Tragically, the effort to make America and the world safer and to defend freedom around the world is not without an enormous cost to this Nation in terms primarily of lost lives and those who bear the scars and the wounds of war, and their families who must bear these losses.
Copy QuoteIt is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
Copy Quote View & ShareRegard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.
Copy Quote View & ShareNever wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
Copy Quote View & ShareWhen soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.
Copy Quote View & ShareGentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.
Copy Quote View & ShareSoldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done.
Copy Quote View & SharePerfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
Copy Quote View & ShareBrave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
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