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“If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.”
Sun Tzu
“Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war”
Seneca
“Old soldiers never die; they just fade away. 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
“The soldier's main enemy is not the opposing soldier, but his own commander.”
Ramman Kenoun
“Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.”
Will Rogers
“I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.”
Clara Barton
“The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.”
Heinrich Heine
“I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.”
Jorge Luis Borges
“History is an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.”
Euripides
