If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn’t give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That’s why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.

As long as the people don’t fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn’t stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful… but so frightening.

There is no room for military people, including our veterans, to see themselves as victims, even if so many of our countrymen are prone to relish that role.

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

True friends stab you in the front.

If you don’t know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

We’re going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded. The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.

There’s no political point worth my son’s life.

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.

My mom, she was a very, very soft woman. It was hard for her to yell or even curse. But when it came to fighting for her kids, she found a strength she didn’t always know she had.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

I would storm the gates of Hell if Third Marine Air Wing was overhead.

These are not dark days: these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

All honor’s wounds are self-inflicted.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.

The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

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.

The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends.

Freedom lies in being bold.

I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

Our love, our gratitude, our admiration for our men and women in uniform, our veterans and their families – all of that is bigger than any one party or any one election.

In the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.

I know some really outstanding Turkish journalists, and have been pleased and honored to be able to join with them a few times in their courageous protests against state terror and repression.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

I’m very loyal.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow – that’s vulnerability.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?