Heinrich Heine Quotes

The soldier going down and the cause of freedom never dies—immortality is his.

I really do not know whether I deserve that a laurel wreath be laid on my coffin. But you may lay a sword on my coffin, for I was a brave soldier in the war of freedom for mankind.

this battle is going to decide the fate of all America and it is preferable to die on the field of honour than at the hands of our executioners.

How they fought and laid their lives down, For the freedoms they held dear. Solider, red man, settler, preacher, Renegade and pioneer.

Glorious shall be the battle when the time comes to fight for our people and our race.

You know that independence is purchased at the point of the bayonet. Know also that liberty is founded on good faith, and on the laws of honor, and that those who infringe upon these, are your only enemies, amongst whom you will never find Lord Cochrane

All gave some. Some gave all. Some stood true for the red, white and blue. Some had to fall. Some gave all

Anyone who wants to carry on the war against the outsiders, come with me. I can’t offer you either honours or wages; I offer you hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Anyone who loves his country, follow me.

Here's to the red of it, There's not a thread of it, No, not a shred of it, In all the spread of it, From foot to head, But heroes bled for it, Faced steel and lead for it, Precious blood shed for it, Bathing in red.

Send me six hundred men who know how to die

Soldiers, you are going to finish the greatest task which heaven can charge to a man: to save a whole world from slavery... Soldiers, Peru and the whole of America are waiting for you to deliver peace, the child of victory. Even free Europe looks upon you with favor: for the freedom of the New World is the life of the universe.

It is praiseworthy, it is noble and sublime, to avenge Nature when it has been outraged by tyranny. Nothing can compare with the greatness of such action and, even if desolation and death are the reward of such a glorious endeavor, there is no reason to condemn it, for it is not the easily attainable that should be undertaken, but that which justice demands that we do.

We did not win the war with prayers, but with the blood of our soldiers..

I am putting on the uniform, and I shall take it off only in death or victory.

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.

From the bitter cold winter at Valley Forge, to the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq, our soldiers have courageously answered when called, gone where ordered, and defended our nation with honor.

The men and women who serve in our military have won for us every hour we live in freedom, sometimes at the expense of the very hours of the lifetimes they had hoped to live.

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.

I think of all the guys that strap a gun on their backs and head to Afghanistan and Iraq to keep us free and safe and maintain what America has stood for.

A short, glorious life in service of a greater good - say, the life of the Spartans at Thermopylae, or the pilots in the Battle of Britain, of whom Winston Churchill said 'Never have so many owed so much to so few,' - that is worth praising. But for glory alone? I think not.

I have entered the field to die, if need be, for this government, and never expect to return to peaceful pursuits until the object of this war of preservation has become a fact established.

With courage and character, American soldiers continue to put themselves on the line to defend our freedom, and so many have paid the ultimate sacrifice.

There's a lot of people that fought for their country and that's not something to be taken lightly. They gave their life, everything they had, they gave their lives, to give us what we have. That's why I'm so passionate about my beliefs - because someone died.

The selfless actions of these heroes have removed them from their families, businesses and homeland to fight, so that others may experience the liberty awaiting our troops upon safe return to America.