Hal Moore famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

American soldiers in battle don't fight for what some president says on T.V., they don't fight for mom, apple pie, the American flag...they fight for one another.
-- Hal Moore

#Mom #Army #Fighting
When we step on the battlefield, I will be The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
-- Hal Moore

#Niece #Boots #Lasts
Tell the Truth, and speak from your pay-grade. Don't try to answer questions that would better be directed to the battalion commander or Gen. William Westmoreland or President Lyndon Johnson. If you are a squad leader, answer questions about what you know and do.
-- Hal Moore

#Military #Squad #Leader
Hate war, but love the American Warrior.
-- Hal Moore

#Hate #Military #War
There is always one more thing you can do to increase your odds of success.
-- Hal Moore

#Odds #Increase
Ignore their heathen prayers and help us blow those little bastards [the Viet Cong] straight to Hell. Amen.
-- Hal Moore

#Prayer #Blow #Politics
For a sailor to sail around the world, the thought is just, sometimes, too much. Thus, one simply goes from port to port in the same direction.
-- Hal Moore

#World #Too Much #Sailor

My dad is a chemical engineer, and my mom was a teacher. They were pretty serious about education, but I always thought about things a little bit differently.
It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from 'Dear Abby' instead of going to Mom and Dad.
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.
Tell you what, if there were gays in the army 'Saving Private Ryan' would have been a hell of a lot shorter film. There is no way it would take gay men three hours to find Matt Damon.
When I was a kid you always heard about the Israeli army and you always heard about this tiny little country and how everyone around them wants them gone, and every time somebody comes after them they take care of business. And so as a Jewish kid you were proud of that.
But now, instead of discussion and argument, brute force rises up to the rescue of discomfited error, and crushes truth and right into the dust. 'Might makes right,' and hoary folly totters on in her mad career escorted by armies and navies.
We can't fight and beg from those we fight at the same time.
Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.
I think we are constantly faced with the same decision. The decision to be blindly obedient to authority versus the decision to try and change things by fighting the powers that be is always, throughout history, the only decision.

Hal Moore famous quotes

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