Lucy McBath Quotes

Through the centuries, over 1.2 million brave men and women have given their lives for our nation.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

Remembering servicemen and women who lost their lives for their country is not about you. It is not about your rights or what you believe in. It is about respect.

We should never forget those on whose shoulders we stand and those who paid the supreme price for freedom.

Those whose lives were lost on September 11 will remain in our thoughts and prayers forever.

How happy I am to go to the front at last. To do my bit. To prove with my life what I think I feel.

Over all our happy country - over all our Nation spread, Is a band of noble heroes - is our Army of the Dead.

We must never forget or diminish the sacrifices of those who gave everything for this nation.

America's Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world.

The true legacy of 9-11 cannot be found among political leaders of the day, but in the citizen soldiers and public safety personnel who answered that day with courage and selflessness.

The men and women who serve this great nation, whether they are stationed in Iraq, Fort Riley, or the Korean Peninsula, or they serve us at home as our community first responders, serve because they believe in America.

We will never forget the passengers of Flight 93, who courageously confronted the terrorists, defeating another planned attack on America. They are the heroes for our times.

We reserve our deepest respect and admiration for those who volunteer for service and give their lives to help keep our nation secure.

We commit our lives to serving intangibles, swearing oaths to a piece of parchment or saluting an expanse of cloth decorated with stars and stripes. We understand symbolism because symbolism is what in large measure compiles us to do a job that might result in our demise.

As so often before on the courage and determination of British men and women serving our country the fate of many nations rest.

I gave my life for freedom--This I know; For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Who builds with sweat, defends with blood.

Where could death have found him but at the post of duty.

When you go home, tell them of us and say, “For tomorrow these gave their today.”

I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor provisions; I offer hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country in his heart and not with his lips only, follow me.

A man's best gift to his country—his life's blood.

America is unique in the history of the world. During this last century, there was only one nation that laid down hundreds of thousands of lives of its own sons and daughters and asked for nothing for itself …. America is unique. You took no land from the Germans, no land from the Japanese. All you asked for was enough land to bury your dead.

Our only way to repel the vicious attack on our land and restore our honor and glory is to sacrifice our souls, our money, our time, our lives and anything else for the sake of our noble cause

Blessed is that country whose soldiers fight for it and are willing to give the best they have, the best that any man has, their own lives, to preserve it, because they love it. Such an army the United States has always commanded in every crisis of its history.

More than a million Americans have died in our wars—each one much loved by someone.