Robert Aldrich Quotes

You shall hear a good account of me or of my death.

Heroes aren't perfect.

Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

A common soldier will make an empire, but he will eventually meet his fate and be condemned to the Great Rock.

Men, today we die a little.

To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero.

The soldiers that didn't come back were the heroes. It's a roll of the dice. If a bullet has your name on it, you're a hero. If you hear a bullet go by, you're a survivor.

For a season, a gifted speaker can inspire with his words, but for a lifetime John McCain has inspired with his deeds.

Amongst the qualities a hero should have, I would include determination, loyalty, courage, perseverance, patience, focus, intrepidity and selflessness.

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.

Civic courage is the kind of valor to which the monuments of nations should most of all be reared.

Put the army in the face of death where they cannot escape and they will do heroic things to win.

It is better to die fighting than to live begging.

Send me six hundred men who know how to die

Perhaps the right to authenticity and the reverence of authenticity should be reserved for people like John McCain. John McCain who at his most authentic chose to stay and face years of torture rather than leave before his brothers.

Chris Kyle was a human being, a Texan, Navy SEAL, father, husband, brother, friends to many, and a hero to many; this, at a time when we need all the heroes we can get. I knew him to be a good person, regardless of all the hype floating around in the media.

I want to be a fighter. So fight for something! Not for money.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

What is a society without a heroic dimension?

A hero is a man who does what he can.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.