Sam Houston Quotes

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.

Surviving is the only glory in war.

War is fear cloaked in courage.

The generals were fighting machine guns with the breasts of gallant men.

Could anything be more magnificent. Compared to war all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance.

To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the ass.

The sinister nature of the American soil is apparent in places like Gettysburg. Fertilize it with the blood of heros, and it brings forth a frozen-custard stand.

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.

Young people are so brave when they go to fight.

I'm interested in wartime stories, as I think it's important to remember what the soldiers went through.

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.

McCain fought in Vietnam - I think that he has enough civilian blood on his hands.

For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.

I don't concentrate on any one period of history; I like to locate my stories in wildly different eras and places. I seem to be drawn to large, sprawling, uncomfortable swaths of American history, finding embedded within them a tight narrative that involves strife, heroism, and survival under difficult circumstances.

It is heroic to prepare for war with a tyrant power. Patriots will always win the admiration of mankind for daring to meet the bloodshed of battle for their country's liberty. But the patriot who is willing to go to that sacrifice will be the first to condemn the aimless and secret shedding of blood in time of peace.

Going to war was the only unselfish thing I have ever done for humanity.

Revenge by young men is considered gain, even at the cost of their own lives, but old men who stay at home in times of war, and mothers who have sons to lose, know better.

And the blood of brave men was shed like unto the shedding of rain from a black cloud.

We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We're not a pacific people.

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

Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.

Israel should not feel satisfaction at my son's death, for he died on the battlefield, facing the conquerors as he wished, with a gun in his hand.

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

The heroes of Flight 93 won the first battle in the War on Terror, and they should never be forgotten.

They are more than men at the outset of their battles; at the end they are less than the women.