Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.

They serve so that we don't have to. They offer to give up their lives so that we can be free. It is, remarkably, their gift to us. And all they ask for in return is that we never send them into harm's way unless it is absolutely necessary. Will they ever trust us again?

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.

Our veterans accepted the responsibility to defend America and uphold our values when duty called.

When Nature gives a young man no other utilizable faculty, she must be understood as intending him for a soldier.

If I have got to be a soldier, I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable.

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.

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

Although the war in which you fought took place more than half-a-century ago, your courage, your sacrifice and your patriotism reaches through the decades and inspires us today.

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.

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.

There is no greater call to service than that of our brave men and women who serve our country in combat across the globe.

Everything starts and finishes with the soldier.

America's fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed.

Dad entered the Second World War like any other man, trying to do the right thing.

Atheists in foxholes, some say they are myths, Creations of the mind who just don't exist. Yet, they answered the call to defend, with great pride. With reason their watchword, they bled and they died.

I told the stories of the soldiers who don’t get a vote on whether or not they are on the battlefield.

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

Join the Army, see the world, meet interesting people—and kill them.

They refused to be servants of kings, and were never ruled by any. But when they were called on for help in war, they responded gladly.

You are fit for something better than ... cannon fodder.

Far, dearer, the grave or the prison, Illumed by one patriot name, Than the trophies of all who have risen On liberty's ruins to fame.

For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' “Chuck him out, the brute!” But it's “Saviour of 'is country” when the guns begin to shoot.

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.

For a soldier I enlisted, to grow great in fame. And be shot at for sixpence a day.