Top 861 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Soldiers - Page 13

I never liked being called the 'most decorated' soldier. There were so many guys who should have gotten medals and never did-- guys who were killed.

Experience is valuable only if it's imbued with meaning from which one can draw salient conclusions. Otherwise, experience becomes imprisoning.

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder.

Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.

I live my life day by day.

If I had to say something to Americans, being afraid and having fear, it's okay to be fearful because that will make you strong; being afraid will shut you down.

I went to white schools and I didn't know anything about black history.

I adored my father.

I state for the record that I have never sought funds from any POW family, nor led them to believe in any way that we were going on a mission to rescue their specific missing loved one.

The rights of no oppressed people have ever yet been obtained by a voluntary act of justice on the part of the oppressors.

All a poet can do today is warn.

Every people should be the originators of their own destiny, the projectors of their own schemes, and creators of the events that lead to their destiny -- the consummation of their own desires.

Was it proof of madness in the first corps of sea officers to have, at so critical a period, launched out on the ocean with only two armed merchant ships, two armed brigantines, and one armed sloop, to make war against such a power as Great Britain?

I at once commenced the ascent through a shower of arrows.

Since human wisdom cannot secure us from accidents, it is the greatest effort of reason to bear them well.

And freedom is what America means to the world.

What, do they run already? Then I die happy.

We have been so trying to convince them from the very beginning of our organization, but with no success.

I worked as a trainee manager for two years after leaving university - then got bored with the nine to five.

Yeah. I mean, it just seemed to me that it was - I felt so helpless to this business of not having any papers. That seems like a throwback to a schoolboy.

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

I find myself in a new and strange position here: President, cabinet, Gen. Scott, and all deferring to me. By some strange operation of magic I seem to have become the power of the land.

As to war, I am and always was a great enemy, at the same time a warrior the greater part of my life and were I young again, should still be a warrior while ever this country should be invaded and I lived.

We held the team together for as long as possible and then sent all except the most critical personnel home.

I live by honor. I live by integrity. I live by 'never quit.' It's not a cool T-shirt phrase for me.

The terrorists' only rules? That there are no rules, and this gives them a major advantage.

I have never received a Farthing of Prize Money either for Artillery Ammunition or Vessels.

If I fall, pick up the flag, kiss it, and keep on going.

Every day without fail one should consider himself as dead. There is a saying of the elders that goes, 'Step from under the eaves and you're a dead man. Leave the gate and the enemy is waiting.' This is not a matter of being careful. It is to consider oneself as dead beforehand.

I was well beaten myself, and I am better for it.

Every friend to the liberty of his country is bound to reflect, and step forward to prevent the dreadful consequences which shall result from a government of events.

The purpose of today's training is to defeat yesterday's understanding.

It is absolutely true in war, were other things equal, that numbers, whether men, shells, bombs, etc., would be supreme. Yet it is also absolutely true that other things are never equal and can never be equal.

To win any battle, you must fight as if you are already dead

Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.

There is such a choice of difficulties that I am myself at a loss how to determine.

My college experience was like everyone else's. I learned a lot. I gained a new perspective on the world and on people that I'm so thankful and appreciative for.

To me our bombing policy appears to be suicidal. Not because it does not do vast damage to our enemy, it does; but because, simultaneously, it does vast damage to our peace aim, unless that aim is mutual economic and social annihilation.

As far as military necessity will permit, religiously respect the constitutional rights of all.

Writing with you is the only thing that keeps me alive.

The lion is, however, rarely heard - much more seldom seen.

I met dozens of pilots and would go on dates. I had the opportunity to go up in one of the planes, but I was scared of flying.

As God once said, and I think rightly.

They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.

Their plan is to return the entire world - not just the Middle East - to the days of the caliphate and either convert all of us so-called infidels into born-again Islamic believers or kill us.

I congratulate you, my brave countrymen and fellow soldiers, on the spirit and success with which you have executed this important part of our enterprise.

Everything starts and finishes with the soldier.

War's not black and white; it's gray. If you don't fight in the gray area, you're going to lose.

Soldiering is a very important profession, is it not?

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

There was a military police brigade with over 3,400 soldiers getting ready to go home because their mission - prisoner-of-war operations - was finished.

I had been a guerrilla leader in World War II. And I used to say that the way to fight the guerrilla was with guerrillas. And I disbelieved that you could by bombing, ah, have any effect on the supplies coming down through the Ho Chi Minh trails.

I am definitely a storyteller, but probably not a traditional Storyteller.

I was born military. I made up my mind right away, 'Im gong to do this for the rest of my life.'

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

They wish for a general government of unity, as they see that the local legislatures must naturally and necessarily tend to retard the general government.

I am ashamed to be an American. And the title of U.S. soldier is just the lie of fools.

In Afghanistan, getting shot at was a regular occurrence. I viewed survival as a numbers game. As point man, every time I entered a Taliban compound first, I played the odds in my head.

I have sacrificed not only my favorite scheme of life, but the softer affections of the heart, and my prospects of domestic happiness, and I am ready to sacrifice my life also, with cheerfulness, if that forfeiture could restore peace and good will among mankind.

No man in America ever strove more, and more successfully first to bring about a Congress in 1765, and then to support it ever afterwards than myself.