Carol Vorderman Quotes

Americans, particularly after World War II, tended to romanticize war because in World War II our cause was the cause of humanity, and our soldiers brought home glory and victory, and thank God that they did. But it led us to romanticize it to some extent.

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.

We owe our World War II veterans - and all our veterans - a debt we can never fully repay.

In my grandfather's day, there was a different perspective on war and men that went into war; it was such a patriotic act to fight for your country in the Forties.

It is a sacred duty to see that each of our dead comrades is escorted through the pearly gates by a large, a very large number of enemy dead. It is up to us now and here after to produce these escorts for the heroic slain.

The real heroes of WWII never came home.

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.

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.

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

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

As America celebrates Memorial Day, we pay tribute to those who have given their lives in our nation's wars.

What we're doing with Band of Brothers is trying to put it into human terms, so it is not just a flickering, black and white myth on a screen, it is a resonant story. I want the audience to recognize themselves in these men. They're not just mythic heroes.

Both my grandparents were officers in World War Two, and I would be personally offended if somebody distorted their achievements.

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.

For all the failures of naval, air and army defense, the men who died at Pearl Harbor and in the Philippines would not die in vain.

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

After the Second World War, people in Japan no longer died for their country, and even that expression was no longer used.

Dad entered the Second World War like any other man, trying to do the right thing.

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

For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced.

I made 'Saving Private Ryan' for my father. He's the one who filled my head with war stories when I was growing up.

None of the Americans I spoke to want to nominate their sons for the Unknown Soldier.

Some made the ultimate sacrifice. The rest of us were lucky.

You can always hear the people who are willing to sacrifice somebody else's life. They're plenty loud and they talk all the time. You can find them in churches and schools and newspapers and legislatures and congress. That's their business. They sound wonderful. Death before dishonor. This ground sanctified by blood. These men who died so gloriously. They shall not have died in vain. Our noble dead.

The generals were fighting machine guns with the breasts of gallant men.