Memorial Day Sayings

Let those who have been robbers, now become soldiers of Christ.

O most valiant soldiers and descendants of invincible ancestors, do not degenerate, but recall the valor of your forefathers.

Therefore, I exhort and implore you—not I, but the Lord—to go as soldiers of Christ.

It is not a death ray in the sense that it kills. It is a weapon that will make war impossible.

The question whether machines can think is as meaningless as the question whether submarines can swim.

I consider myself a lucky man who did not have to choose between going to war and doing something else. I just did what I was doing.

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemy's.

The art of war is like that of governing, to unite, to concentrate, and to act.

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

The primitive, simple soldier is the most valuable and the most useful asset to the state.

In the Soviet Army, it takes more courage to retreat than to advance.

The revolutionary war is a war of the masses; it can be waged only by mobilizing the masses and relying on them.

I feel sure that if I were a man, I should be a great soldier.

I am a soldier and a politician, but I am also a philosopher. I seek the truth, and I speak what I believe to be true.

I have been a soldier for twenty years, and I have never seen a battle won by a committee.

The United States is a nation of shopkeepers, not of soldiers.

I would rather face a thousand Franks on the battlefield than one treacherous Muslim.

The tears of a child are more powerful than the swords of an army.

The greatest weapon is a well-disciplined army.

A good general must be able to change his plans on the battlefield.