William H. McRaven Quotes

One percent of our country is fighting to protect the other 99 percent.

I appreciate our men and women in uniform so much. They are the real heroes. I can't fathom the selflessness involved in serving our country.

We ask our brave men and women in uniform to risk everything to protect us.

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.

When you think about those of us that live the life that we want to live, we can thank absolutely and completely our men and women in uniform. Because if it were not for them, we wouldn't enjoy the freedoms that we have.

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

I have so much respect for people in the service. The mental strength it takes to do what they do is unbelievable.

I was in uniform for four years, and I know that heroism doesn't occur from taking orders, but rather from people who through their own willpower and strength are willing to sacrifice their lives for an idea.

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.

My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place - police, firefighters and members of our armed forces.

Veterans have stood up for us.

Soldiers are the biggest heroes. No one can be a bigger hero than them.

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

The men and women who serve in the armed forces are great role models.

So often public service comes with sacrifice. A sacrifice that our men and women in uniform make each day.

How happy I am to go to the front at last. To do my bit. To prove with my life what I think I feel.

Young people are so brave when they go to fight.

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

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.

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

The selfless actions of these heroes have removed them from their families, businesses and homeland to fight, so that others may experience the liberty awaiting our troops upon safe return to America.

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.'

Twenty-five million veterans are living among us today. These men and women selflessly set aside their civilian lives to put on the uniform and serve us.

What firefighters and people in our military and cops do is separate from what the rest of us do; basically these people say, 'I'm going to protect all these strangers.'