So in the simple blessing of a rainbow, In the bevelled edge of a sunlit mirror, I have seen visible, Death's artifact Like a soldier's ribbon on a tunic tacked.

-Abse, Dannie
  'Pathology of Colours'.

It is fitting that we should have buried the unknown Prime Minister by the side of the Unknown Soldier.

-Asquith
  Remark at the Westminster  Abbey funeral of Bonar Law, 5 Nov.

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

-of)
  Speech, Berlin,  Aug.

We receive this Child into the Congregation of Christ's flock, and dosign him with thesign of the Cross, in token that hereafter he shall not be ashamed to confess the faith of Christ crucified, and manfully to fight under his banner against sin, the world, and the devil, and to continue Christ's faithful soldier and servant unto his life's end. Amen.

-Book of Common Prayer
Publick Baptism of Infants, Reception of the Child.

Of all tyrannies in history, the Bolshevik tyranny is the worst, the most destructive, the most degrading. Every British and French soldier killed last year was really done to death by Lenin and Trotskyönot in fair war, but by the treacherous desertion of an ally without parallel in the history of the world.

-Churchill, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer
  Speech, London,11  Apr.

For a soldier I listed, to grow great in fame, And be shot at for sixpence a day.

-Diaz, Porfirio
  'Charity'.

For here the lover and killer are mingled who had one body and one heart. And death, who had the soldier singled has done the lover mortal hurt.

-Douglas, Gavin
  'Vergissmeinnicht'.

Drinking is the soldier's pleasure; Rich the treasure; Sweet the pleasure; Sweet is pleasure after pain.

-Dryden,John
  Alexander's Feast, l.57^60.

A soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains.

-Eisenhower, Dwight D(avid)
  Inaugural address, 20  Jan.

On fait de la critique quand on ne peut pas faire de l'art, de me"  me qu'on se met mouchard quand on ne peut pas e"  tre soldat. Someone is a critic when he cannot be an artist in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.

-Flaubert, Gustave
  Letter to Mme Louise Colet, 22 Oct.

Since no normal humble man can help but feel magnificent in a brand-new suit of clothes, it is not surprising that those who don a fresh suit of bright white linen every day should feel magnificent always. Nor is it surprising that a normal humble head should swell beneath a solar topee, since a topee is more a badge of authority than a hat, as is the hat of a soldier.

-Herbert, Xavier
  Capricornia,'Psychological Effect of a Solar Topee'.

Ben Battle was a soldier bold, And used to war's alarms: But a cannon-ball took off his legs, So he laid down his arms!

-Honorius of Autun
  'Faithless Nelly Gray'.

By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin'eastward to the sea, There's a Burma girl a-settin', and I know she thinks o' me; For thewind isinthepalmtrees, an'thetemplebellsthey say: 'Come you back, you British soldier'; come you back to Mandalay!'

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  'Mandalay'.

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains And the women come out to cut up what remains Just roll to your rifle and blow out your brains An'go to your Gawd like a soldier.

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  'TheYoung British Soldier'.

   You are ordered abroad as a soldier of the King to help our French comrades against the invasion of a common enemy† In this new experience you may find temptations both in wine and women.You must entirely resist both temptations, and while treating all women with perfect courtesy, you should avoid any intimacy.Do your duty bravely. Fear God. Honour the King.

-Herbert, 1st Earl
  Message to the soldiers of the British Expeditionary Force, reported in The Times,19  Aug.

They're changing guard at Buckingham Palaceö Christopher Robin went down with Alice. Alice is marrying one of the guard. 'A soldier's life is terribly hard,' Says Alice.

-Milne, A(lan) A(lexander)
  When We Were VeryYoung,'Buckingham Palace'.

These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink fromtheservice of his country; but hethat standsit now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.

-Paine,Thomas
  The Crisis, introduction, Dec.

Navita de ventis, de tauris narrat arator, Enumerat miles vulnera, pastor oves. The sailor tells stories of the winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier lists his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

-Propertius, Sextus   1c
Elegies, bk.2, no.1, l.43^4.

But one thing we learned: there is no glory in the deed Until the soldier wears a badge of tarnished braid.

-Read, Sir Herbert Edward
  'To a Conscript of1940'.

You have heard the sound of the white soldier's axe on the Little Piney. His presence here is†an insult to the spirits of our ancestors. Are we to give up their sacred graves to be ploughed for corn? Dakotas, I am for war.

-Red Cloud original name Mahpiua Luta
  Speech before war council at Fort Laramie,Wyoming.