Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

That is why every military officer fights - so that there may be peace.

I am willing to serve my country, but do not wish to sacrifice the brave men under my command.

Churchill knew the importance of peace, and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice, of course. He stressed strategy, but it was his voice that armed England at last with the old-fashioned moral concepts of honor and duty, justice and mercy.

Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?

When the question arose whether I, as a member of the royal family, should take part in active combat in the Falklands, there was no question in her mind, and it only took her two days to sort the issue.

Revenge by young men is considered gain, even at the cost of their own lives, but old men who stay at home in times of war, and mothers who have sons to lose, know better.

Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from falling hands we throw.

I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.

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

War is America's central liturgical act necessary to renew our sense that we are a nation unlike other nations.

People think of the military as being about guns and fighting wars, but it's really about service to country and community.

Responsibility and accountability is a big part of being in the military.

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.

Each had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their duty.

There are things a man must not do to save a nation.

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

Anyone who wants to carry on the war against the outsiders, come with me. I can’t offer you either honours or wages; I offer you hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Anyone who loves his country, follow me.

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

Arms once taken up should never be laid down, but upon one of three conditions—a safe peace, a complete victory, or an honorable death.

We cannot ask our soldiers to be courageous if our politicians are not.

Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility. I welcome it.

It’s very hard really to look a soldier in the eye when you fear that you are sending him to his death.

To the next generation, your war is here; you don't have to find it.