Horatio Nelson Quotes

The destroyer Cork, like the useful hero for whom it is named, will be game to the last.

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

Surviving is the only glory in war.

If I was a soldier going to war, I'd be pretty scared the night before a battle. It's a scary thing. And I want my readers to feel that fear as they turn the page.

I can't spare this man—he fights.

Put the army in the face of death where they cannot escape and they will do heroic things to win.

To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the ass.

Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.

How many times did someone have to run in front of a machine gun before it became an act of cowardice?

Young people are so brave when they go to fight.

War is an arena for the display of courage and virtue. Or war is politics by other means. War is a quasi-mystical experience where you get in touch with the real. There are millions of narratives we impose to try to make sense of war.

It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

To be able to live and train in Iraq under these circumstances you need to be brave.

People do not want words - they want the sound of battle - the battle of destiny.

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

To save all we must risk all.

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

There's no better way to test a person than to put them in the middle of a war. That's clearly going to show what kind of a character you're telling a story about.

We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly.

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.

The real heroes were my good buddies who died during the battles.

What shall I say further? Shall I not stop short and leave to your imaginations to portray the tragic deeds of war? Is it not enough that I here leave it even to unexperience to fancy the hardships, the anxieties, the dangers, even of the best life of a soldier?

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

In war, people find themselves in extraordinary circumstances, and in those circumstances, they act in extraordinary ways. In war, you see people at their very best and their very worst, acting in ways you could never imagine. War is human drama at its most epic and most intense.