“When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An' go to your Gawd like a soldier.
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
So-oldier of the Queen!”
Young British Soldier, Stanza 13.
Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896)
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“Not one American soldier is going to die on that goddamned beach.”
George Marshall (1880–1959) US military leader, Army Chief of Staff
Source: reaction to Churchill's pitch at the Cairo Conference in November 1943 for the Americans to join in an assault on Rhodes. quoted by Correl, John T. “Churchill’s Southern Strategy.” Air Force Magazine, January 2013 https://www.airforcemag.com/article/0113churchill/
Kurt Vonnegut book The Sirens of Titan
Source: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 5 “Letter From an Unknown Hero” (p. 120)
“Here are some happy English soldiers.
They are going to make the Irish happy.”
Adrian Mitchell (1932–2008) British writer
"A Tourist Guide to England", from Adrian Mitchell's Greatest Hits (1991).
“So you start with an impulse and go to what your ear likes.”
Paul Simon (1941) American musician, songwriter and producer
Interview with Tony Schwartz in Playboy (February 1984) p. 166
Context: I write from instinct, from inexplicable sparkle. I don't know why I'm writing what I'm writing. Usually, I sit and I let my hands wander on my guitar. And I sing anything. I play anything. And I wait till I come across a pleasing accident. Then I start to develop it. Once you take a piece of musical information, there are certain implications that it automatically contains — the implication of that phrase elongated, contracted, or inverted or in another time signature. So you start with an impulse and go to what your ear likes.
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
2010s, 2016, September, First presidential debate (September 26, 2016)
“The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.”
Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) German poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic
As quoted in The Cynic's Lexicon : A Dictionary of Amoral Advice (1984) by Jonathon Green
Variant translation: The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.
As quoted in The Routledge Dictionary of Quotations (1987) by Robert Andrews, p. 281