Paul Keating Quotes

There's a scene I particularly like in 'Betrayed' where Shane has been shot in the side. Yet he drives to a small airport, checks out the Rockfort plane and flies himself and Elena to safety. Only when he knows they are out of danger does he allow himself to sit down on the couch and admit he's injured - to a horrified Elena.

It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

Heroism is endurance for one moment more.

Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.

The Spaniard is gallant and patriotic, and sacrifices everything, in favorable moments, for his country's good. He has the intrepidity of his bull.

There's no glory like those who save their country.

There is nothing nobler than risking your life for your country.

I have so much respect for people in the service. The mental strength it takes to do what they do is unbelievable.

On a normal day, we value heroism because it is uncommon. On Sept. 11, we valued heroism because it was everywhere.

We all wish to be brave and strong in the face of disaster. We all wish to be looked up to for our endurance and efforts to help others.

Thanks to the heroic sons and daughters of this country, who have paid sacrifices, we have been able to score a number of victories which are encouraging the nation-building process we are engaged in.

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

It is sweet and honourable to die for one’s 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.

The Republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it.

It is a sweet and glorious thing to die for one's country. Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.

Gold is good in its place, but living, brave, patriotic men are better than Gold.

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

Whether on the scaffold high Or on the battle-field we die, Oh, what matter, when for Erin dear we fall.

God save Ireland, said the heroes God save Ireland said they all. Whether on the scaffold high, Or the battle field we die O’ what matter when for Ireland dear we fall.

No force can conquer the service personnel and people who, in support of their great leader, have turned out in the struggle to defend their country with confidence in the validity of their cause and their own strength - this is a law and a truth taught by history.

We should be proud of the soldiers who laid down their lives for our motherland. We should be proud of them.

Perhaps the right to authenticity and the reverence of authenticity should be reserved for people like John McCain. John McCain who at his most authentic chose to stay and face years of torture rather than leave before his brothers.

The enduring realization that when a great challenge comes, the most ordinary people can show that they value something more than they value their own lives. When the last of the veterans had gone, and the sorrows and bitterness which the war created had at last worn away, this memory remained.