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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." »Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Farewell address, quoted on "We Interrupt This Broadcast" CD-ROM
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"I regard myself as a soldier, though a soldier of peace." »Mahatma Gandhi
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"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
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"The first who was king was a fortunate soldier Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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"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
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"He altered the image of the Jew from that of rabbi, merchant, wanderer, to that of scientist, farmer and soldier." »Shimon Peres
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"Why, you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together- what do you get? The sum of all fears." »Winston Churchill, The Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy
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"Why you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, and th most audacious soldier, put them at a table together-and what do you get? The sum of their fears." »Winston Churchill
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"There exist only three beings worthy of respect the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create." »Charles Baudelaire
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"There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create." »Charles Baudelaire, Mon Coeur Mis a Nu, XXII
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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, September 2, 2004, The Republican National Convention, N.Y.
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"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
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"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"It is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag who gives that protester the freedom to abuse and burn that flag." »Zell Miller
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"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, Conversation with Gen. Longstreet
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"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
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"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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"Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that's been our unifying cry, More light. Sunlight. Torchlight. Candlight. Neon, incandescent lights that banish the darkness from our caves to illuminate our roads, the insides of our refrigerators. Big floods for the night games at Soldier's field. Little tiny flashlights for those books we read under the covers when we're supposed to be asleep. Light is more than watts and footcandles. Light is metaphor. Light is knowledge, light is life, light is light." »Andrew Schneider
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