Quotes by Soldier

"China should bury head to work diligently for 10 years and then raise head to face Japan."

Yuan Shikai, Chinese Soldier

Work, Years

"My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic."

Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese Soldier

Health, Doves

"Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own."

Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese Soldier

Strength, Meditation, Prayer, Self

"Who needs such a long intestine, anyway?"

Moshe Dayan, Israeli Soldier

Needs,

"We should demand his blood not from the Arabs of Gaza but from ourselves. Let us make our reckoning today."

Moshe Dayan, Israeli Soldier

Blood, Today

"Let us not be afraid to see the hatred that consumes the lives of hundreds of thousands of Arabs who sit around us and wait for the moment when their hands will be able to reach our blood."

Moshe Dayan, Israeli Soldier

Blood, Hatred, Will

"We are a small nation, but strong."

Moshe Dayan, Israeli Soldier

Nation,

"Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist."

Moshe Dayan, Israeli Soldier

Blame, Books, Geography, Names

"The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective."

Moshe Dayan, Israeli Soldier

Punishment,

"Most important, don't do anything you don't want."

Moshe Dayan, Israeli Soldier

Want,

"Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice."

Moshe Dayan, Israeli Soldier

Money, Advice, American, Friends

"Soldiers of Israel, we have no aims of conquest. Our purpose is to bring to naught the attempts of the Arab armies to conquer our land."

Moshe Dayan, Israeli Soldier

Purpose, Conquest, Israel, Land

"The Jews have opened fire, and they are unready to begin a war."

Moshe Dayan, Israeli Soldier

War, Fire

"It's a democracy and if I am outvoted, I have to accept the majority decisions."

Moshe Dayan, Israeli Soldier

Decisions, Democracy, Majority

"I have the strength to endure it all."

Moshe Dayan, Israeli Soldier

Strength,

"It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce the policy of strength toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness."

Moshe Dayan, Israeli Soldier

Power, Policy, Strength, Cause

"It isn't a secret that my heart is damaged. All the treatments and medications haven't been effective."

Moshe Dayan, Israeli Soldier

Heart,

"Israel cannot afford to stand against the entire world and be denounced as the aggressor."

Moshe Dayan, Israeli Soldier

Israel, World

"If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies."

Moshe Dayan, Israeli Soldier

Peace, Enemies, Friends, Talk

6

"If I had to resign every time the Cabinet disagrees with me, I could not last as a Defense Minister one week."

Moshe Dayan, Israeli Soldier

Time, Defense

5

"I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table."

Moshe Dayan, Israeli Soldier

Peace, Road

"I have only one eye. Do you want me to look at the road or the at the speedometer."

Moshe Dayan, Israeli Soldier

Eye, Road, Want

"I feel I've lived so long, and went through so much, that all I want is calm and rest."

Moshe Dayan, Israeli Soldier

Rest, Want

"I don't think we should be a model family living in a model home."

Moshe Dayan, Israeli Soldier

Family, Home, Living

"Freedom is the oxygen of the soul."

Moshe Dayan, Israeli Soldier

Soul, Freedom

6

"After all, we are not children. It's time we planned our life."

Moshe Dayan, Israeli Soldier

Life, Time, Children

"I know that plans and reality may be two different things, but I think my demands on life are minimal."

Moshe Dayan, Israeli Soldier

Life, May, Reality

"We could not guard every water pipeline from being blown up and every tree from being uprooted. We could not prevent every murder of a worker in an orchard or a family in their beds."

Moshe Dayan, Israeli Soldier

Family, Beds, Being, Murder

"There is not one single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population."

Moshe Dayan, Israeli Soldier

Country, Population

"It was in our power to set high price for our blood, a price too high for the Arab community, the Arab army, or the Arab governments to think it worth paying."

Moshe Dayan, Israeli Soldier

Power, Army, Blood, Community

"Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not."

Xenophon, Greek Soldier

Self-control, Excess, Grief, Injury, Living

"There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform."

Xenophon, Greek Soldier

Leadership, Contempt, May, Risk, Will

"For drink, there was beer which was very strong when not mingled with water, but was agreeable to those who were used to it. They drank this with a reed, out of the vessel that held the beer, upon which they saw the barley swim."

Xenophon, Greek Soldier

Cultural, Beer, Water

"Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything."

