John M. McHugh Quotes

The middle-class America of my youth was another country.

It is fundamentally wrong—and cowardly—in a democratic society to claim that those who stand between us and a potential enemy should be risking their lives simply because they are ‘following the marketplace’ and the military is their ‘best deal’.

The name 'Fojian' says it all. There was a time when each family had a person in the defence forces.

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

America's Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world.

The simple answer is I'd just be a guy trying to feed my family, like everybody else. The complicated answer is, I think I'd be in some sort of military or government world of some sort.

Spending time with America's soldiers is always inspiring.

The men and women who serve this great nation, whether they are stationed in Iraq, Fort Riley, or the Korean Peninsula, or they serve us at home as our community first responders, serve because they believe in America.

This conflict is one thing I've been waiting for. I'm well and strong and young - young enough to go to the front. If I can't be a soldier, I'll help soldiers.

Of course, for me, having served 22 years in the military and to have the opportunity to continue to serve my country is a great honor and is a privilege. So that's what makes it special each and every day.

I joined the Marines the week I turned 17, and that led to a few experiences that might qualify as adventure - eye of the beholder.

As so often before on the courage and determination of British men and women serving our country the fate of many nations rest.

Nobody wants to go to war, but the burden of service cannot fall only on volunteers who, are attracted to the military for financial reasons.

The native American, like the alien immigrant, conceives the better future which awaits himself and other men in America as fundamentally a future in which economic prosperity will be still more abundant and still more accessible than it has yet been either here or abroad.

... deployed on the sands of Saudi Arabia and facing possible extinction, are young men and women drawn, in the main, from the poorer families of our republic.

All I would say is that I have been honored to serve my country for the past three decades and look forward to serving in other ways now that I am retired from the U.S. Army.

Every member of the U.S. Armed Forces knows what they signed up for, and they know what their job is, and they are proud of their job.

I care about America. I care about the people that can't find jobs. I care about my 20 grandkids and what kind of America they are going to have.

In the Marine Corps, we're taught to put America above ourselves.

I am proud of all Army personnel serving in Siachen who are leaving no stone unturned to defend our motherland.

My mother served in the Armed Forces.

Our heroes in the armed forces and our first responders are all essential to the freedom and safety of our great nation.

I can say with pride that I have a brother who served with distinction in the Indian Army.

I have respect for anybody that has to go and do whatever they have to do to protect their country.

Our veterans have already given everything they have to support and defend our nation - some of them sacrificing life and limb.