country his whole life. This is long overdue.

Russell Hawkins

It is a huge morale booster for the soldier and his family.

Keira Clark

We will not regard the withdrawal as complete if one single soldier will remains at the crossing.

Nafez Azzam

Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier.

William Petty

The soldier comes in, buys a nice car, and six months later he gets shipped off and all he has to do is hand me a dime. It's a very, very customer oriented program.

Susie Williams

In should be the duty of every soldier to reflect on the experiences of the past, in the endeavor to discover improvements, in his particular sphere of action, which are practicable in the immediate future.

B. H. Liddell Hart

She's a soldier. She's just: 'Here's the task, now let's do it.' It was the same way with her treatment.

Tom Griffith

Everyone you talk to in his unit say that he was an excellent soldier and he was also very well liked among his comrades, so I get comfort knowing he had two families, us back here on the home front and also the soldiers.

Dwight Adams

The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.

Thomas J. Jackson

He was a soldier of justice, which is indispensable to our freedom, stability and peace.

Terry Davis

It's similar to that kind of song, very pro-soldier, 'anti-enemy,' so to speak. Pretty powerful worlds.

Chris Curtice

Getting paid as a soldier on active duty status is more than a state employee earns.

Lt. Veronica Saffo

He went to his chain of command. He questioned some of the interrogation techniques, and he was told as a soldier he was to follow orders and that intelligence wants additional information.

Paul Bergrin

To be a good penalty killer, you've got to have some heart, too, and he's got that. He's a foot soldier. He takes a lot of pride in not giving up goals. He loves penalty killing. That just tells you what kind of player he is and what kind of kid he is.

Tom Serratore

[Commanders] just see the soldier and maybe the family, but chaplains have this ability to take a more holistic approach to the organization and the soldier. Chaplains have the big picture.

Morton Ender

There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either.

Jim Callaghan

I served because I wanted to. I was proud to be a soldier.

Ray Baumbach

Toughest person I've ever met in my life my hero, my soldier.

Jim Kelly

No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or an unmanned airplane.

Richard Perle

My husband died doing what he loved most, flying, ... I'm proud of my husband. He was an extraordinary man, husband and soldier.

Patrick Stewart

A natural and brilliant soldier, Meyer was destined to become Nazi Germany's youngest general at the age of 34 and to be branded as a war criminal in 1945.

Michael Reynolds

It's stuff you've got to do when you are a soldier. I just hope the next year goes fast.

David Gaines

I'd say I've probably told her a thousand times how much I love her since I got back, and held her and kissed her. It's just a sense of duty, I mean, as a soldier, that's what you do. You have to serve your country first. These people needed help and that was the biggest thing.

David Buckner

The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian.

William Gurnall

We have a postcard that shows a picture of the Soldier Service Center. The city donated the land and the federal government built it for $37,000.

Margaret Johnson

He was a soldier in the Taliban, he did it for religious reasons, he did it as a Muslim, and history overcame him.

James Brosnahan

We see the last soldier left Gaza. Our mission is completed.

Aviv Kochavi

Soldier in the Shadows. Unfortunately, it caused a little bit of a scare, but the program worked the way it was intended to.

Chris Dancy

A soldier may be a refugee if he objects to a war which violates fundamental human norms.

Jeffry House

It doesn't surprise me that he's back. It doesn't matter if he's hurting. He sucks it up. He's a soldier.

Jason Ferguson

This soldier, this private came up and he saw my ring. He saw it and he grabbed my hand. That's when I let him take it.

Mario Tonelli

I'm a lover and a fighter. That's what's so engaging. She is the most balanced person on that ship. She has a loving marriage (to Wash, the pilot of spaceship Serenity) and a job she embraces every morning. She likes being a soldier. She's good at it.

Gina Torres

My husband died doing what he loved most, flying. I'm proud of my husband. He was an extraordinary man, husband and soldier.

Roberta Stewart

Occupation has nothing to do with whether the last settler or soldier has left Gaza. It has to do with control, and Israel still controls the Gaza Strip.

Michael Tarazi

We have only one U.N. soldier for every 250 square kilometers of territory.

Thierry Provendier

With each soldier that does not come home, there's a family that suffers the most.

Jack Kingston

I would not want anyone killed on my behalf whether it is someone that was holding me or most certainly not a British soldier. I don't want anybody else to pay with their life for mine.

Jan Benvie

Too often we forget that when a soldier gives the ultimate sacrifice, there's a family back home who is suffering, ... This memorial should mean a lot not only for the veterans but also those they left behind. This is a great symbol of community pride.

Dr. Larry Roberts

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep. (Elegies).

Sextus Propertius

All in all, I like the energy that we gave in the second half. Our squad is depleted with injuries but we had to soldier on and asked players who are on the fringe to step up and play and they didn't do too bad.

Andrew Price

The first and last essential of an efficient soldier is character; without it he will not long endure the perils of modern war.

Lord Moran

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Glen has been a tremendous force in the success of this organization as well as a tireless servant for this community. A true soldier!

James Roland

Even an Iraqi soldier participated.

