“Brave soldier, never fear.
Even though your death is near.”
Hans Christian Andersen The Steadfast Tin Soldier
Source: The Steadfast Tin Soldier
To Leon Goldensohn, February 28, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" - by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004
“Brave soldier, never fear.
Even though your death is near.”
Hans Christian Andersen The Steadfast Tin Soldier
Source: The Steadfast Tin Soldier
Jack T. Chick (1924–2016) Christian comics writer
Chick tracts, " Doom Town http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0272/0272_01.asp" (1991)
Linda Howard (1950) American writer
Source: Now You See Her
“Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs.”
Desmond Morris (1928) English zoologist, ethologist and surrealist painter
Desmond Morris (2009), Catwatching. p. 2
Vitali Klitschko (1971) Ukrainian boxer and politician
"Ukraine war: Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko says it is 'a big privilege for every man' to defend Ukraine and warns Russian soldiers to 'go away'" https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-war-kyiv-mayor-vitali-klitschko-says-it-is-a-big-privilege-for-every-man-to-defend-ukraine-and-warns-russian-soldiers-to-go-away-12578968, Sky News, 31 March 2022
Aldous Huxley book Island
Island (1962)
Context: One Folk, One Realm, One Leader. Union with the unity of an insect swarm. Knowledgeless understanding of nonsense and diabolism. And then the newsreel camera had cut back to the serried ranks, the swastikas, the brass bands, the yelling hypnotist on the rostrum. And here once again, in the glare of his inner light, was the brown insectlike column, marching endlessly to the tunes of this rococo horror-music. Onward Nazi soldiers, onward Christian soldiers, onward Marxists and Muslims, onward every chosen People, every Crusader and Holy War-maker. Onward into misery, into all wickedness, into death!
“Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my side
In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree?”
Come, send round the Wine.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Emilio De Bono (1866–1944) Italian General
Quoted in "Mussolini: Twilight and Fall" - Page 129 - by Roman Dąbrowski - Italy - 1956
“ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred with out a head”
Euripidés (-480–-406 BC) ancient Athenian playwright