Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

If I have got to be a soldier, I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

  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.

When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battlefield, they have all one rank in my eyes.

Our soldiers have nobly fought to protect freedom since our country’s birth, and have fought to protect those that could not protect themselves, even in foreign lands when called upon.

Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.

Soldiers, when committed to a task, can’t compromise. It’s unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it’s been done.

Our flag does not fly because the wind moves it… it flies with the last breath of each soldier who died protecting it.