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Soldier
A soldier is a member of the land component of national armed forces; whereas a soldier hired for service in a foreign army would be termed a mercenary. In most languages, "soldier" includes commissioned and non-commissioned officers in national land forces.
The word soldier is derived from an Old...
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Filter this CollectionTheirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
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- Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
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Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
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- Douglas MacArthur
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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.
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- Abraham Lincoln
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I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.
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- Thornton Wilder
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It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
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- George S. Patton
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A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color.
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So, as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
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- x Spoken by character (if from fictional work):
I want to see you shoot the way you shout.
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- Theodore Roosevelt
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I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.
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- Mark Twain
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Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
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- Thomas Jefferson
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