martial valor Quotes

We are showing that Englishmen can still die with a bold spirit, fighting it out to the end.

This is a good day to die. Follow me!

Death on the battlefield is welcome to a soldier.

It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.

Brave is good - especially when you are a soldier.

Far better than emasculation would be the bravery of those who use physical force. Far better than cowardice would be meeting one's death fighting.

The Way of a Warrior is based on humanity, love, and sincerity; the heart of martial valor is true bravery, wisdom, love, and friendship. Emphasis on the physical aspects of warriorship is futile, for the power of the body is always limited.

The Spartan, smiting and spurning the wretched Helot, moves our disgust. But the same Spartan, calmly dressing his hair, and uttering his concise jests, on what the well knows to be his last day, in the pass of Thermopylae, is not to be contemplated without admiration.

Ambition, the soldier's virtue.

War's dirty little secret is that some men love it. I'm trying to unpack why, to look at what it means to be a hero in the context of 21st-century combat.

Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valor, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for us to perish in battle than to look upon the outrage of our nation ...

There must be some good in the life of battle, for so many good men have enjoyed being soldiers.

Better than cowardice is killing and being killed in battle.

Swift blazing flag of the regiment,Eagle with crest of red and gold,These men were born to drill and die.Point for them the virtue of slaughter,Make plain to them the excellence of killingAnd a field where a thousand corpses lie.

For his mind was full of forlorn hopes, death-or-glory charges, and last stands.