Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.
We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us.
The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.