War Hero Quotes

• A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.

  E. W. Howe

  War, Food, Hero

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• If we take a small step in extolling peacemakers as much as honoring war heroes, we will be making a giant leap towards peace.

  Newton Lee

  War, Hero, Small Steps

  Newton Lee (2013). “Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness”, p.208, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.

  George C. Marshall

  Spiritual, Military, War

  "A Toolbox for Humanity: More Than 9000 Years of Thought". Book by Lloyd Albert Johnson, 2004.

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• Eisenhower was my war hero and the President I admire and respect most

  Ethel Merman

  War, Hero, President

  Ethel Merman, George Eells (1979). “Merman: an autobiography”, Berkley Pub Group

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• When my grandfather died, I started adopting some of his accents, to sort of remind myself of him. A homage. He was a war hero, and he was really great with his hands.

  Gavin DeGraw

  War, Hero, Hands

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• There never was a good war or a bad revolution.

  Edward Abbey

  Veterans Day, Peace, War

  Edward Abbey (1998). “The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel”, p.140, Macmillan

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• I remember seeing war hero Jimmy Doolittle fly a Gee Bee racer there. He was my childhood hero. Many years later, I was lucky enough to go hunting with him.

  Wally Schirra

  War, Hero, Hunting

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• Benedict Arnold was a war hero, wounded in battle--before he turned against his country. Hitler was likewise a decorated and wounded veteran of the First World War. Being a war hero is not a lifetime...exempt[ion]...from responsibility for what you do thereafter.

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, War, Hero

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• Women should be respected as well! Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn't women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?...Women, who struggle and suffer pain to ensure the continuation of the human race, make much tougher and more courageous soldiers than all those big-mouthed freedom-fighting heroes put together!

  Anne Frank

  Pain, War, Hero

  Anne Frank (2011). “The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition”, p.186, Bantam

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• In the book Soldiers on the Home Front, I was greatly struck by the fact that in childbirth alone, women commonly suffer more pain, illness and misery than any war hero ever does. An what's her reward for enduring all that pain? She gets pushed aside when she's disfigured by birth, her children soon leave, hear beauty is gone. Women, who struggle and suffer pain to ensure the continuation of the human race, make much tougher and more courageous soldiers than all those big-mouthed freedom-fighting heroes put together.

  Anne Frank

  Children, Pain, War

  FaceBook post by Anne Frank from May 10, 2015

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• Soon, he would become an adult. And when he did, there would be not going back because adulthood was akin to what his father had once said about being a war hero: one you became one, you died one.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Father, War, Hero

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• He [John McCain] hit me - he`s not a war hero.

  Donald Trump

  War, Hero, Mccain

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The story of Sherlock Holmes, on the surface, is about detection, but in reality, it's about the best of two men who save each other - a lost, washed-up war hero and a man who could end up committing murders instead of solving them. They come together. They become this perfect unit. They become the best friendship ever, and they become heroes. That's what we fall in love with, not Sherlock on his own. No one can love that man on his own, but Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson - the best friends ever.

  Steven Moffat

  Falling In Love, War, Hero

  "PBS restarts beloved franchise with 'Sherlock'" by Dave Walker, www.nola.com. October 24, 2010.

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• John Kerry speaks French fluently. Democrats are saying he's one in a million. A war hero who speaks French, isn't it more like one in a trillion?

  Jay Leno

  War, Hero, Speaks French

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• I wouldn't characterize anybody who fought in Vietnam as a war hero. In 23 bombing sorties, there must have been civilians that were killed and there's no heroism to that.

  Medea Benjamin

  War, Hero, Vietnam

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• Donald Trump got in some trouble for saying that John McCain is not a war hero, and said, 'I like people that weren't captured.' Not good. In fact, Trump's people are telling him to lay low for a while until this all combs over.

  Jimmy Fallon

  War, Hero, People

  "CNN Newsroom" with Carol Costello, www.cnn.com. July 21, 2015.

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• The New York Times is reporting that back in the '60s, presidential candidate Howard Dean used a letter from a doctor about a back condition to keep himself out of the draft in Vietnam and then spent 10 months skiing. Well it sounds like he's done the impossible. He actually made Bill Clinton and George Bush look like war heroes.

  Jay Leno

  New York, War, Hero

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• The Democrats are all over this. Democratic strategists feel John Kerry's war record means he can beat Bush. They say when it comes down to it voters will always vote for a war hero over someone who tried to get out of the war. I'll be sure to mention that to Bob Dole when I see him.

  Jay Leno

  War, Hero, Mean

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• If John McCain were really a war hero he would've won Vietnam.

  Zach Braff

  War, Hero, Vietnam

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• There in the city's steam-and-smoke-smudged harbor is the most extraordinary sight of all: a great copper-clad lady with a torch in one hand and a book in the other. It is not a statesman or a god or a war hero who welcomes us to this new world. It is but an ordinary woman lighting the way- a lady offering us the liberty to pursue our dreams if we've the courage to begin.

  Libba Bray

  Dream, War, Book

  Libba Bray (2009). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.535, Simon and Schuster

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• Seek midday nourishment. Visit memorial acclaimed war hero Colonel Sanders.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  War, Hero, Memorial

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• Some would assert that Providence was at work shaking out its pockets in Humanity's lap. Other would argue for that mindless choreographer, Chance. Either way it was a simple thing: a lost diary fell into the hands of a soul-sick war hero on a train from Bombay to Jaipur just when he'd grown tired of the scenery and needed something to keep his thoughts from the minefield of his wretched thoughts. In such mild ways is the groundwork laid for first kisses and ruined lives.

  Laini Taylor

  War, Hero, Tired

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• As always, there was an all-American war hero look to him, coded in his tousled brown hair, his summer-narrowed hazel eyes, the straight nose that ancient Anglo-Saxons had graciously passed on to him. Everything about him suggested valor and power and a firm handshake.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Summer, War, Hero

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.38, Scholastic Inc.

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• You take this cold, remarkable, difficult, dangerous, borderline psychopath man, and you wonder what might have happened to him had he not met his best friend, a friend that no one would have put him with, this solid, dependable, brave, big-hearted war hero. I think people fall in love, not with Sherlock Holmes or Dr. Watson, but with their friendship. I think it is the most famous friendship in fiction, without a doubt.

  Steven Moffat

  Friendship, Falling In Love, War

  "The Ax Interview: Showrunners Steven Moffat And Mark Gatiss On ‘Sherlock’ And ‘Doctor Who’". Interview with Abbie Bernstein, www.assignmentx.com. November 12, 2010.

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• Canada is lacking two things. It's true. Don't make me say it again. The first is Olympic Heroes [...] The second thing that Canada is lacking is Memorial Day, which is today by the way, where we in the States celebrate our war heroes by having barbeques . And I realize here in Canada you can't have barbeques because you'd probably be attacked by a moose, or caribou, or even a grizzly.

  Kurt Angle

  Memorial Day, War, Hero

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