Abraham Lincoln Quotes

There's nothing but brutality and bravery or cowardice that comes out of war. That's pretty much it.

As a combat veteran, I know the cost of war.

When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.

For me, at least, Vietnam was partly love. With each step, each light-year of a second, a foot soldier is always almost dead, or so it feels, and in such circumstances, you can't help but love.

War - the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.

'The Red' delivers intense action, leavened by a genuinely sympathetic portrait of soldiers caught up in battles they never chose.

In war, it feels like everything you're doing is more important because you're in the proximity of violence and death, and that proximity changes your relationship to America because it changes the way you see the world.

Surviving is the only glory in war.

Nobody hates a war more than soldiers who have been through it.

War is an arena for the display of courage and virtue. Or war is politics by other means. War is a quasi-mystical experience where you get in touch with the real. There are millions of narratives we impose to try to make sense of war.

I think it is a mistake to focus - as we most often do - only on the sacrifice of life that war requires. War also requires that we sacrifice our normal unwillingness to kill.

No one hates war like a soldier hates war.

We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly.

In war, people find themselves in extraordinary circumstances, and in those circumstances, they act in extraordinary ways. In war, you see people at their very best and their very worst, acting in ways you could never imagine. War is human drama at its most epic and most intense.

I have been through two wars in my 24 years, and I know what it's like to be without anything, to see the bombs flying above your head.

War taught me that not everything is glamorous.

War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.

There's no such thing as a crowded battlefield. Battlefields are lonely places.

War is fear cloaked in courage.

Nothing like war reveals man in the same strength—their courage, their stupidity, their fears, their hopes, their ugliness ….

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

Men go to war for fear, honor or interest.

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

I've never been to war, and I would never presume to fully understand the horrors that that kind of experience can impart.

In war, everything changes. You are very selective of what you do because everything you do can be the last thing you do in your life.