A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color.

— Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.

— Jackson, Thomas J.

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

— Jefferson, Thomas

But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract.

— Lincoln, Abraham

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

— Macarthur, Douglas

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

— Patton, George S.

I want to see you shoot the way you shout.

— Roosevelt, Theodore

So, as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.

— Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.

— Tennyson, Lord Alfred

I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.

— Twain, Mark

I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.

— Wilder, Thornton