Quotes About Courage

Every great historic change has been based on nonconformity, has been bought either with the blood or with the reputation of nonconformists.

God has aroused the spirit of kings and princes to root up from the earth the enemies of the Christian name. Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of Christ.

As a civilian during the Second War, I was exposed to danger in circumstances which removed any distinction between the man in and the man out of uniform.

In war the first principle is to disobey orders. Any fool can obey orders!

Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened.

If the entire week is a battlefield, reading the Bible is sort of like that parachute with the box of reserves that come in the middle of the war: food and water and the toothbrush and toilet paper.

War makes monsters out of men.

Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful stroke!

Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.

Let me say no danger and no hardship ever makes me wish to get back to that college life again.

We need not risk our national honor to prevail in this or any war.

When the war broke out I decided I would be very patriotic. Standing my full height. I presented myself to the Wacs and the to the Waves. And I was rejected - I was an inch too tall.

Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him.

The man who fears war and squats opposing My words for stour, hath no blood of crimson But is fit only to rot in womanish peace

Stand by me, my brave grenadiers!

War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

Most wars are fought for greed, but we are luckier here we fight for our lives and the lives of the people we love.

We and the world, my children, will always be at war. Retreat is impossible. Arm yourselves.

Norway was occupied by the Germans in the Second World War, and I've met a lot of people who had to live through that occupation in varying degrees.

Many a man looking death, or simply compromise, in the face has been spared the label coward because his faith was bolstered by the memory of heroes who walked before him.

No one hates war like a soldier hates war.

The war against terrorism is one we must win.

It is soldiers who pay most of the human cost. In war it is extraordinary how it all comes down to the character of one man.

There is no place for innocence on the battlefield.