Xenophon, Greek Soldier

Fitness, Accuracy

5

"A few regular troops from old France, weakened by hunger and sickness, who, when fresh, were unable to withstand the British soldiers, are their general's chief dependence."

James Wolfe, British Soldier

Sports, Dependence, France, Hunger, Old

"It's like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There's all these languages and possibilities and concepts to speak or communicate with."

William Wiley, American Soldier

Communication, English, Possibilities

"All kids, when they go to school, are pretty good artists and dancers and singers and poets. All that gets buried, basically through being educated, or brainwashed."

William Wiley, American Soldier

Education, Artists, Being, Kids, Poets

"I don't think I have been loved by my troops, but I think I have been respected."

William Westmoreland, American Soldier

Leadership, Troops

"I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student."

William Westmoreland, American Soldier

Leadership, First

"In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia."

William Westmoreland, American Soldier

Leadership, End

"It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation."

William Westmoreland, American Soldier

Leadership, Effect, Running

1

"Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there."

William Westmoreland, American Soldier

Leadership, Vietnam

"The last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me."

William Westmoreland, American Soldier

Leadership, Man, World

"Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind."

William Westmoreland, American Soldier

Censorship, Mind, Public

"The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names."

William Westmoreland, American Soldier

War, Names, Vietnam

"If I commit an error I do it without bad intention."

Stand Watie, Cherokee Soldier

Intention, Error

5

"I don't think we should tell them what we're going to do in advance. Let them think. Worry. Wonder. Uncertainty is the most chilling thing of all."

Vernon A. Walters, American Soldier

Sports, Uncertainty, Wonder, Worry

"China should bury head to work diligently for 10 years and then raise head to face Japan."

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"My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic."

​

"Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own."

​

"Who needs such a long intestine, anyway?"

​

"We should demand his blood not from the Arabs of Gaza but from ourselves. Let us make our reckoning today."

​

"To aim and hit, you need one eye only, and one good finger."

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"There is no more Palestine. Finished."

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"The Old City of Jerusalem is in our hands."

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"Let us not be afraid to see the hatred that consumes the lives of hundreds of thousands of Arabs who sit around us and wait for the moment when their hands will be able to reach our blood."

​

"We are a small nation, but strong."

​

"Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist."

​

"The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective."

​

"Most important, don't do anything you don't want."

​

"Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice."

​

"Soldiers of Israel, we have no aims of conquest. Our purpose is to bring to naught the attempts of the Arab armies to conquer our land."

​

"The Jews have opened fire, and they are unready to begin a war."

​

"It's a democracy and if I am outvoted, I have to accept the majority decisions."

​

"I have the strength to endure it all."

​

"It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce the policy of strength toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness."

​

"It isn't a secret that my heart is damaged. All the treatments and medications haven't been effective."

​

"Israel cannot afford to stand against the entire world and be denounced as the aggressor."

​

"If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies."

6

"If I had to resign every time the Cabinet disagrees with me, I could not last as a Defense Minister one week."

5

"I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table."

​

"I have only one eye. Do you want me to look at the road or the at the speedometer."

​

"I feel I've lived so long, and went through so much, that all I want is calm and rest."

​

"I don't think we should be a model family living in a model home."

​

"Freedom is the oxygen of the soul."

6

"After all, we are not children. It's time we planned our life."

​

"I know that plans and reality may be two different things, but I think my demands on life are minimal."

​

"We could not guard every water pipeline from being blown up and every tree from being uprooted. We could not prevent every murder of a worker in an orchard or a family in their beds."

​

"There is not one single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population."

​

"It was in our power to set high price for our blood, a price too high for the Arab community, the Arab army, or the Arab governments to think it worth paying."

​

"Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not."

​

"There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform."

​

"For drink, there was beer which was very strong when not mingled with water, but was agreeable to those who were used to it. They drank this with a reed, out of the vessel that held the beer, upon which they saw the barley swim."

​

"Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything."

5

"A few regular troops from old France, weakened by hunger and sickness, who, when fresh, were unable to withstand the British soldiers, are their general's chief dependence."

​

"It's like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There's all these languages and possibilities and concepts to speak or communicate with."

​

"All kids, when they go to school, are pretty good artists and dancers and singers and poets. All that gets buried, basically through being educated, or brainwashed."