Louisa May Alcott Quotes

I should not care to live half-frozen in a trench, up to my middle in water, for three or four months, because someone in authority said I ought to shoot Germans. But if I were a Frenchman I should do it, because I would have been accustomed to the idea by my compulsory military service.

I would like to have had that experience of combat. I would have liked to.

I wanted to serve. It was Desert Storm. I thought, 'I was a rich kid, and America's been good to me.'

You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end.

No one hates war like a soldier hates war.

I hated the draft, but at the same time, it's something that made every American take war seriously.

Washington has thrown their soldiers on the fire.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace.

I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war.

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

I'm glad I never went to war.

The accounting of the sacrifice is, more than anything else, the attitude toward war memorials in our time.

You know, I'm pro-troops, but I'm not pro-war.

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.

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.

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'm a lucky boy! I could be holding a gun in Afghanistan. There's boys out there doing what they've got to do, and there's people digging holes, and there's people driving buses. And there's nothing wrong with that.

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

I have no animosity towards those who object to the war. Regardless of which side of the fence you're on, just give a moment of thanks to the hundreds of thousands of our forefathers who gave themselves so we can live in a world where we can do this.

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.

You are fit for something better than ... cannon fodder.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can.

Your King and Country need you.