Marcus Luttrell Quotes

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.

Going to war was the only unselfish thing I have ever done for humanity.

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.

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.

I'm looking to be shot any time I step out of my car ... If I die, it will be in a good cause. I've been fighting for America just as much as the soldiers in Vietnam.

Who builds with sweat, defends with blood.

I speak for a nation which, more than any other, has fought and bled.

In patriotism, loyalty, and combat, there are no moderates.

Rise! ye gallant youth of Britain, Gather to your country's call, On your hearts her name is written, Rise to help her, one and all!

We did not win the war with prayers, but with the blood of our soldiers..

England expects that every man will do his duty.

From the bitter cold winter at Valley Forge, to the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq, our soldiers have courageously answered when called, gone where ordered, and defended our nation with honor.

For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.

I was raised with those principals and values and ethics that came out of the men and women that served. But this generation doesn't quite know; they haven't been tested.

Although the war in which you fought took place more than half-a-century ago, your courage, your sacrifice and your patriotism reaches through the decades and inspires us today.

Our veterans accepted the responsibility to defend America and uphold our values when duty called.

As young West Point cadets, our motto was 'duty, honor, country.' But it was in the field, from the rice paddies of Southeast Asia to the sands of the Middle East, that I learned that motto's fullest meaning. There I saw gallant young Americans of every race, creed and background fight, and sometimes die, for 'duty, honor, and their country.'

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

In war, it feels like everything you're doing is more important because you're in the proximity of violence and death, and that proximity changes your relationship to America because it changes the way you see the world.

It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

Surviving is the only glory in war.

I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.

Everything starts and finishes with the soldier.

I like the ethos of the military and the idea of joining an institution in which, at the very least, everyone who signs up believes in something.