Harold MacMillan Quotes

Registration is a World War II response, and we need a 1980 solution.

For me, it's an honor for the military to ask me to go to Iraq, Afghanistan, or GITMO. I'm happy to go.

But I felt it necessary to be part of the war effort and I enlisted in the Navy to be a flyer.

You'd be surprised how many kids and young people come to the website and send me email that they are actually going into the Marine Corp because of something that I said or did.

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.

It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.

Washington crossed the Delaware to win our freedom : we cross oceans to keep it : Buy war stamps & bonds

To enable our country to organize more effectively its military resources in the present great struggle for the cause of civilization, I have, acting on the advice of my Ministers, deemed it necessary to enroll every able-bodied man between the ages of eighteen and forty-one

Your King and Country need you.

I want you for US Army

Shall This Continue? Join the Navy.

It is fundamentally wrong—and cowardly—in a democratic society to claim that those who stand between us and a potential enemy should be risking their lives simply because they are ‘following the marketplace’ and the military is their ‘best deal’.

The say that “freedom is not free.” Today we have put a significant down payment on liberty.

Pittsburgh has long sent more than our fair share of young people to defend this country, and our universities are already building the cyber-security workforce of the future. But the training can start earlier, and there is no better group of young people to help us get there than the students who choose JROTC.

I dreamed even after I laid down my rifle I would continue to uphold my oath to defend the Constitution.

The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one’s country

What could I do but go with them Civil War soldiers, or work for them and my country? The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.

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

It's my commitment to the nation's security, it's my commitment to the men and women in uniform that drives me. Not anything else.

I believe in national service, where you can join AmeriCorps or the military.

Our men and women in uniform are owed the right to protect themselves and others while in service of our country.

The name 'Fojian' says it all. There was a time when each family had a person in the defence forces.

The day after high school, I was off to basic training at the Great Lakes Naval Station. You gotta understand, we didn't care about sports. We wanted to win the war. We wanted to win the war! And at the time, we didn't know if we would.

A lot of my father's family in Canada volunteered in the First World War because they saw it as a war that was defending the mother country.

Our service men and women sacrifice so much to protect our country, our citizens, and our freedoms. My father, brother, and nephew all served this nation in uniform, and I am committed to the unwavering support of those who defend this nation and our values.