Georges Clemenceau Quotes

Young people are so brave when they go to fight.

I long to be in the Field again, doing my part to keep the old flag up, with all its stars.

Glorious shall be the battle when the time comes to fight for our people and our race.

Surviving is the only glory in war.

Three thousand miles from home an American army is fighting for you. Everything you hold dear is at stake.

Blessed is that country whose soldiers fight for it and are willing to give the best they have, the best that any man has, their own lives, to preserve it, because they love it. Such an army the United States has always commanded in every crisis of its history.

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

We ask our men and our women to go overseas to fight for our country and sacrifice so much for this great country so that we can be the land of the free, the land of the brave.

You know, I had gone to war.

Being a soldier, fighting for this country, is neither Republican nor Democrat.

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.

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.

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

There's a lot of people that fought for their country and that's not something to be taken lightly. They gave their life, everything they had, they gave their lives, to give us what we have. That's why I'm so passionate about my beliefs - because someone died.

As young West Point cadets, our motto was 'duty, honor, country.' But it was in the field, from the rice paddies of Southeast Asia to the sands of the Middle East, that I learned that motto's fullest meaning. There I saw gallant young Americans of every race, creed and background fight, and sometimes die, for 'duty, honor, and their country.'

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

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.

God bless the Union; - it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defence.

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

Everything starts and finishes with the soldier.

America's fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed.

Arise, ye noble citizens, cast out all fear for good or ill, for our brave breasts and arms, shall be the walls that guard Brazil.

Anyone who wants to carry on the war against the outsiders, come with me. I can’t offer you either honours or wages; I offer you hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Anyone who loves his country, follow me.

I gave my life for freedom--This I know; For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Who builds with sweat, defends with blood.