Leonid Brezhnev Quotes

I am now at the head of two thousand and seventy volunteers, the choicest of our citizens, who go at the call of their country to execute the will of the Government; who have no Constitutional scruples, and if the Government orders, will rejoice at the opportunity of placing the American eagle on the ramparts of Mobile, Pensacola and Fort St. Augustine.

It is always a great pleasure to fight for your own country.

I've faced the grief, I've faced the anger, and I'm ready to keep up the fight because America is worth fighting for.

If you love this land of the free, bring them home, bring them home, Bring them back from overseas.

"Duty, Honor, Country" - those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn.

The military is the most esteemed American institution.

I have grown up in a family where every one is a part of the defence forces, so freedom and everything related to independence runs deep down my veins.

I've always been passionate about England.

I love my country. I love this country.

The infant, on opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and to the hour of his death never lose sight of it.

To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, "Our Country, right or wrong," and urge on the little war. Have you not perceived that that phrase is an insult to the nation?

The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation - the great peaks we had forgotten, of Honor, Duty, Patriotism, and clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven.

I was very glad that Mr. Attlee described my speeches in the war as expressing the will not only of Parliament but of the whole nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless and, as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it, and if I found the right words you must remember that I have always earned my living by my pen and by my tongue. It was a nation and race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

I'm not going to quit. Why should I quit? This country is worth fighting for.

The single best augury is to fight for one's country.

There is something magnificent in having a country to love.

However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country is the noblest development of mankind.

Lord God, let us never hesitate or play the coward, let us never forget the duty which we have taken upon us.... We are all proud that through God's powerful aid we have become once more true Germans.

Love of country produces among men such examples as Cincinnatus, Alfred, Washington--pure, unselfish, symmetrical; among women, Vittoria Colonna, Madame Roland, Charlotte Corday, Jeanne Darc--romantic, devoted, marvelous.

The soldier 's courage and sacrifice is full of glory , expressing devotion to country , to cause, to comrades in arms. But war itself is never glorious , and we must never trumpet it as such.

The safety of the country is at stake... We must let ourselves be killed on the spot rather than retreat... No faltering can be tolerated today.

Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.

Stood for his country's glory fast, And nailed her colors to the mast!

Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand!

I would not change my native landFor rich Peru with all her gold