Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
War is too important to be left to the generals.
In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.
We make war that we may live in peace.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
In war, the moral is to the physical as three is to one.
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.
A soldier's duty is not to reason why, but to do and die.
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.
War is what happens when language fails.
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.
War does not determine who is right, only who is left.