Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

Our men and women in our armed forces are the real heroes in this conflict.

Everything starts and finishes with the soldier.

Atheists in foxholes, some say they are myths, Creations of the mind who just don't exist. Yet, they answered the call to defend, with great pride. With reason their watchword, they bled and they died.

I told the stories of the soldiers who don’t get a vote on whether or not they are on the battlefield.

Like the American soldiers who went before them, they are putting their lives on the line to protect ours.

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.

Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.

This conflict is one thing I've been waiting for. I'm well and strong and young - young enough to go to the front. If I can't be a soldier, I'll help soldiers.

Join the Army, see the world, meet interesting people—and kill them.

Men do not take good iron to make nails or good men to make soldiers.

You are fit for something better than ... cannon fodder.

They serve so that we don't have to. They offer to give up their lives so that we can be free. It is, remarkably, their gift to us. And all they ask for in return is that we never send them into harm's way unless it is absolutely necessary. Will they ever trust us again?

For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' “Chuck him out, the brute!” But it's “Saviour of 'is country” when the guns begin to shoot.

One percent of our country is fighting to protect the other 99 percent.

For a soldier I enlisted, to grow great in fame. And be shot at for sixpence a day.

We ask our men and our women to go overseas to fight for our country and sacrifice so much for this great country so that we can be the land of the free, the land of the brave.

Our veterans have already given everything they have to support and defend our nation - some of them sacrificing life and limb.

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

From the bitter cold winter at Valley Forge, to the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq, our soldiers have courageously answered when called, gone where ordered, and defended our nation with honor.

I think of all the guys that strap a gun on their backs and head to Afghanistan and Iraq to keep us free and safe and maintain what America has stood for.

Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.

As young West Point cadets, our motto was 'duty, honor, country.' But it was in the field, from the rice paddies of Southeast Asia to the sands of the Middle East, that I learned that motto's fullest meaning. There I saw gallant young Americans of every race, creed and background fight, and sometimes die, for 'duty, honor, and their country.'

The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.

The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.

Spending time with America's soldiers is always inspiring.