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“While the folks at home embraced him as an improbable hero, Washington was denigrated in England as a reckless young warrior and in France…

— Ron Chernow

As a culture, working-class white Americans like myself had no heroes. We loved the military but had no George S. Patton figure in the…

— J. D. Vance

I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero. The minute anybody presumes that they are heroes, they get…

— Steven Spielberg

For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.

— Steven Spielberg

The word 'hero' has been bandied about a lot to refer to anyone killed in Afghanistan or Iraq. But anyone who voluntarily goes to…

— Ted Rall

The patriots of 1776 had far more to fear from Benedict Arnold than they did King George. An enemy easily identified is much less…

— Chuck Baldwin

Growing up, we never got to see a hero who didn't have superpowers who looked like us, that you could kind of look to…

— Corey Hawkins

On June 22, 2008, at the age of 71, an American revolutionary died. He was a bona fide genius, an outspoken critich, a literary…

— Corey Taylor

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried…

— Robert Frost

Most American heroes of the Revolutionary period are by now two men, the actual man and the romantic image. Some are even three men…

— Esther Forbes

Without patriotic political education, a soldier is only a potential criminal.

— Thomas Sankara

The British soldier who thought himself superior, actually became so.

— Anonymous