Quotes About Courage

No soldier ever really survives a war.

War is not only a matter of equipment, artillery, group troops or air force; it is largely a matter of spirit, or morale.

There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.

We of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war

I have stood your meanness as long as I intend to. You have played the part of a damn scoundrel, and if you were any part of a man I would slap your jaws and force you to resent it.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

How many things apparently impossible have nevertheless been performed by resolute men who had no alternative but death.

Come on boys! Give them the cold steel! Who will follow me?

Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.

Let no man surrender so long as he is unwounded and can fight.

I had seen the films out of World War II, the great 82nd Airborne, the 101st, and all of those of you in the greatest generation and the service that you had provided.

The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.

I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but by God, they frighten me.

Crossing at a ford occurs often in a man's lifetime. It means setting sail even though your friends stay in harbour, knowing the route, knowing the soundness of your ship and the favour of the day.

I feel my body weakening but my spirit is fine, ready to go to war with devils at the drop of a dime

Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.

Up men to your posts! Don't forget today that you are from old Virginia.

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

Alabama soldiers, all I ask of you is to keep up with the Texans!

Wars are not won by evacuations.

Observe that anyone who dies for his country is a fortunate man, but death takes what it wants, indiscriminately, in peace-time as well as in war. It is better to die with freedom than without it.

Hate war, but love the American Warrior.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.