Nancy Wake Quotes

No two wars are ever the same. Some are just, some are unjust, but the basic commonality shared between them all is that young men and women heeded a call to service, overcame their fear, and fought for their side.

I'm a Vietnam veteran. I was here when there was no public support, not just for the effort in Vietnam, for the mission in Vietnam, but for our men and women in uniform.

Our brave men and women are fighting around the world and they deserve relief.

As a Korean War veteran, I know firsthand and understand the sacrifices made by our men and women in uniform.

In the beginning of the war, Southern women wanted their men to leave - in droves, and as quickly as possible. They were the Confederate Army's most persuasive and effective recruitment officers, shaming anyone who shirked his duty to fight.

That was not what men and women fought for during the war.

I was drafted when I was 17, and I spent two years, and I lost a friend in war.

The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece?

I do not want to send anybody else's child to war.

Some of the best fan mail I get are from our men and women in the military and intelligence communities. They say, 'Boy you do your homework, this is exactly how we're doing it.'

One thing that was amazing about World War II was that everybody signed up for the duration plus six months. Fliers got to leave combat after 25 missions, or 35 missions, but other than that, you were in it. You were part of the great effort, until, oh boy, six months after it was over.

As the daughter of a 25-year veteran of the armed forces, I am incredibly thankful for the sacrifices our women and men have made in Iraq, and continue to make in Afghanistan.

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

If British troops are committed to action, then the nation will, of course, support them. Their courage and skill is not in doubt.

Our men and women in our armed forces are the real heroes in this conflict.

No one hates war like a soldier hates war.

We've got to protect our young men and women and we've got to win that, whatever the cost.

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

We are a nation at war - and we should act like it.

More than 48 million men and women have served America well and faithfully in military uniform.

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

War was my university. Everything has proceeded from there.

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

As a young man, every bone in my body wanted to pick up a machine gun and kill Germans. And yet I had absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly nobody invited me to do the job. But that's what I felt that I was trained to do. Now no part of my upbringing was militaristic.