War hero Quotes

“Grant made the perfect candidate, a war hero with indistinct views on most political issues.”

“It's an old and honored tradition for war heroes to be promoted to important offices, whether or not they're suited to it”

“Asked to explain how he became a war hero he (Kennedy) responded, "It was involuntary. They think my boat.”

“I met Jack Kennedy in November, 1946. We were both war heroes, and both of us had just been elected to Congress.”

“My name is Hazel. I started out as an idea, but I ended up something more. Not much more, to be honest. It's not like I grow up to become some great war hero or any sort of all important savior... but thanks to these two, at least I get to grow old.Not everybody does.”

“The comparison might strike you as farfetched. What (you might be asking) can a Broadway musical possibly add to the legacy of a Founding Father--a giant of our national life, a war hero, a scholar, a statesman? What's one little play, or even one very big play, next to all that? But there is more than one way to change the world . To secure their freedom, the polyglot American colonists had to come together, and stick together, in the face of enormous adversity. To live in a new way, they first had to think and feel in a new way. It took guns and ships to win the American Revolution, but it also required pamphlets and speeches--and at least one play.”

“To be defeated, but not to give in, is victory.- Jósef Piłsudski”

“I have lived now for over a century, yet I can still say with complete confidence that no one can claim to have plumbed the depths of human misery who has not shared the fore-ends of a submarine with a camel.”