Honor and Duty Quotes

The sword was a very elegant weapon in the days of the samurai. You had honor and chivalry much like the knights, and yet it was a gruesome and horrific weapon.

Shall This Continue? Join the Navy.

When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship.

My heroes are the non-commissioned officers. If I had another life that's what I'd be - a regimental sergeant major or a similar rank. That's where the spirit of the armed forces is.

I joined the Army in 1965 and served with the 11th Hussars, which I loved. The regiment was so relaxed - a salute was more like a friendly wave.

The De Bernieres were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier.

No man is fit to be a senator unless he is willing to surrender his political life for a great principle.

We shot the video for 'Broken' where both my parents grew up. There was always a strong sense of serving our country in the neighborhood - my father and all my uncles served, and most of them enlisted.

I'd never say I wouldn't fight a war. In different ages, I would have done. I'd have fought the Vikings.

In communities like mine, we send our best and brightest to our armed forces. Our culture's elites, on the other hand, encourage their children to do just about anything else.

Ah! never shall the land forget How gushed the life-blood of her brave -

My definition, the definition that I've always believed in, is that esprit de corps means love for one's own military legion - in my case, the United States Marine Corps. It means more than self-preservation, religion, or patriotism. I've also learned that this loyalty to one's corps travels both ways: up and down.

Even if a sense of honor and duty were not the primary motivating factors in the Warren Commission's work, simple self-interest would naturally have induced its members not to try to cover up the existence of a conspiracy if, in fact, they found one.

If I was on Game of Thrones, I think the nudity and sex questions would probably get irritating, but this is a show about sex.

No greater privilege than I had as a soldier and then as a spymaster and to some degree now in the business world.

When people say a knight's job is all glory, I laugh, and laugh, and laugh.

There is an unspoken feminist layer to Katana. She's an aggressive modern woman with traditional Japanese roots. She was in love with her sword because she believed it contained her husband.