Quotes by Soldiers

For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.
Garcilaso de la Vega
My dear my better half.
Philip Sidney
Take up our quarrel with the foe! To you from failing hands we throw The torch be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep though poppies grow In Flanders' fields.
John McCrae
They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.
Sir Philip Sidney
The muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo No more on Life's parade shall meet The brave and fallen few. On Fame's eternal camping-ground Their silent tents are spread And Glory guards with solemn round The bivouac of the dead.
Theodore O'Hara
The gods help those who help themselves.
Marcus Terentius Varro
Be always sure you're right then go ahead.
Davy Crockett
I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare but I can write a book by me.
Sir Walter Raleigh
Do what thy manhood bids thee do.
Sir Richard Burton
We must like what we have when we don't have what we like.
Roger de Rabutin
Stone walls do not a prison make Nor iron bars a cage Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage.
Richard Lovelace
The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
Xenophon
When we have not what we love we must love what we have.
Roger de Rabutin
All political lives unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture end in failure.
Enoch Powell
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
Nathan Hale
The things we see are the mind's best bet as to what is out front.
Adelbert Ames
Do what thy manhood bids thee do.
Sir Richard Burton
We must like what we have when we don't have what we like.
Roger de Rabutin
I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare but I can write a book by me.
Sir Walter Raleigh
Stone walls do not a prison make Nor iron bars a cage Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage.
Richard Lovelace
The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
Xenophon
When we have not what we love we must love what we have.
Roger de Rabutin
All political lives unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture end in failure.
Enoch Powell
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
Nathan Hale
The things we see are the mind's best bet as to what is out front.
Adelbert Ames
I could not love thee dear so much Loved I not honour more.
Richard Lovelace
It is not good to wake a sleeping lion.
Philip Sidney
Life is a game of whist. From unseen sources The cards are shuffled and the hands are dealt. I do not like the way the cards are shuffled But yet I like the game and want to play.
Eugene F. Ware
I could not love thee dear so much Loved I not honor more.
Richard Lovelace
Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man's life.
Sir Philip Sidney
God helps those who help themselves.
Algernon Sidney
God is usually on the side of big squadrons and against little ones.
Roger de Bussy-Rabutin
In Flanders' fields the poppies blow Between the crosses row on row That mark our place and in the sky The larks still bravely singing fly Scarce heard among the guns below.
John McCrae
The farmer works the soil The agriculturist works the farmer.
Eugene F. Ware
Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.
Sir Boyle Roche
Come Sleep! Oh Sleep the certain knot of peace The baiting-place of wit the balm of woe The poor man's wealth the prisoner's release The indifferent judge between the high and low.
Sir Philip Sidney
We must like what we have when we don't have what we like.
Roger de Bussy-Rabutin
I will believe in the right of one man to govern a nation despotically when I find a man born unto the world with boots and spurs and a nation with saddles on their backs.
Algernon Sidney
To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows - and I needn't.
Francis Yeats-Brown
The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
Xenophon
We must like what we have when we don't have what we like.
Roger de Rabutin
For most men the world is centered in self, which is misery: to have one's world centered in God is peace.
Donald Hankey
Certainly, a clear line must be preserved by strict discipline, and on the other hand the men must know that everything is done for them that hard times permit. On the top of that it follows that, among real men, what counts is deeds, not words; and then it comes of itself, when such are the relations between men and their leaders, that instead of opposition there is harmony between them. The leader is merely a clearer expression of the common will and an example of life and death. And there is no science in all this. It is a practical quality, the simple manly commonsense that is native to a sound and vigorous race.
Ernst Jünger
The anarchist, as the born foe of authority, will be destroyed by it after damaging it more or less. The anarch, on the other hand, has appropriated authority; he is sovereign. He therefore behaves as a neutral power vis-à-vis state and society. He may like, dislike, or be indifferent to whatever occurs in them. That is what determines his conduct; he invests no emotional values.
Ernst Jünger
My unlucky star had destined me to be born when there was much talk about morality and, at the same time, more murders than in any other period. There is, undoubtedly, some connection between these phenomena. I sometime ask myself whether the connection was a priori, since these babblers are cannibals from the start - or a connection a posteriori, since they inflate themselves with their moralizing to a height which becomes dangerous for others.However that may be, I was always happy to meet a person who owed his touch of common sense and good manners to his parents and who didn't need big principles. I do not claim more for myself, and I am a man who for an entire lifetime has been moralized at to the right and the left - by teachers and superiors, by policemen and journalists, by Jews and Gentiles, by inhabitants of the Alps, of islands, and the plains, by cut-throats and aristocrats - all of whom looked as if butter wouldn't melt in their mouths.
