| "I regard myself as a soldier, though a soldier of peace." »Mahatma Gandhi |
| "The first who was king was a fortunate soldier Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire |
| "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 |
| "There exist only three beings worthy of respect the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create." »Charles Baudelaire |
| "He altered the image of the Jew from that of rabbi, merchant, wanderer, to that of scientist, farmer and soldier." »Shimon Peres |
| "When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the pope. 'Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso." »Pablo Picasso |
| "A preacher must be both soldier and shepherd. He must nourish, defend, and teach he must have teeth in his mouth, and be able to bite and fight." »Martin Luther |
| "Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to the end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire." »Ernest Hemingway |
| "The Greeks by their laws, and the Romans by the spirit of their people, took care to put into the hands of their rulers no such engine of oppression as a standing army. Their system was to make every man a soldier, and oblige him to repair to the standard of his country whenever that was reared. This made them invincible and the same remedy will make us so." »Thomas Jefferson |
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