Quotes About Valor

I would have rather been dead and laying on the battlefield dead than to find out later on that one of my men were killed and didn't have me, their medic, to somehow get them out of the danger and into the safety of the perimeter.

I have such a deeper respect for firemen knowing how much they get paid and how much they put themselves on the line.

I don't get so much credit for my defense.

Courage? Well, that's a difficult quality to define. If a man has never known fear can you call him courageous?

Sometimes freedom demands a measure of sacrifice.

This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it.

Never before in the history of warfare have so few been commanded by so many.

An officer who lost an eye or a limb would receive a year's pay and medical expenses; the widows of officers killed in action would also get a year's pay, plus another third for each child. Those who died of their wounds within six months were "deemed slain in battle." No bonuses were announced for enlisted men.

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CASABLANCA provided Vichy with its best anchorage south of Toulon, and the French navy had chosen to defend the Moroccan port with valor worthy of a better cause.

Allen left the academy, graduated from Catholic University, and took a commission in 1912. Wounded at Saint-Mihiel in 1918 and carried from the field on a stretcher, he regained consciousness, ripped off the first-aid tag, and dashed back to rally his men. The next bullet drilled him through the jaw, right to left, but not before he had broken his fist on a German machine-gunner's head.

A soldier doesn't fight to save suffering humanity or any other nonsense. He fights to prove that his unit is the best in the Army and that he has as much guts as anybody else in the unit.

West Virginia is among the nation's leaders in military service, in killed in action, in medals for valor.

The guy had guts—I had to give him that. Later on I was hoping for a first-hand look at them.

Farewell to the Highlands, farewell to the North,The birthplace of valor, the country of worth!Wherever I wander, wherever I rove,The hills of the Highlands for ever I love.

Let us drink to pointless heroism.

he possessed for attractive form of courage: bravery of a nervous man. After all, any rash fool can be a hero if he sets no value on his life or hasn't the wit to appreciate the danger. But to understand the risks, perhaps even to flinch at first, but then summon the strength to face them down--that is my opinion is the most commendable for of value...

I doubt they'd kill me. And if they did—well, what does it matter? I'm old, and there could be no better death than in defence of freedom.

He let them be heroes.

Behind him, Birgitte Silverbow stood over her corpse, one foot to either side of the headless body.

No todas las personas podían ser igualmente valientes, pero la cobardía era despreciable.

Give me enough medals and I'll win you any war.

I concluded by saying that the SEALs in that room truly gave meaning to George Orwell's observation that people sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. page 546

He was a foe man worthy of her steel.