Vladimir Putin Quotes

When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.

I have fought for many years. I have killed many men. I have never seen a foreigner die.

Do not survive to suffer the dishonor of capture.

There are only two ways to come back from the battlefield: With the head of an enemy or without your own.

In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.

Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell, no!

For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.

For me, at least, Vietnam was partly love. With each step, each light-year of a second, a foot soldier is always almost dead, or so it feels, and in such circumstances, you can't help but love.

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

I have no regrets. I think we did right, and we couldn't have done differently. In wartime, it was a desperate time .... When you are in a war to the death, I don't think you stand around and ask, is it right?

In war there is no second prize for the runner-up.

In war you don’t have to be nice, you just have to be right.

Greece expects you not merely to die for her, for that is little, indeed; she expects you to conquer. That is why each one of you, even in dying, should be possessed by one thought alone – how to conserve your strength to the last so that those who survive may conquer.

D-Day will be a reminder of what can be accomplished when allies work together and when everyone understands what’s at stake.

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

As a boy I stood at the doorway of our hiding place in Budapest and watched Russian troops fight house by house to liberate the city and therefore rescue us from certain death.

When you're at war you do what it takes to win.

Our World War II generation met the challenges of their time.

In war, everything changes. You are very selective of what you do because everything you do can be the last thing you do in your life.

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.

We will fight a battle, and then we will rest. Alive or dead, we'll rest." - Jon Snow

We are marking the anniversary of the Arctic convoys.We really do consider members of the Arctic convoy to be heroes. This is true. I am not saying this as a fashion of speech.

At war a Russian man puts on a white shirt. He may live in sin, but he dies like a saint.

When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is.

There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But the rows were like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, so after all it wasn't a forest but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.