Military Quotes for Scrapbooks
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger.
I do not shrink from this responsibility—I welcome it.
--John F. Kennedy
You don’t raise heroes; you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they’ll turn out to be heroes, even if it’s just in your own eyes.
--Walter Schirra Sr.
One man with great courage makes a majority.
--Andrew Jackson
The fearless are merely fearless.
People who act in spite of their fear are truly brave.
--James A. LaFond-Lewis
Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
--General Douglas MacArthur
All the survivors of the war had reached their homes and so
put the perils of battle and the sea behind them.
--Homer
Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
--Douglas MacArthur
These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine
patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that
stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
--Thomas Paine
A hero is no braver than anyone else; he is only brave five minutes longer.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.
--General George Patton Jr.
Some people live an entire lifetime and wonder if they have ever made a difference in the world, but the Marines don’t have that problem.
--Ronald Reagan
Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid.
--Col. David H. Hackworth
It is the soldier, not the reporter,
Who has given us freedom of the press.
It is the soldier, not the poet,
Who has given us freedom of speech.
It is the soldier, not the organizer,
Who has given us the freedom to demonstrate.
It is the soldier, Who salutes the flag,
Who serves beneath the flag,
And whose coffin is draped by the flag,
Who allows the protestor to burn the flag.
--Father Dennis Edward O’Brian, USMC
