Courage Quote by David Calder

“Ah, Mr. War, sir. It seems that owing to circumstances completely beyond my control, there's been a bit of a cock up in the…

— Chris Barrie as Arnold Rimmer on Red Dwarf

“I kept my hands firmly on the iron rail before me. Grabbing the weight bar and walloping the Beast Lord upside the head wouldn’t…

— Ilona Andrews

“What’s your name?’ ‘Pilot Officer Dahl, sir.’ ‘Very well, Dahl,’ he said, weighing the package up and down in one hand. ‘This is on…

— Roald Dahl

“The soldier must be calm in the thick of the battle," pursued the policeman. "The composure of an army is the anger of a…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Dear, Missus, Mister - I beg you never to give thoughts to war, in no way, not to work for it, not by writing…

— Stella Gibbons

“Whether or not his remarks are fully warranted, they are a reminder that the “canker of a long peace” is a creeping sickness to…

— Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon

“For if I wimp my wing on thine. Affliction shall advance the flight in me.”

— George Herbert

“For, if I imp my wing on thine, Affliction shall advance the flight in me.”

— George Herbert

“I am the history of battery assault and limitless armies against whatever I want to do with my mind and my body and my…

— June Jordan

“I scoffed at such old fashioned notions as duty, patriotism, the military virtues. And here I was, aged fifty, standing on guard at the…

— David Malouf

As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he…

— Duke of Wellington

“I've flown over seventy goddam combat missions. Don't talk to me about fighting to save my country. I've been fighting all along to save…

— Joseph Heller