Ernst Jünger
England is seen at its worst when it has to deal with men like Wilde. In Germany Wilde and Byron are appreciated as authors: in England they still go pecking about their love-affairs. Anyone who calls a book ‘immoral’ or 'moral’ should be caned. A book by itself can be neither. It is only a question of the morality or immorality of the reader. But the English approach all questions of vice with such a curious mixture of curiosity and fear that it’s impossible to deal with them.
Charles Hamilton Sorley
Mental discipline, prayer and remoteness from the world and its disturbing visions reduce temptation to a minimum, but they can never entirely abolish it. In medieval traditions, abbeys and convents were always considered to be expugnable centres of revolt against infernal dominion on earth. They became, accordingly, special targets. Satan, issuing orders at nightfall to his foul precurrers, was rumoured to dispatch to capital cities only one junior fiend. This solitary demon, the legend continues, sleeps at his post. There is no work for him; the battle was long ago won. But monasteries, those scattered danger points, become the chief objectives of nocturnal flight; the sky fills with the beat of sable wings as phalanx after phalanx streams to the attack, and the darkness crepitates with the splintering of a myriad lances against the masonry of asceticism.
Patrick Leigh Fermor
With this idea, being a man with long experience of the sea (and they certainly have a great advantage over other men in any sort of task)...
Garcilaso de la Vega
The men and women of England who abolished slavery, created the educational system, or gave women the vote were not acting on the hypotheses of what the voters wanted. They were afire with faith in what people ought to want and in the end they persuaded their lethargic compatriots to give them enough support to warrant a change.
Geoffrey Vickers
If we are considering the history of our own country, we write at length of the periods when our ancestors were prosperous and victorious, but we pass quickly over their shortcomings or their defeats. Our people are represented as patriotic heroes, their enemies as grasping imperialists, or subversive rebels. In other words, our national histories are propaganda, not well balanced investigation.
John Bagot Glubb
The anarch sticks to facts, not ideas. He suffers not for facts but because of them, and usually through his own fault, as in a traffic accident. Certainly, there are unforeseeable things – maltreatments. However, I believe I have attained a certain degree of self-distancing that allows me to regard this as an accident.
Ernst Jünger
Liberty? Independence? Are they to remain only words? Gentlemen, let us make them fighting words!
Nathan Hale
I never heard communism seriously propounded or argued; perhaps I was too deeply preoccupied with my own dissipations; and, as it turned out in the end it was a way of thought that I was denied or spared by a geographical fluke. From the end of these travels till the War, I lived, with a year's interruption, in Eastern Europe, among friends whom I must call old-fashioned liberals. They hated Nazi Germany; but it was impossible to look eastwards for inspiration and hope, as their western equivalents--peering from afar, and with the nightmare of only one kind of totalitarianism to vex them--felt able to do. For Russia began only a few fields away, the other side of a river; and there, as all her neighbours knew, great wrong was being done and terrible danger lay. All their fears came true. Living among them made me share those fears and they made stony ground for certain kinds of grain.
Patrick Leigh Fermor
The notion that I had walked twelve hundred miles since Rotterdam filled me with a legitimate feeling of something achieved. But why should the thought that nobody knew where I was, as though I were in flight from bloodhounds or from worshipping corybants bent on dismemberment, generate such a feeling of triumph? It always did.
Patrick Leigh Fermor
Are you okay, man?""Yeah, I'm good."It's a lie. I wonder if I will ever be good again.
David Bellavia
Tomorrow maybe love; but now it is the rainPossesses us entirely, the twilight and the rain.
Alun Lewis
...the Moon, the enemy of poets...("Merchant's Two Sons")
Giambattista Basile
As he walked along, consciously enjoying the early coolness of the morning, he turned and looked behind him. People often do this and are usually surprised to find that there is some reason for turning around. Sometimes there is no apparent reason and they wonder why they did it. ("Ordeal By Water")
P.C. Wren
I am a Christian, but my time in Iraq has convinced me that God doesn't want to hear from me anymore. I've done things that He can never forgive. I've done them consciously. I've made decisions I must live with for years to come. I am not a victim. In each instance, I heard my conscience call for restraint, I told it to shut the fuck up and let me handle my business. All the sins I've committed, I've done with one objective: to keep my men alive.
David Bellavia
I am an anarch – not because I despise authority, but because I need it. Likewise, I am not a nonbeliever, but a man who demands something worth believing in.
Ernst Jünger