Col Hal Moore Quotes

#1. Timid young artists, adding parental fears to their own, often give up their sunny dreams of artistic careers, settling into the twilight world of could-have-beens and regrets.

Julia Cameron

#2. Hate war, but love the American Warrior.

Hal Moore

#3. When we step on the battlefield, I will be The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.

Hal Moore

#4. 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

#5. Ignore their heathen prayers and help us blow those little bastards [the Viet Cong] straight to Hell. Amen.

Hal Moore

#6. 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

#7. I think he thinks about girlfriend like some kind of honorary title, like the way that every president is still 'President So and So,' no matter who's currently in office.

Holly Black

#8. Yes. Now I'm a partner for one of the biggest law firms in Dallas.

Megan D. Martin

#9. Britons seem to have given up on assimilating their Muslim population, with many British elites patting themselves on the back for their tolerance and multiculturalism.

Linda Chavez

#10. It seems that entertainment is what most excites us and what we value above everything else.

Carroll O'Connor

#11. I guess some problems were too big to fix and you just hoped they would take care of themselves.

Ryan C. Thomas

#12. There is always one more thing you can do to increase your odds of success.

Hal Moore

#13. 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