Billy Ray Cyrus Quotes

When we ponder that vast throng who have died honorably defending home and hearth, we contemplate those immortal words, 'Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.' The feelings of heartfelt gratitude for the supreme sacrifice made by so many cannot be confined to a Memorial Day, a military parade, or a decorated grave.

They never fail who die in a great cause.

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

The real heroes were my good buddies who died during the battles.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

Sacrifice is going to war for your country. Sacrifice is a brave young man being blown up by a landmine in Afghanistan.

When you go home, tell them of us and say, “For tomorrow these gave their today.”

Some made the ultimate sacrifice. The rest of us were lucky.

Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay, but we can honor their sacrifice.

Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old, But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold.

Heroes who shed their blood and lost their lives! You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace.

Over all our happy country - over all our Nation spread, Is a band of noble heroes - is our Army of the Dead.

When you've married someone who's been at war, there is nothing you can do that compares to that level of selflessness and bravery.

If I have to lay an egg for my country, I'll do it.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.

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.

September 11th has produced only miniature heroes because our culture has freed itself from many of the old, dangerous, elitist fantasies of heroism... But in so doing, we have not only tamed and diminished heroes. We have risked taming and diminishing ourselves.

The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.

The Spaniard is gallant and patriotic, and sacrifices everything, in favorable moments, for his country's good. He has the intrepidity of his bull.

I am the living death, a Memorial Day on wheels. I am your Yankee Doodle Dandy, your John Wayne come home, your Fourth of July firecracker exploding in the grave.

I'd gladly take a grenade, if it meant saving Newark.

There is nothing nobler than risking your life for your country.

I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.