Character Quote by Barack Obama

I know in war good people can feel obliged for good reasons to do things they would normally object to and recoil from.

— John McCain

It's the sense of duty that keeps you going sometimes when things get very, very rough. Somebody's got to do it. And if you…

— Norman Schwarzkopf

“In the war, to survive, you had to be responsible every minute of every day, unhesitatingly responsible for yourself, for your every action. You…

— Dean Koontz

It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it…

— William Butler Yeats

“Victory and defeat are but ordinary events in a soldier's career, and why should you give up?”

— Luo Guanzhong

“When you are a soldier you do not always realize there is anything beyond the will of your commander, the will of your king.…

— Hazel B. West

Tis a well-known fact that a man is either skilled in matters of loving or matters of war. ’Tis obvious that fighting is your…

— Maya Banks

No one is going to stick their head out of the trenches for someone they don't respect or trust. You can get shot doing…

— Gordon Bethune

It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The idea...that our professional military men and women train for years without knowing whether they will ever have to actually carry out their missions…

— Marcus Luttrell

In the soldier we see the love of country. When you are willing to go onto a battlefield and give your life to defend…

— Frederick Lenz

“We do not often get to declare victories, Natch, and most of them do not remain victories for very long. Ultimately when you reach…

— David Louis Edelman