Joshua Chamberlain Quotes

We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly.

Let us be bold. Let us be brave. Let us be together.

The scene was not a happy one yet we looked upon it in the cold stoical spirit of a soldier; a slight chilling pang and then a return soul and body to the enemy before us.

Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?

War is fear cloaked in courage.

I shall hurl the first spear at the foe. If any man can stand at rest while Attila fights, he is a dead man.

If they [the English] want a war, they may start it. We are not afraid of it.

We must fight for peace bravely as we fought in war.

It doesn't matter how scary someone may seem - they have two legs, two arms and a heartbeat just like me. There's no reason why I wouldn't want to fight anybody.

War spares not the brave, but the cowardly.

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.

Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.

War is an unmitigated evil. But it certainly does one good thing. It drives away fear and brings bravery to the surface.

Faith and Fear make poor bedfellows. Where one is found, the other cannot exist.

I was a coward. I went to the war.

It is glorious to see such courage in one so young.

Go head Taggert. Take your best shot.

In Burton's day they [soldiers] were itching to get into the fray. Now it is the opposite. They are always whining about the dangers of being killed. Oh my God, they are such wimps now! The whole point of being in the Army is wanting to get killed, wanting to test yourself to the limits. Now you have to fly 15,000ft above the war zone to avoid getting hit. I don't think there is any point in having wars if that's how you're going to behave. It's pathetic. All this whining!

Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend To mean devices for a sordid end. Courage--an independent spark from Heaven's bright throne, By which the soul stands raised, triumphant high, alone. Great in itself, not praises of the crowd, Above all vice, it stoops not to be proud. Courage, the mighty attribute of powers above, By which those great in war, are great in love. The spring of all brave acts is seated here, As falsehoods draw their sordid birth from fear.

Nothing is to be feared but fear.

If we had the courage to love we would not so value these acts of war.

Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers.

Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.