Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Young people are so brave when they go to fight.

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

I am putting on the uniform, and I shall take it off only in death or victory.

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.

The men and women who serve this great nation, whether they are stationed in Iraq, Fort Riley, or the Korean Peninsula, or they serve us at home as our community first responders, serve because they believe in America.

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

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

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

When Nature gives a young man no other utilizable faculty, she must be understood as intending him for a soldier.

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

We learned that whether or not you support the war, you honor the soldiers that fight.

Veterans have stood up for us.

Sure, there's pressure when you have one dart at double top when there's a world 'championship to be won, but real 'pressure is what our troops are doing in 'Afghanistan.

How happy I am to go to the front at last. To do my bit. To prove with my life what I think I feel.

If I have got to be a soldier, I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable.

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

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

Every pioneer and musician who could carry a musket went into the ranks. Even the sick and foot-sore, who could not keep up in the march, came up as soon as they could find their regiments, and took their places in line of battle, while it was battle, indeed.

I admire the military. I guess in a world of villains and heroes, they're my heroes. Their dedication, their commitment, their discipline, their code of ethics.

The selfless actions of these heroes have removed them from their families, businesses and homeland to fight, so that others may experience the liberty awaiting our troops upon safe return to America.

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.'

'The Red' delivers intense action, leavened by a genuinely sympathetic portrait of soldiers caught up in battles they never chose.

I have so much respect for people in the service. The mental strength it takes to do what they do is unbelievable.

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

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.