Charles Wolfe Quotes

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

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

Where valor proudly sleeps.

What is a society without a heroic dimension?

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

A hero is a man who does what he can.

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

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

Yes, young men, Italy owes to you an undertaking which has merited the applause of the universe. You have conquered and you will conquer still, because you are prepared for the tactics that decide the fate of battles.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.

Soldiers willingly, sometimes foolishly, risk their own lives to keep their comrades out of enemy hands.

September 11th has produced only miniature heroes because our culture has freed itself from many of the old, dangerous, elitist fantasies of heroism... But in so doing, we have not only tamed and diminished heroes. We have risked taming and diminishing ourselves.

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough.

I grew up watching 'Braveheart' and 'Gladiator.' Those are my 'Star Wars.' They have values and traits about them that I wish I had.

Give me a character that has an heroic quality, and I'll go there.

I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?

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

But we have been to the Pole and we shall die like gentlemen. I regret only for the women we leave behind.

It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism.

Men who live valiantly and die nobly have a strength and a courage from the eternal Father.

I have so much respect for people in the service. The mental strength it takes to do what they do is unbelievable.