Adrian Lewis Quotes

Everything starts and finishes with the soldier.

Sacrifice is going to war for your country. Sacrifice is a brave young man being blown up by a landmine in Afghanistan.

I told the stories of the soldiers who don’t get a vote on whether or not they are on the battlefield.

No sir, anybody who went out and got into the front line trenches to fight for liberty was a goddamn fool and the guy who got him there was a liar.

To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the ass.

I joined the army after 9/11, after the Iraq war was started. I joined in part because I wanted to go fight on the front lines.

War was a way of life for Americans in the early forties. Heroism was expected.

A lot of songwriters have written about soldiers and war, but very few have written with them.

I would like to speak in terms of praise due to the many brave officers and soldiers who have fought in the cause of the war.

Young people are so brave when they go to fight.

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

Every pioneer and musician who could carry a musket went into the ranks. Even the sick and foot-sore, who could not keep up in the march, came up as soon as they could find their regiments, and took their places in line of battle, while it was battle, indeed.

'The Red' delivers intense action, leavened by a genuinely sympathetic portrait of soldiers caught up in battles they never chose.

Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.

Dad entered the Second World War like any other man, trying to do the right thing.

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.

War is fear cloaked in courage.

Join the Army, see the world, meet interesting people—and kill them.

Men go to war for fear, honor or interest.

This idle complaining, wishing, and lamenting, and boasting will answer no end. Something must be done! Must be done by you! Therefore instead of assuming the state of patriots and heroes at home, TO ARMS! and away to the field and prove your pretensions sincere. Let the thunder of this imprecation rouse you out of your ease and security...

When Nature gives a young man no other utilizable faculty, she must be understood as intending him for a soldier.

When you're going off to Iraq, your horizons become more short term.

War may make a fool of man, but it by no means degrades him; on the contrary, it tends to exalt him, and its net effects are much like those of motherhood on women.

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.

No two wars are ever the same. Some are just, some are unjust, but the basic commonality shared between them all is that young men and women heeded a call to service, overcame their fear, and fought for their side.