Tom Glynn-Carney Quotes

I've always been fascinated by the military, the discipline they have and the sacrifices they make to defend the country. It's something I've always been interested in.

I loved the Army as an institution and loathed every single thing it required me to do.

I loved the bootcamp and the training. It was the actual Navy and the structure after it that I realized wasn't for me because they're building soldiers. It's a system, and you can't really stick out; you can't be the oddball out in the military.

But no one told me that when you're in the military, they own you.

Being a person of the armed forces is not easy. Performing it is also not easy. There is a sense of discipline and body language that you need to have throughout.

If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.

Yeah, September 11 happened and all my friends were like, 'Let's join the military!' and I was the only one who actually did.

Well, I enjoy sharing in the dangers that we ask our men and women in uniform to share in almost every day.

I joined the army as a private. I was offered a rank at that time, but I refused. I preferred to remain a private. First of all, I wasn't taken by ranks, and before I knew it, they put me in the most sensitive positions anyway.

My husband may have been in the military, but no one tells me which leader to follow.

I've got to tell you what, the soldier doesn't fight very hard for a leader who is going to shoot him, okay, on his own whim. That's not what military leadership is all about.

There's nothing like being a soldier for confidence or learning your limits or enduring utter humiliation.

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.

There is no room in a soldiers' philosophy for thought, reason, or mercy.

I am now at the head of two thousand and seventy volunteers, the choicest of our citizens, who go at the call of their country to execute the will of the Government; who have no Constitutional scruples, and if the Government orders, will rejoice at the opportunity of placing the American eagle on the ramparts of Mobile, Pensacola and Fort St. Augustine.

You ought to be made to fight. We need regiments of such men as you.

For a soldier I enlisted, to grow great in fame. And be shot at for sixpence a day.

My duty to the army and to the republic whose battles we were waging forbade me assuming a position of seeming hostility to any portion of the brave men under my command.

When my father served in World War II, he wasn't told, 'Go to Europe for four months, for six months, and then you can come back, and there'll be plenty of big bases there for you to serve on, and don't worry about it.'

I've been a soldier too long to refuse to entertain any request from a potential commander in chief.

My wife was as much of a soldier as I was.

It's an extraordinary thing to do, to go into the military and to serve your country.

My dad has been in the military for 35 years. My brother's in the Air Force. I'm familiar with what it's like being in a military family - the unusual traumas you carry around with you.

My dad was a career military man, so I had that kind of discipline and training.

I have dedicated half my life to military service.