Michael T. Flynn Quotes

When this sad war is over we will all return to our homes, and feel that we can ask no higher honor than the proud consciousness that we belonged to the Army of the Potomac.

When the days of rejoicing are over,/ When the flags are stowed safely away,/ They will dream of another wild 'War to End Wars'/ And another wild Armistice day.

Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?

Surviving is the only glory in war.

It is a wide road that leads to the war and only a narrow path that leads home again.

Young people are so brave when they go to fight.

I remember saying that wars must not be glorified, but wars must be remembered.

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

If fighting is sure to result in victory, than you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result in victory, then you must not fight even at the ruler's bidding.

You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end.

Revenge by young men is considered gain, even at the cost of their own lives, but old men who stay at home in times of war, and mothers who have sons to lose, know better.

I have entered the field to die, if need be, for this government, and never expect to return to peaceful pursuits until the object of this war of preservation has become a fact established.

The selfless actions of these heroes have removed them from their families, businesses and homeland to fight, so that others may experience the liberty awaiting our troops upon safe return to America.

I am the living death, a Memorial Day on wheels. I am your Yankee Doodle Dandy, your John Wayne come home, your Fourth of July firecracker exploding in the grave.

I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war.

The accounting of the sacrifice is, more than anything else, the attitude toward war memorials in our time.

There is no French town in which the wounds inflicted on the battle-field are not bleeding.

Each had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their duty.

I've grown up, luckily, with only a distant relationship to war and soldiering.

Arms once taken up should never be laid down, but upon one of three conditions—a safe peace, a complete victory, or an honorable death.

War is about strategic agendas and epic battles that define nations and shape history. War is about courage and heroism, but it is also about pain and suffering and sorrow and tragedy

To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the ass.

We did not win the war with prayers, but with the blood of our soldiers..

It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.

I've been to war, and I know the consequences and sacrifice it takes. If we must fight, we fight to win.