Quotes About Courage

It was close; but that's the way it is in war. You win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.

I will stand off the forces of the entire country here... and die a resplendent death.

Some day I'd like to cover a war in a country as ugly as war itself.

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

War is not won by victory.

I have been at war from the beginning. I've never looked back before. I've never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. To look back is to relax one's vigil.

If they wish to fight today, let them come like men.

Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars.

Until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared

I was afraid the fire would not be hot enough for me to distinguish myself.

No sane man is unafraid in battle, but discipline produces in him a form of vicarious courage.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo, The hundred & fifty are dumb yet at Alamo.

I had an attack of the gout two days before pulling out, and I went limping off to the war instead of coming limping back from it.

Who are you to end a war? I am here to tell you - who are you not to?

The root of war is fear.

Be of good courage, my son, and remember that the best men always make themselves.

For a time, the Flying Tigers provided the only victories against the Japanese anywhere in the Far East... This handful of men had shown that the Japanese were not invincible.

You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing!

Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God help me, I do love it so.

Strike up the drum and march courageously.

It is cowardly to commit suicide. The English often kill themselves. It is a malady caused by the humid climate.

It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.

[Peace] cannot be honorable or secure, if the sovereign betrays a pusillanimous aversion to war.