Chris Hayes Quotes

I am the living death, a Memorial Day on wheels. I am your Yankee Doodle Dandy, your John Wayne come home, your Fourth of July firecracker exploding in the grave.

I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war.

My church has an historical emphasis on peace, but we can't enjoy peace without honoring the blood our soldiers shed for it.

More than a million Americans have died in our wars—each one much loved by someone.

My message was one of death for young men. How odd it is to applaud that.

I have returned many times to honour the valiant men who died...every man who set foot on Omaha Beach was a hero.

I'm interested in wartime stories, as I think it's important to remember what the soldiers went through.

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

The sense of war, the extraordinary bravery of the Allied armies, the numbers, the losses, the real suffering that disappears in time and commemorative oratory, are not marked out in any red guidebook of the emotions, but they are present if you look.

The entire deaths of Vietnam died in vain. And they're dying in vain right this very second. And you know what's worse than a soldier dying in vain? It's more soldiers dying in vain. That's what's worse.

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

I was only a gun captain on the battleship Alabama for 34 months. People have called me a hero for that, but I'll tell you this - heroes don't come home. Survivors come home.

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.

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.

It is heroic to prepare for war with a tyrant power. Patriots will always win the admiration of mankind for daring to meet the bloodshed of battle for their country's liberty. But the patriot who is willing to go to that sacrifice will be the first to condemn the aimless and secret shedding of blood in time of peace.

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.

Every veteran is a hero.

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

We have long honored those who gave their lives during the unfortunate reality of war.

For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced. Americans have rightfully noted the honor and nobility of courage under hostile fire and thanked those who perished in their defense.

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

I have gone through so many examinations of what a hero is, between the World War II stuff and the astronaut stuff.