No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.
Thomas CarlylePeople sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
George OrwellAmerica has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War.
Henry KissingerThe Corps is in good hands, and it’s been a privilege to serve with the Leathernecks. Now it’s time to go.
Jim MattisWe are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.
Lyndon B. JohnsonThese people are very unskilled in arms… with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.
Christopher ColumbusShow me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.
Thomas CarlyleWhen Hillary served in the Senate, I saw her work day and night as a member of the Armed Services Committee – working with Republicans and Democrats to keep our military strong and protect our troops and their families.
Madeleine AlbrightI was honoured when they asked me to appear at the president’s birthday rally in Madison Square Garden. There was like a hush over the whole place when I came on to sing ‚Happy Birthday,‘ like if I had been wearing a slip, I would have thought it was showing or something. I thought, ‚Oh, my gosh, what if no sound comes out!‘
Marilyn MonroeFellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
Abraham LincolnMilitary intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
Groucho MarxWho sows virtue reaps honor.
Leonardo da VinciThe army is the true nobility of our country.
Napoleon BonaparteI’m a child of God first. Before I became a celebrity, I was baptized a Christian.
Mr. TDon’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore RooseveltGulf Lesson One is the value of airpower.
George H. W. BushIt is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
Niccolo MachiavelliPakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.
Noam ChomskyPatriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
Bertrand RussellConfidence… thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.
Franklin D. RooseveltIt is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
Hermann HesseThe mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature.
Abraham LincolnYou can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.
George Bernard ShawThere 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.
Jim MattisWhen trouble breaks out, our men and women in uniform, they don’t just sit around thinking about it or talking about it – they act. They put on that uniform. They leave their loved ones behind. They go out there. They give orders. They follow orders. They do whatever it takes to keep our country safe.
Michelle ObamaWar – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
George WashingtonHonor is simply the morality of superior men.
H. L. MenckenTo be recognized for the hard work my team and I put into ‚Starboy‘ is an honor.
The WeekndA private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.
Abraham LincolnWe know that in tough times, cynicism is just another way to give up, and in the military, we consider cynicism or giving up simply as forms of cowardice.
Jim MattisDemonstrate to the world, there is ‚No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy‘ than a U.S. Marine.
Jim MattisArchbishop – A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.
H. L. MenckenLet me tell you what I literally told every world leader I’ve met with, and I’ve met them all: It’s never, never, never been a good bet to bet against America. We have the finest fighting force in the world.
Joe BidenThe military can buy our diplomats some time.
Jim MattisThe Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.
Colin PowellThe Marine Corps is the Navy’s police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin’s.
Harry S. TrumanCould I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.
Douglas MacArthurI do not pilfer victory.
Alexander the GreatIt is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.
Immanuel KantThe difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
H. L. MenckenIf you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.
EpictetusThe greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
SocratesAll honor’s wounds are self-inflicted.
Andrew CarnegieIt is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
Abraham LincolnSo long as I’m Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you’ve served us – because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home.
Barack ObamaWhen people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.
Dwight D. EisenhowerPiety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
AristotleI think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.
Thomas JeffersonHe chose to honor us with His priesthood. So we honor Him by honoring His priesthood – both its power and those who bear it.
Russell M. NelsonWhen there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
Herbert HooverHonor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
Alexander PopeIn war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
H. L. MenckenIt shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.
Richard M. NixonSoldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.
Napoleon BonaparteFor though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
AristotleMost people know nobody in the military.
Jim MattisThe higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.
Lao TzuIf 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.
William ShakespeareNothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.
George Washington