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Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.

No one hates war like a soldier hates war.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.

Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and if you let that bother you, you're not a good soldier.

I suppose it is the lot of soldiers and Marines to be objectified according to the politics of the day and the mood of the American people about their war.

When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the soldiers and makes it easier for society to commit them to combat.

So the whole of war, when you look at it is probably run by professional soldiers, and the rest of them are just recruits, or people who are just forced to join the army.

Every lover is a soldier.

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.