Milos Forman Quotes

Come on, fire bullets at me. I am prepared to die for the sake of the people.

It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

Battle is the soldier's vital breath! Peace turns him into a stooping asthmatic. War makes him a whole man again, and gives him the heart, strength, and vigor of a hero.

One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to fight for freedom.

Up rose old Barbara Frietchie then, Bowed with her fourscore years and ten; Bravest of all in Frederick town, She took up the flag the men hauled down; In her attic-window the staff she set, To show that one heart was loyal yet. Up the street came the rebel tread, Stonewall Jackson riding ahead. Under his slouched hat left and right He glanced: the old flag met his sight. "Halt!"—the dust-brown ranks stood fast. "Fire!"—out blazed the rifle-blast.  It shivered the window, pane and sash; It rent the banner with seam and gash. Quick, as it fell, from the broken staff Dame Barbara snatched the silken scarf; She leaned far out on the window-sill, And shook it forth with a royal will. "Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag," she said.

To fight the United States is like fighting the whole world. But it has been decided. So I will fight the best I can.

I will climb the gallows gladly and show to the world as to how bravely the revolutionaries can sacrifice themselves for the cause.

You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery. If nothing in life is worth dying for, when did this begin-just in the face of this enemy? Or should Moses have told the children of Israel to live in slavery under the pharaohs? Should Christ have refused the cross? Should the patriots at Concord Bridge have thrown down their guns and refused to fire the shot heard 'round the world? The martyrs of history were not fools, and our honored dead who gave their lives to stop the advance of the Nazis didn't die in vain.

Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.

For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.

I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero. The minute anybody presumes that they are heroes, they get their boots taken away from them and buried in the sand.

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.

I was in uniform for four years, and I know that heroism doesn't occur from taking orders, but rather from people who through their own willpower and strength are willing to sacrifice their lives for an idea.

It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

I have gone through so many examinations of what a hero is, between the World War II stuff and the astronaut stuff.

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

Our officers and men behaved like men who are determined to be free.

I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me.

War is fear cloaked in courage.

We prefer death, martyrdom, and the graveyards of martyrs than to enjoy the guarantees and protection of America

When you fight an invader by whatever means available to you, you are not a terrorist, you are a hero.

We shall not flag nor fail. We shall go on to the end. …. We shall fight on the beaches … we shall fight in the fields and in the streets … we shall never surrender.

The people's flag is deepest red; It shrouded oft our martyred dead .... Then raise the scarlet standard high. Within its shade we'll live or die. Tho' cowards flinch and traitors sneer, We'll keep the red flag flying here.