Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes

Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.

Put the army in the face of death where they cannot escape and they will do heroic things to win.

A real man will never let his fear of death overpower his honor, his sense of duty to his country, and his innate manhood.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

A hero is a man who does what he can.

Men, today we die a little.

I am not a hero but the brave men who died deserved this honor.

I shall never ask any pilot to go on a mission that I won't go on.

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.

You shall hear a good account of me or of my death.

You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero.

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

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

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

It is up to you to decide who to believe: the same people as usual or those who endanger their lives to save the country.

It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.

Amongst the qualities a hero should have, I would include determination, loyalty, courage, perseverance, patience, focus, intrepidity and selflessness.

The same characters that keep reappearing, bigger than life, find their own integrity in doing what they do the way they do it, even if it causes their own deaths.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

I do what I do because it is the right thing to do. I am a warrior, and it is the way of the warrior to fight superior odds.

Civic courage is the kind of valor to which the monuments of nations should most of all be reared.

I can't spare this man—he fights.

For months people have been begging me to come here for this Kamikaze operation. We will die well. The fact that we are taking a role in a great moment is history is a great honor.