You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub. - George Bernard Shaw And, moreover, when it happens that both are sincere and good, nothing will mix and amalgamate more easily than an old priest and an old soldier. In reality, they are the same kind of man. One has devoted himself to country upon earth, the other to his country in heaven; there is no other difference. - Victor Hugo Once a man has lived under arms, I suspect he is marked for life.In fact I have heard it remarked that old soldiers never die; they just fade away. - Diana Gabaldon I, Philip Kearny, an old soldier, enter my solemn protest against this order for retreat. - Philip Kearny And like the old soldier in 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 sight to see that duty. - Douglas Macarthur Like the old soldier of the ballad, I ...

I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight. - George S Patton I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers. - Siegfried Sassoon

Blair... is accusing us of executing British soldiers. We want to tell him that we have not executed anybody. They are either killed in battle, most of them get killed because they are cowards anyway, the rest they just get captured. - Mohammed Saeed Al Sahaf The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office. - George Bernard Shaw 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. - James Callaghan He (the British soldier) is generally beloved by two sorts of Companion, in whores and lice, for both these Vermin are great admirers of a Scarlet Coat. - Richard Holmes A few regular troops from old France, weakened by hunger and sickness, who, when fresh, were unable to withstand the British soldiers, are their general's chief dependence. - James Wolfe

When Hitler declared war on the United States, he was betting that German soldiers, raised up in the Hitler Youth, would always out fight American soldiers, brought up in the Boy Scouts. He lost that bet. The Boy Scouts had been taught how to figure their way out of their own problems. - Stephen Ambrose At a time when 2500 American soldiers have given their lives for the cause of bringing democracy to Iraq, it is sad and frustrating to watch the Republican establishment disgrace the exercise of democracy in our own House of Representatives. - Earl Blumenauer No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote. - Hillary Clinton There's something about an American soldier you can't explain. They're so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming t...

That was the difference between a hero and a villain, a soldier and a murderer, a victory and a crime. Which side of a river you called home. - Joe Abercrombie There's the man with his cart who sold me rolls sprinkled with thyme and sesame every morning and then saluted me like a soldier. - Diana Abu Jaber Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?...If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can! - J R R Tolkien I took my orders, too. But if i couldn't keep you alive, I thought I could at least keep you together. In the middle of a big war, you go looking for a small idea to believe in. When you find one, you hold it the way a soldier holds his crucifix when he's praying in a foxhole. - Mitch Albom You said he was a soldier. You don't suppose...?" "Oh, Go...

Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine. - George Dennison Prentice My bladder cancer was related to smoking, and I think smoking kills people. - Bob Schieffer Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life. - Brooke Shields