Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes

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.

Young people are so brave when they go to fight.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

Any man and woman, and I've been on the record, any man or woman who wears the uniform and serves this country is a hero. I've said that repeatedly at all the town halls I've had.

Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.

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

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.

The men and women who serve in our military have won for us every hour we live in freedom, sometimes at the expense of the very hours of the lifetimes they had hoped to live.

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.

The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.

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

Battle is the soldier's vital breath! Peace turns him into a stooping asthmatic. War makes him a whole man again, and gives him the heart, strength, and vigor of a hero.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

I am not ordering you to fight for your country. I am ordering you to die for your country!

I can't spare this man—he fights.

Send me six hundred men who know how to die

I am not a hero but the brave men who died deserved this honor.

When you think about those of us that live the life that we want to live, we can thank absolutely and completely our men and women in uniform. Because if it were not for them, we wouldn't enjoy the freedoms that we have.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

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

Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America's servicemen and women.

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

A short, glorious life in service of a greater good - say, the life of the Spartans at Thermopylae, or the pilots in the Battle of Britain, of whom Winston Churchill said 'Never have so many owed so much to so few,' - that is worth praising. But for glory alone? I think not.

This year's Veterans Day celebration is especially significant as our country remains committed to fighting the War on Terror and as brave men and women are heroically defending our homeland.