Old Soldier Quotes

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God and the Soldier we adore,
In time of danger, not before,
The danger gone, and all things righted,
God is forgotten, the Soldier slighted.

(Anonymous)
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"For those who fight for it, life has a special flavor the protected will never know."

(Unknown defender of Khe Sanh in Vietnam)
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"....people are very quick to quote the wonderful lines of the Declaration that relate to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and they should.  They are lines that inspire people around the world.  I want you to think about the bottom line of the Declaration of Independence, and I ask that you go and read that last line.

   {In support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of a Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.}

(John O. Marsh Jr.)
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"The Nation today needs men who think in terms of service to their country and not in terms of their country's debt to them."

(General Omar N. Bradley)
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".......the Soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war."

(General Douglas MacArthur)
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"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty"

(Thomas Jefferson)
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"Again and again, we have owed peace to the fact that we were prepared for war."

(Theodore Roosevelt)
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"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things.  The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing is worth war is much worse.  A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight; nothing he cares more about than his own personal safety; is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free."

(John Stewart Mill)
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"............in the final choice, a Soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chain."

(Dwight D. Eisenhower)
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"The individual who refuses to defend his rights when called by his Government, deserves to be a slave, and must be punished as an enemy of his country, and a friend to her foe."

(General Andrew Jackson)
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for all Soldiers, old and new...............