Bernard Goldberg Quotes

Vietnam helped me realize who the true heroes really are in this world. It's not the home-run hitters.

The man who brings victory is prized above all others.

The greatest gift the hero leaves his race, is to have been a hero.

No doubt Jean Bart does not talk like you, but who of you could act like Jean Bart?

A degree of silence envelops [George] Washington’s actions; he moved slowly; one might say that he felt charged with future liberty, and that he feared to compromise it. It was not his own destiny that inspired this new species of hero: it was that of his country; he did not allow himself to enjoy what did not belong to him; but from that profound humility what glory emerged! Search the woods where Washington’s sword gleamed: what do you find? Tombs? No; a world! Washington has left the United States behind for a monument on the field of battle.

The real heroes of WWII never came home.

Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.

The heroes who emerged first from the rubble of the September 11 attacks were not politicians or generals and they didnt become household names in the months that followed. They were, instead, public servants who continued to work day in and day out to protect our communities and ensure hometown security.

Our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes - and I see many of them in the audience here today.

Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.

To ward off alienation and gloom, it is only necessary to remember the unremembered heroes of the past, and to look around us for the unnoticed heroes of the present.

Don't flatter the rich, or appear to willing before the great.

Nothing is more portable than rich people and their money

In one of his last newsletters, Mike Ranney wrote: "In thinking back on the days of Easy Company, I'm treasuring my remark to a grandson who asked, 'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?' No,'" I answered, 'but I served in a company of heroes.

I shall not want Honor in Heaven For I shall meet Sir Philip Sidney And have talk with Coriolanus And other heroes of that kidney.

My family has schoolteachers and librarians, and I think people who teach are probably some of our greatest American heroes. Certainly, underpaid and unsung.

You are the heroes. You are the heroes everyday.

The very rich and the very social are, often, the very stuffy.

Too much has been said of the heroes of history-the strong men, the troublesome men; too little of the amiable, the kindly, the tolerant.

Britain needs a simpler tax system which is simple to understand, where there are no loop-holes, where the very rich do not avoid tax by employing expensive accountants

We like to read about rich people in the newspapers; the papers know it, and they do their best to keep this appetite liberally fed.

Beauty is often spoken of as though it only stirs lust or admiration, but the most beautiful people are so in a way that makes them look like destiny or fate or meaning, the heroes of a remarkable story.

I love rich people. Any time I needed a job, I went to a rich person. I like poor people, but they never had a job for me.

It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.

We start off wearing frilly shirts and britches and being good guys and the heroes. And then as time goes on, every English actor ends up playing bad guys. That's what we do.