Quotes from Audie Murphy

I Knew why I felt at home. The spirit of freedom was hovering over that play yard as it did all over France at that time. A country was free again.

I'm glad that it didn't take as long to get Shepard off the ground as it's taken this series. I'd begun to think the Congo would be ahead of us in the space race before Whispering Smith ever got on the air.

Lead from the front.

They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that.

No soldier ever really survives a war.

Let each man hear his own music and live by it. The drums roll one way for one man, and another way for another. You have to listen for your own.

Perhaps it is the knowledge that we carry in our hearts that nobody ultimately wins. Somewhere we all go down. Force used tyrannically is our common enemy. Why align ourselves with it in whatever shape or fashion.

and, without once looking back, walk down the road through the forest. If the Germans want to shoot me, let them. I am too weak from fear and exhaustion to care.

Suddenly I see the comedy of little men, myself included, who are pitted against a riddle that is as vast and indifferent as the blue sky above us. (pg. 170)

My country. America! That is it. We have been so intent on death that we have forgotten life. And now suddenly life faces us. I swear to myself that I will measure up to it. I may be branded by war, but I will not be defeated by it.

You'll report nobody," says Kerrigan in a voice trembling with rage. "Up here we don't run to headquarters with our problems." "I know regulations. A noncom–" "We left regulations in the rear. They were too goddamned heavy to carry.

I'd hate their guts if they had any.

It don't work," Martinez declares. "I know an old girl who's had dirt on her face from the time she got out of diapers; and she's still as ugly as a horny toad. Lives in Fort Worth." "Is

Now I have shed my first blood. I feel no qualms; no pride; no remorse. There is only a weary indifference that will follow me throughout the war.

major paused in his jeep. "What's wrong?" he asked. "Are you sick, soldier?" "Nosir. I'm just spilling my guts for the hell of it." "Maybe you'd better report to the medics.

They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that.

No soldier ever really survives a war.

After the war, they took Army dogs and rehabilitated them for civilian life. But they turned soldiers into civilians immediately, and let em sink or swim.

Now I have shed my first blood. I feel no qualms, no pride, no remorse. There is only a weary indifference that will follow me throughout the war.

Sometimes it takes more courage to get up and run than to stay. You either just do it or you don't. I got so scared the first day in combat I just decided to go along with it.