Military Sayings 🎖️👮🏼‍♂️ in 2025

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste death but once.

We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us.

It is long since I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value

Word to the Nation: Guard zealously your right to serve in the Armed Forces, for without them, there will be no other rights to guard.

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself

A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.

Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.

A safe army is better than a safe border

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

Fortune favors the brave.

It is a proud privilege to be a soldier – a good soldier … [with] discipline, self-respect, pride in his unit and his country, a high sense of duty and obligation to comrades and to his superiors, and a self-confidence born of demonstrated ability.

Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.

The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men.

No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.

A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

We live in a world that has walls and those walls need to be guarded by men with guns.

If you wage war, do it energetically and with severity. This is the only way to make it shorter and consequently less inhuman.