Fred Thompson Quotes

Here's to the red of it, There's not a thread of it, No, not a shred of it, In all the spread of it, From foot to head, But heroes bled for it, Faced steel and lead for it, Precious blood shed for it, Bathing in red.

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

A man will go to war, fight and die for his country. But he won't get a bikini wax.

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.

It is heroic to prepare for war with a tyrant power. Patriots will always win the admiration of mankind for daring to meet the bloodshed of battle for their country's liberty. But the patriot who is willing to go to that sacrifice will be the first to condemn the aimless and secret shedding of blood in time of peace.

God bless the Union; - it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defence.

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

I am not ordering you to fight for your country. I am ordering you to die for your country!

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.

I gave my life for freedom--This I know; For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Soldiers will fight for our independence and the honor of the Volk. My cause is the cause of my Volk.

Blessed is that country whose soldiers fight for it and are willing to give the best they have, the best that any man has, their own lives, to preserve it, because they love it. Such an army the United States has always commanded in every crisis of its history.

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

There is no glory in war, yet from the blackness of its history, there emerge vivid colours of human character and courage. Those who risked their lives to help their friends.

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.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Our soldiers have nobly fought to protect freedom since our country's birth, and have fought to protect those that could not protect themselves, even in foreign lands when called upon.

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

I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero. The minute anybody presumes that they are heroes, they get their boots taken away from them and buried in the sand.

The men and women who serve in our military have won for us every hour we live in freedom, sometimes at the expense of the very hours of the lifetimes they had hoped to live.

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

Glorious shall be the battle when the time comes to fight for our people and our race.

Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America's servicemen and women.

This year's Veterans Day celebration is especially significant as our country remains committed to fighting the War on Terror and as brave men and women are heroically defending our homeland.

With courage and character, American soldiers continue to put themselves on the line to defend our freedom, and so many have paid the ultimate sacrifice.