Clara Barton Quotes

Our men and women in our armed forces are the real heroes in this conflict.

We learned that whether or not you support the war, you honor the soldiers that fight.

Our veterans have already given everything they have to support and defend our nation - some of them sacrificing life and limb.

Young people are so brave when they go to fight.

Like the American soldiers who went before them, they are putting their lives on the line to protect ours.

For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.

Revenge by young men is considered gain, even at the cost of their own lives, but old men who stay at home in times of war, and mothers who have sons to lose, know better.

With courage and character, American soldiers continue to put themselves on the line to defend our freedom, and so many have paid the ultimate sacrifice.

Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.

Everything starts and finishes with the soldier.

Dad entered the Second World War like any other man, trying to do the right thing.

I told the stories of the soldiers who don’t get a vote on whether or not they are on the battlefield.

When Nature gives a young man no other utilizable faculty, she must be understood as intending him for a soldier.

I joined the army after 9/11, after the Iraq war was started. I joined in part because I wanted to go fight on the front lines.

We ask our men and our women to go overseas to fight for our country and sacrifice so much for this great country so that we can be the land of the free, the land of the brave.

War was a way of life for Americans in the early forties. Heroism was expected.

I fought for this country.

The U.S. Military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into the field to fight for it. The people who wear our uniform and carry our rifles into combat are our kids, and our job is to support them, because they're protecting us.

Being a soldier, fighting for this country, is neither Republican nor Democrat.

From the bitter cold winter at Valley Forge, to the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq, our soldiers have courageously answered when called, gone where ordered, and defended our nation with honor.

For me, it's an honor for the military to ask me to go to Iraq, Afghanistan, or GITMO. I'm happy to go.

I long to be in the Field again, doing my part to keep the old flag up, with all its stars.

It's one thing to say you're for the war; it's another thing to send your kid to war - your daughter or your son.

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

America's Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world.