Quotes About Valor

"Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag," she said.

Martyrdom - the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

They fought together as brothers in arms; they died together and now they sleep side by side. To them we have a solemn obligation.

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

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

Nobody dislikes war more than warriors.

Hate war, but love the American Warrior.

One moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace.

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

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

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

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.

We'll make a bunker hill of it.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.

War is a terrible trade. But when the cause is just, the smell of gunpowder is sweet.

Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter.

Happy are men who yet before they are killed Can let their veins run cold.

I know the horrors of war: no gains can compensate for the losses it brings.

I have returned many times to honour the valiant men who died...every man who set foot on Omaha Beach was a hero.

All generals, officers, and soldiers who capitulate in battle to save their own lives should be decimated.

There are times when a corps commander's life does not count.

War spares not the brave, but the cowardly.