Quotes About Courage

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Hardy, I do believe they have done it at last... my backbone is shot through.

I know of nothing more exciting than war.

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

My generation has failed miserably. We've failed because of lack of courage and vision. It requires more courage to keep the peace than to go to war.

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

General, unless he offers us honorable terms, come back and let us fight it out!

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

I am well versed in reading the pages of war.

The more comfort the less courage there is.

World War II was a must win.

There's only one way for a professional soldier to die. That's from the last bullet of the last battle of the last war.

War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all.

We may be annihilated, but we cannot be conquered.

All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys.

To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.

He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.

Is this dying? Is this all? Is this what I feared when I prayed against a hard death? Oh, I can bear this! I can bear this!

In war nothing is impossible, provided you use audacity.

The safety of the country is at stake... We must let ourselves be killed on the spot rather than retreat... No faltering can be tolerated today.

War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.

I have never in my life taken a command into battle and had the slightest desire to come out alive unless I won.

We'll make a bunker hill of it.

I would fight them if they were a million!