Anonymous Quotes

You are fit for something better than ... cannon fodder.

Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.

Everything starts and finishes with the soldier.

Men go to war for fear, honor or interest.

No sir, anybody who went out and got into the front line trenches to fight for liberty was a goddamn fool and the guy who got him there was a liar.

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

In war, it feels like everything you're doing is more important because you're in the proximity of violence and death, and that proximity changes your relationship to America because it changes the way you see the world.

Surviving is the only glory in war.

Sacrifice is going to war for your country. Sacrifice is a brave young man being blown up by a landmine in Afghanistan.

Atheists in foxholes, some say they are myths, Creations of the mind who just don't exist. Yet, they answered the call to defend, with great pride. With reason their watchword, they bled and they died.

I told the stories of the soldiers who don’t get a vote on whether or not they are on the battlefield.

I gave my life for freedom--This I know; For those who bade me fight had told me so.

They serve so that we don't have to. They offer to give up their lives so that we can be free. It is, remarkably, their gift to us. And all they ask for in return is that we never send them into harm's way unless it is absolutely necessary. Will they ever trust us again?

When Nature gives a young man no other utilizable faculty, she must be understood as intending him for a soldier.

I do not want to send anybody else's child to war.

I joined the army after 9/11, after the Iraq war was started. I joined in part because I wanted to go fight on the front lines.

I've been to war, and I know the consequences and sacrifice it takes. If we must fight, we fight to win.

You know, I had gone to war.

Young people are so brave when they go to fight.

As a combat veteran, I know the cost of war.

I served my country in uniform for 26 years.

No one hates war like a soldier hates war.

Revenge by young men is considered gain, even at the cost of their own lives, but old men who stay at home in times of war, and mothers who have sons to lose, know better.

I wanted to join the Army the sign said 'Be All That You Can Be', they told me it wasn't enough.

As young West Point cadets, our motto was 'duty, honor, country.' But it was in the field, from the rice paddies of Southeast Asia to the sands of the Middle East, that I learned that motto's fullest meaning. There I saw gallant young Americans of every race, creed and background fight, and sometimes die, for 'duty, honor, and their country.'