Robert Palmer Quotes

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

Love can do much, but duty more.

Of course, 'The Last Stand' has a villain who is traveling to the border to fulfill his own desires, but it's more about the main character. The Sheriff putting a stop to this villain and defending his town. 'The Last Stand' is more about protecting something. About protecting a value.

The Imperial [military] forces exist as moral entities. They defend not only Japan’s territorial needs, but also the enterprising spirit of the state and its everlasting nature, which is coeval with heaven and earth.

I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to, without the help and support of the woman I love.

I own frankly now that I am to engage, that what I may do may be reckoned and will be reckoned desperate. All appearances seem to be against me. Interest, prudence, and the obligations to you which I lie under, will prevent most people in my situation from taking a resolution that may probably end in my utter ruin. My life, my fortune, my expectations, the happiness of my wife and children are all at stake …, and yet a principle (what seems to me) honour, and my duty to King and Country, outweighs everything.

I die the King’s good servant, but God’s first.

I believe in the idea of sacrifice and fighting for what's right and giving something back to the country that's given me so much.

I will do anything to protect Mr. Trump.

Some people really need to be taught some manners," he said disdainfully. I stared up at him. "Would you really have gotten in a fight for me?" "Of course." He didn't hesitate. "But there were four of them." "Beth, I'd take on Megatron's army to protect you." "Who?

The insignia meant a lot to the men who were fighting ... I had to do it ... I owed it to them.

A man of the Night's Watch lives his life for the realm. Not for a king, nor a lord, nor the honor of this house or that house, neither for gold nor glory nor a woman's love, but for the realm, and all the people in it. A man of the Night's Watch takes no wife and fathers no sons. Our wife is duty. Our mistress is honor. And you are the only sons we shall ever know.

At the core, the American citizen soldiers knew the difference between right and wrong, and they didn't want to live in a world in which wrong prevailed. So they fought, and won, and we all of us, living and yet to be born, must be forever profoundly grateful.

If any honor existed in war, it was in fighting to protect others from harm

I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

First in , Last out. Motto of the bridgeburners

If the exigencies of my country demand a peculiar service, its claims to perform that service are imperious.

They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate.

That’s what you do for family. Anything.

You think death is any better an excuse for desertion than any other?

No displeasure, even of the dearest friends, can put me off the duty I see clearly in front of me.

If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek. If leaving duties unperformed we run after rights, they will escape us like a will-o'-the-wisp.

Here honor binds me, and I wish to satisfy it.

You would quit the Order for her? Niko asked, the youngest only behind Dante, and a warrior who relished his duty perhaps even more than Dante had himself. I would quit breathing for her, if she asked it of me.