Ming-Na Wen Quotes

It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced.

Young people are so brave when they go to fight.

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.

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.

The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.

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

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

Any man and woman, and I've been on the record, any man or woman who wears the uniform and serves this country is a hero. I've said that repeatedly at all the town halls I've had.

To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.

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

Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.

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

These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero.

They never fail who die in a great cause.

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.

September 11th has produced only miniature heroes because our culture has freed itself from many of the old, dangerous, elitist fantasies of heroism... But in so doing, we have not only tamed and diminished heroes. We have risked taming and diminishing ourselves.

Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.

The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.

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

A short, glorious life in service of a greater good - say, the life of the Spartans at Thermopylae, or the pilots in the Battle of Britain, of whom Winston Churchill said 'Never have so many owed so much to so few,' - that is worth praising. But for glory alone? I think not.

For a season, a gifted speaker can inspire with his words, but for a lifetime John McCain has inspired with his deeds.