Tom Cotton Quotes

Everything starts and finishes with the soldier.

No sir, anybody who went out and got into the front line trenches to fight for liberty was a goddamn fool and the guy who got him there was a liar.

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

This conflict is one thing I've been waiting for. I'm well and strong and young - young enough to go to the front. If I can't be a soldier, I'll help soldiers.

I told the stories of the soldiers who don’t get a vote on whether or not they are on the battlefield.

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

For a soldier I enlisted, to grow great in fame. And be shot at for sixpence a day.

War was a way of life for Americans in the early forties. Heroism was expected.

Young people are so brave when they go to fight.

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.

From the bitter cold winter at Valley Forge, to the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq, our soldiers have courageously answered when called, gone where ordered, and defended our nation with honor.

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

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

This year's Veterans Day celebration is especially significant as our country remains committed to fighting the War on Terror and as brave men and women are heroically defending our homeland.

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.

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

I'm glad I never went to war.

Dad entered the Second World War like any other man, trying to do the right thing.

Each had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their duty.

Sacrifice is going to war for your country. Sacrifice is a brave young man being blown up by a landmine in Afghanistan.

They refused to be servants of kings, and were never ruled by any. But when they were called on for help in war, they responded gladly.

I speak for a nation which, more than any other, has fought and bled.

Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valor, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for us to perish in battle than to look upon the outrage of our nation ...

Men go to war for fear, honor or interest.

They serve so that we don't have to. They offer to give up their lives so that we can be free. It is, remarkably, their gift to us. And all they ask for in return is that we never send them into harm's way unless it is absolutely necessary. Will they ever trust us again?