"There were many, many times thereafter that Don regretted having enlisted - but so has every man who ever volunteered for military service."
— Robert A. Heinlein (Between Planets)

"I cried, never want to hold the hand of another guy, to young for him they told her, waitin' for the love of a travelin' soldier!"
— Dixie Chicks Travelin' Soldier

"The soldier—that is, the great soldier—of to-day is not a romantic animal, dashing at forlorn hopes, animated by frantic sentiment, full of fancies as to a love-lady or a sovereign; but a quiet, grave man, busied in charts, exact in sums, master of the art of tactics, occupied in trivial detail; thinking, as the Duke of Wellington was said to do, most of the shoes of his soldiers; despising all manner of èclat and eloquence; perhaps, like Count Moltke, ‘silent in seven languages’."
— Walter Bagehot

"The Lord gets His best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction."
— Charles Spurgeon

""...It is a proud privilege to be a soldier – a good soldier … [with] discipline, self-respect, pride in his unit and his country, a high sense of duty and obligation to comrades and to his superiors, and a self confidence born of demonstrated ability.""
— George S. Patton Jr.

"a soldier lives always for the next battle, because he knows that before it arrives impossible changes can occur in his favor."
— James A. Michener (Poland)

"No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck."
— Erich Maria Remarque

"We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial- I believe we are lost."
— Erich Maria Remarque