Claire Fox Quotes

They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.

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.'

I would rather bury myself under the ruins of my country than basely yield to the wishes of the enemy.

We ask ourselves daily whether we are contributing all that we possibly can to the war effort. The war is our war, and many of the people we love must give their lives to this crusade, and there must be some contribution which we can make which taxes the best that is in us. That is our ever-present challenge.

It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced.

What is a society without a heroic dimension?

Young people are so brave when they go to fight.

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

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

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.

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

A man will go to war, fight and die for his country. But he won't get a bikini wax.

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

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

For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.

I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero. The minute anybody presumes that they are heroes, they get their boots taken away from them and buried in the sand.

The men and women who serve in our military have won for us every hour we live in freedom, sometimes at the expense of the very hours of the lifetimes they had hoped to live.

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America's servicemen and women.

Going to war was the only unselfish thing I have ever done for humanity.

A short, glorious life in service of a greater good - say, the life of the Spartans at Thermopylae, or the pilots in the Battle of Britain, of whom Winston Churchill said 'Never have so many owed so much to so few,' - that is worth praising. But for glory alone? I think not.

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.

There's a lot of people that fought for their country and that's not something to be taken lightly. They gave their life, everything they had, they gave their lives, to give us what we have. That's why I'm so passionate about my beliefs - because someone died.

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.

My son joined the army to protect America, not Israel.