Fighting Men Quotes

All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my uncles. I had to fight my brothers. Girl, child ain't safe in a family of men, but I ain't never thought I had to fight in my own house. I loves Harpo. God knows I do. But I'll kill him dead before I let him beat me.

The victories of peace are great but the victories of war are greater. No merchant, no banker, no railroad magnate, no inventor of improved industrial processes, can do for any nation what can be done for it by its great fighting men..

I'm after people that want to fight, who are the real people. The real fighting men, that's what I want to deal with.

When he utilizes combined energy, his fighting men become, as it were, like rolling logs or stones... The energy developed by good fighting men is as the momentum of a round stone rolled down a mountain thousands of feet in height.

These men were wrongfully rejected, the veterans. The fighting man should never have been blamed for Vietnam.

Fighting for men back then, I think, was just more a way of life, especially if you were a soldier obviously.

I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed.

[There are] some Nervous Nellies ... who will ... break ranks under the strain [of the Vietnam war]. And some will turn on their own leaders and their own country, and on our own fighting men.