QUOTES ABOUT MILITARY SERVICE

“The soldier’s heart, the soldier’s spirit, the soldier’s soul are everything. Unless the soldier’s soul sustains him, he cannot be relied upon and will fail himself and his commander and his country in the end.” – General David Petraeus

“The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.” – General Douglas MacArthur

“A true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.” – G.K. Chesterton

“It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us the freedom to demonstrate. It is the soldier, who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the flag.” – Father Dennis Edward O’Brien

“Soldiers are not trained to sacrifice, but to win.” – General Norman Schwarzkopf

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” – Edmund Burke

“War is hell.” – General William Tecumseh Sherman

“Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they have been given.” – Orson Scott Card

“We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us.” – Winston Churchill

“The military might of a country represents its national strength. Only when it builds up its military might in every way can it develop into a thriving country.” – Kim Jong-Un

“Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.” – General Douglas MacArthur

“You don’t know what the future holds, but you know who holds the future.” – Unknown

“Soldiering is the one occupation which the enemy never improves.” – General William Tecumseh Sherman PARENTS DISAPPROVE OF RELATIONSHIP QUOTES

“Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

“War does not determine who is right – only who is left.” – Bertrand Russell

“Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.” – Michel de Montaigne

“Bravery is not the absence of fear, but the action in the face of fear.” – John McCain

“The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.” – Thucydides

“In valor, there is hope.” – Publius Cornelius Tacitus

“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.” – G.K. Chesterton

“Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they have been given.” – Orson Scott Card

“I can’t tell you how proud I am to lead soldiers in combat. They are the stars and that’s not rhetoric.” – General David Petraeus

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.” – Mark Twain

“The soldier is the army. No army is better than its soldiers. The soldier is also a citizen.” – General George S. Patton