Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

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.

A glorious death is his Who for his country falls.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

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.

I'm looking to be shot any time I step out of my car ... If I die, it will be in a good cause. I've been fighting for America just as much as the soldiers in Vietnam.

They died to save their country, and they only saved the world.

The terrorists gave up their lives to kill people. Americans gave up their lives to save people.

It is a sweet and glorious thing to die for one's country. Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.

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

I long to die for such a true cause; I wish to expire on the bed of glory; I wish to perish at my post.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

What is a society without a heroic dimension?

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

The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.

Men, today we die a little.

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

You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero.

The real heroes were my good buddies who died during the battles.

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.

The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head has to bow and the knee has to bend to danger. The soldiers who march back under the triumphal arches are death's deserters.

The world doesn't make any heroes anymore.

I think it is rather heroic to go into a war zone where everyone is trying to kill you, and you have no way of shooting back.

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.