Distinguished Service Quotes

I wasn’t highly decorated. The highly decorated men are dead.

Tennis Canada nominated me a few years ago, and I did some research into it and realized it's one of the biggest honours you can have as a Canadian. I've seen the list of the people, and it's pretty special.

I have decorated soldiers for heroism before, and it was always such an honor to do it.

I have a CBE, and I accepted it with glee because it's not bestowed on you by the royal family; it's not bestowed on you by the government; you have to be nominated by the public.

Well, I have a CBE and I accepted it with glee because it's not bestowed on you by the royal family, it's not bestowed on you by the government, you have to be nominated by the public.

When I was in my early twenties, I hoped one day to own a Victoria Cross, the ultimate decoration in Britain and the Commonwealth for bravery in the face of the enemy.

We had a master sergeant present us with the Bronze Star of Valor he had gotten because he had felt we were the eighth men of the platoon.

I was once made honorary mayor of my hometown of Newark, Del.

The Navy credits me with more kills as a sniper than any other American service member, past or present.

I hate it. I resent it. I refuse to tell anybody that I am a Medal of Honor recipient. I hate it.

I look forward to doing my part to keep our solemn vow to veterans who have served our country with pride and distinction. They are all heroes in my eyes, and they deserve no less.

Personally, I liked Admiral Kelso very much. I believe that he served his country with distinction.

… one of the most meritorious men in America

I'm 62 years old. Am I old enough to win a lifetime achievement award? Yes, I am. Thank you very much.

I think it's long overdue, and I believed that Doris Miller should have been honored a long time ago.

The Medal of Valor is this nation's highest and most prestigious award for public safety officers.

I recommend that, in recognition of the signal act of heroism of First Lieutenant Frank H. Newcomb, United States Revenue Cutter Service, above set forth, the thanks of Congress be extended to him and to his officers and men of the HUDSON; and that a gold medal of honor be presented to Lieutenant Newcomb, and silver medal of honor to each of his crew who served with him at Cardenas .

If in heroic conduct, whether of warriors, philosophers or scientists, we see what is of essential nature, then we know that all heroism groups itself around a supreme value. This has always been the idea of honour, spiritual and mental. But the idea of honour, like its corporeal representatives, was involved in a war of soul and spirit against the values represented by alien races or the offspring of racial chaos.

I am not qualified to be a Dame. To be Dame you have to represent England in a way that I don't.

President Gerald Ford was no intellectual, but he had served with distinction in combat as a naval gunnery officer and then as Congressman for a quarter century.

I think at some point I need an OBE from the Queen as I've entertained the nation during Corona.

As the president put the Medal of Honor around my neck, I felt the history and the weight of a nation.

I am humbled and deeply honored to have been asked to serve the congregants of Shearith Israel, a congregation with an incomparable history, where some of America's most distinguished rabbis have pastored and preached.

I received an OBE from the Queen, which probably doesn't mean anything in America but is quite nice in England - the Order of the British Empire for services to drama.

Before they got through with this thing, everybody got in the act.... They ordered over 7,000 medals to be awarded for an action that probably would have required 1,200 or 1,500 people.