Lynsey Addario Quotes

A man will go to war, fight and die for his country. But he won't get a bikini wax.

We have to go in places no body would ever think of going into were it not for the necessities of war.

It's one thing to say you're for the war; it's another thing to send your kid to war - your daughter or your son.

Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.

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

Men go to war for fear, honor or interest.

Blessed is that country whose soldiers fight for it and are willing to give the best they have, the best that any man has, their own lives, to preserve it, because they love it. Such an army the United States has always commanded in every crisis of its history.

Surely no issue unites us more than our appreciation for our military personnel who are bringing aid to devastated countries, defending us against terrorism, and fighting to make a free election possible in Iraq.

When you've married someone who's been at war, there is nothing you can do that compares to that level of selflessness and bravery.

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

I wanted to fight in the Iraq war because I felt like I had an obligation as a human being to help free people from oppression.

Like the American soldiers who went before them, they are putting their lives on the line to protect ours.

I wanted to continue doing my work, but I had to figure out how. And so what I have basically come up with is that I still go to Afghanistan and Iraq and South Sudan and many of these places that are rife with war, but I don't go directly to the front line.

For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.

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

For me, it's an honor for the military to ask me to go to Iraq, Afghanistan, or GITMO. I'm happy to go.

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

In times of war, it is often best to look to our history to see how past generations of Americans dealt with the loss of their countrymen in just causes.

I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was.

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.

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

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.

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

Although the war in which you fought took place more than half-a-century ago, your courage, your sacrifice and your patriotism reaches through the decades and inspires us today.