Dead Soldiers Quotes

• Only the dead have seen the end of war.

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  Plato

  Death   Memorial Day   Plato  

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• I have one sentiment for soldiers living and dead: cheers for the living; tears for the dead.

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  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Memorial Day   Cheer   Soldier  

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.3100, Library of Alexandria

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• Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives.

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  Siegfried Sassoon

  Home   Gun   Thinking  

  Counter-Attack (1918) "Dreamers"

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• Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

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  George Santayana

  Military   War   Philosophical  

  1086

• Military cemeteries around the world are packed with brainwashed dead soldiers who were convinced God was on their side. America prays for God to destroy our enemies. Our enemies pray for God to destroy us. Somebody's gonna be disappointed! Somebody's wasting their time! Could it be.. everyone?

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  George Carlin

  Military   America   Soldier  

  1169

• Conservatives want live babies so they can train them to be dead soldiers.

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  George Carlin

  Funny   Sarcastic   Witty  

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• I mean the only thing us dead soldiers got in common is that none of us was good enough or lucky enough to survive the fight. We're a host of failures.

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  Steven Erikson

  Mean   Fighting   Soldier  

  Steven Erikson (2009). “The Bonehunters: Malazan Book Of Fallen 6”, p.533, Random House

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• I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them, And the white skeletons of young men-I saw them; I saw the debris and debris of all the dead soldiers of the war; But I saw they were not as was thought; They themselves were fully at rest-they suffer'd not; The living remain'd and suffer'd-the mother suffer'd, And the wife and the child, and the musing comrade suffer'd, And the armies that remain'd suffer'd.

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  Walt Whitman

  Mother   Veterans Day   Children  

  Walt Whitman (1870). “Passage to India”, p.39, Haskell House Pub Limited

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• Once you leave the womb, conservatives don't care about you until you reach military age. Then you're just what they're looking for. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers.

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  George Carlin

  Baby   Military   Stupid  

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• Today, whether it is a student who holds a sit-in to get the army recruiters off his campus, or the mother of a dead soldier who refuses to leave the front gate of the president's ranch, we continue to be saved by brave people who risk ridicule and rejection but end up turning huge tides of public opinion in the direction of righteousness. We owe them enormous debts of gratitude. It is not easy to stand up for what is right, especially when everyone else is afraid to leave the comfortable path of conformity.

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  Michael Moore

  Mother   Gratitude   Army  

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• Similarly, payments for a dead soldier amount to only $500,000, which is far less than standard estimates of the lifetime economic cost of a death. This statistical value of a life in the US amounts to circa $6.5 million.

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  Joseph Stiglitz

  Soldier   Cost   Lifetime  

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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