Kelly O'donnell

What Mrs. McCullough says tears at our hearts — and it's felt by almost every family of a deployed soldier. These families have no choice but to suck it up. They love and miss their soldiers, and it's hard on them — especially the kids.

Peter Duffy

Money is the sovereign queen of all delights - for her, the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights.

Richard Barnfield

The soldier who tortures can now simply state that he or she was following orders.

Jennifer Harbury

While a lot of African Americans and Latinos may have negative perceptions about the military, they can still identify with the strength of the soldier.

Joseph Anthony

Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.

Bernard Law Montgomery

He was in the military and so was his son. He has seen it from both sides, as a soldier and as a family member of a soldier.

Lisa Reading

The professors laugh at themselves, they laugh at life; they long ago abjured the bitch-goddess Success, and the best of them will fight for his scholastic ideals with a courage and persistence that would shame a soldier. The professor is not afraid of words like truth; in fact he is not afraid of words at all.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

Firing a bow requires concentration, skill and focus; all traits that help make a good soldier. The range gives the soldiers something to look forward to.

Lt. Colmarc Hutson

It's a different song when everything's wrong, when you're feeling infernally mortal; when it's ten against one, and hope there is none, buck up, little soldier, and chortle.

Robert Service

It's been really incredible to know that you have so many people that back you and care about what you're doing. Just knowing that you helped somebody and that you really made a difference is great. To talk to a soldier who thanks us for sending a phone card is wonderful.

Brittany Bergquist

Be sure to climb to the top floor in the fort's northwest corner, where narrow stairs lead up into one of the fort's tiny lookout posts. You'll see the Richelieu as a French soldier of long ago looked for the approach of an enemy.

Howard Coffin

I think I have been a good soldier, ... So you can imagine my shock on May 13 when the only base in my state, which happens to be 10 minutes from my house, was on the list.

Rob Simmons

You're going to see it with reintegration as well. Just because we recover a Soldier, it doesn't stop there; when that Soldier comes home and goes through his rear detachment the personnel recovery mechanism is still doing a bunch of things to help reintegrate that Soldier, ... To make sure that he's taken care of.

John Horton

DRAGOON, n. A soldier who combines dash and steadiness in so equal measure that he makes his advances on foot and his retreats on horseback.

Ambrose Bierce

It's amazing to be here as a soldier and as a civilian as well. I just hope it lifts the spirits of every soldier out there. It's a great thing to win a medal for your country.

Shauna Rohbock

I honestly believe the golf course, from the back tees, is too much at our time in life. I'm sure there will be some embarrassing moments, but we shall soldier on.

Tony Jacklin

There's no way you can justify somebody holding up a sign saying things like, 'Pray for more dead soldiers,' at the funeral of a dead soldier.

Bob Swanson

That soldier said: 'There are some things going on here that I can't live with'.

Mark Kimmitt

Being a firefighter is as close as you can get to being a modern-day soldier in your home country.

Tom Dawson

We do not consider the withdrawal complete if one Israeli soldier remains in Gaza, especially with regard to the border crossings. Israel is suggesting moving the goods crossing to another position. We do not consider the withdrawal complete if this happens.

Nafez Azzam

[President Bush was quoted as saying to Mr. Foley in the Wall Street Journal,] Foley, I know this is tough on you buddy, ... I know you're a good friend and a good soldier. Just help me out on this one.

Mark Foley

I saw a soldier cradling a baby and a mother with a baby near the door suddenly just being wrenched into the darkness.

Suzanne Mutelo

At an early age Jesse often said he wanted to be a soldier, and before long he was one. He was there with his military brotherhood, fighting terrorism there so we wouldn't have to fight it here.

Paula Gonzalez

The mission of the Anglo-Saxon has been largely that of the soldier; but the world is making progress, we are leaving behind the barbarism of war; as civilization advances, it will learn less of war, and concern itself more with the arts of peace, and for these the massive battle-ax must be wrought into tools of finer temper.

Josiah Strong

Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman never gave offence to anyone not even the enemy.

A. J. P. Taylor

[Erdmann argued that, in proclaiming the First Crusade, Pope Urban II was less interested in restoring the rights of Christians to make pilgrimages to the Holy Sepulchre than in unleashing] an ecclesiastical-knightly war upon heathens ... the conceptual change from armed pilgrim to soldier for the faith took place.

Henry Iv

If I were a Roman soldier in the third century, I certainly wouldn't want my name on it. This would not have been a good career move. In fact, it sounds like the kiss of death.

Joe Zias

King Hussein was one of the greatest leaders of the 20th century, a brave soldier who fought for peace, a clever man, warm-hearted and the symbol of good neighbourly relations.

Ezer Weizman

This is an idea project for church youth groups and other civic groups. We want to recognize every soldier. What better way to do it that with flying a flag.

Eugene Wingfield

It's very sad, but he was?and his mom really wants everyone to know?a soldier, and he loved what he did.

Evelyn Fox

Fight ever on: this earthly stuff if used God's way will be enough. Face to the firing line o friend fight out life's battle to the end. One soldier, when the fight was red, threw down his broken sword and fled. Another snatched it, won the day, with what his comrade flung away.

Edwin Markham