Clara Barton Quotes

I haven't been able to grasp the concept of putting your life on the line for whatever reason people go into the military for. Some people just want to pay their bills, some people believe in their country and some people do it because their parents did it, but that's rough.

The consciousness of having discharged that duty which we owe to our country is superior to all other considerations.

Your King and Country need you.

My family have a long story of service to our country.

I am conscious of having served England as I served my own country.

For me, it's an honor for the military to ask me to go to Iraq, Afghanistan, or GITMO. I'm happy to go.

But I felt it necessary to be part of the war effort and I enlisted in the Navy to be a flyer.

The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.

Whoever won't fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.

My family has served the country in almost every major war since the Civil War.

In the beginning of the war, Southern women wanted their men to leave - in droves, and as quickly as possible. They were the Confederate Army's most persuasive and effective recruitment officers, shaming anyone who shirked his duty to fight.

For me personally, as I said, I want to serve my country. I've done it once, and I'm still in the army, I feel as though I should get the opportunity to do it again.

I think there are many ways to serve your country.

We shall rear them as needed for the Fatherland.

Let me start by saying I wish no country had the need for an army. But in Israel, serving is part of being an Israeli. You've got to give back to the state. You give two or three years, and it's not about you. You give your freedom away. You learn discipline and respect.

I dreamed even after I laid down my rifle I would continue to uphold my oath to defend the Constitution.

I did my duty as an American citizen and Army officer.

With all my devotion to the Union, and the feeling of loyalty and duty of an American citizen, I have not been able to make up my mind to raise my hand against my relative, my children, my home. I have, therefore, resigned my commission in the Army.

The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one’s country

Our people sacrifice a lot for their country, including their lives. None of them should have to sacrifice their integrity as well.

There’s no way I’m going to put myself through Sandhurst and then sit on my arse back home while my boys are out fighting for their country.

Michael Hastings has never served his country the way McChrystal has.

I got skin on the game. I want to serve my country.

When you enlisted into the armed forces you swore to support and defend a Constitution that did not yet fully apply to you. You chose to endure the same sacrifices as your fellow comrades in arms to preserve the freedom of a land that was not yet fully yours. You accepted that you might have to pay the ultimate price on behalf of a nation to which you did not fully belong. Now, you will officially become citizens of the United States, a country to which each of you has already borne true faith and allegiance in your hearts and your deeds.

We owe her a major debt of gratitude for her service to our country.