Quotes About Duty

Nobody dislikes war more than warriors.

Duty is ours; the consequences are the Lord God's

Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.

During peace time a scientist belongs to the World, but during war time he belongs to his country.

The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them?

Which would your men rather be, tired, or dead?

A "just war" - if there could be such a thing - would not require conscription. Volunteers would be plentiful.

I did only what my duty demanded. I could have taken no other course without dishonor.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.

Sir, if you think that I am that kind of a man, you have missed your mark. I would rather die a thousand deaths than betray a friend or be false to duty.

I am more anxious than I can express that my men should be not only good soldiers of their country, but also good soldiers of the cross.

I do not feel guilty of any war crimes, I have only done my duty as an intelligence organ, and I refuse to serve as an ersatz for Himmler.

If soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army.

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.

How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?

War is elevating, because the individual disappears before the great conception of the state... What a perversion of morality to wish to abolish heroism among men!

If I do my full duty, the rest will take care of itself.

It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this is a war without end.

The most noble fate a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's desolation.

I shall act as I think my duty requires.

The troops are therefore empowered and are in duty bound in this war to use without mitigation even against women and children any means that will lead to success.

We were not making war against Germany, we were being ordered about in the King's war with Germany.

War for the sake of war is sin, but war for the sake of defense is duty.

I have returned many times to honour the valiant men who died...every man who set foot on Omaha Beach was a hero.