Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.
The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
“The natural formation of the country is the soldier’s best ally”
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn't going to compose beethoven's fifth.
When we assumed the soldier, we did not lay aside the citizen.