Gautham Menon Quotes

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

I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.

One percent of our country is fighting to protect the other 99 percent.

Young people are so brave when they go to fight.

I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero. The minute anybody presumes that they are heroes, they get their boots taken away from them and buried in the sand.

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

Our nation's military and law enforcement personal work hard to protect us. We must thank them for their continued vigilance. Without their sacrifice we would less capable of protecting our nation.

Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage.

But protagonists are protagonists and heroes are heroes.

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place - police, firefighters and members of our armed forces.

What firefighters and people in our military and cops do is separate from what the rest of us do; basically these people say, 'I'm going to protect all these strangers.'

It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

Everything starts and finishes with the soldier.

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

He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done.

Every man among you is a free will volunteer. Not one has been invited. No more typical are made of free man who ever marched to meet an enemy.

I can't spare this man—he fights.

If there was no war, the young men felt that they were denied manhood.

This idle complaining, wishing, and lamenting, and boasting will answer no end. Something must be done! Must be done by you! Therefore instead of assuming the state of patriots and heroes at home, TO ARMS! and away to the field and prove your pretensions sincere. Let the thunder of this imprecation rouse you out of your ease and security...

No doubt Jean Bart does not talk like you, but who of you could act like Jean Bart?

I'm a patriot. I admire our military, their character, code of honor, belief systems.

That is why every military officer fights - so that there may be peace.

I respect and admire what cops do.

Over the course of my career in law enforcement, I have witnessed over and over again the selflessness and sacrifice of law enforcement who lay their lives on the line every day to protect people who they will never meet and people who will never know their names.