Quotes About Audie Murphy

#1. Audie Murphy remains a shining example for anyone who believes in the importance of service, for generations now and into the future.

Rick Perry

#2. I'm glad that it didn't take as long to get Shepard off the ground as it's taken this series. I'd begun to think the Congo would be ahead of us in the space race before Whispering Smith ever got on the air.

Audie Murphy

#3. I'll tell you what bravery really is. Bravery is just determination to do a job that you know has to be done.

Audie Murphy

#4. No soldier ever really survives a war.

Audie Murphy

#5. Sometimes it takes more courage to get up and run than to stay. You either just do it or you don't. I got so scared the first day in combat I just decided to go along with it.

Audie Murphy

#6. I still don't know if I can write songs. I don't think anyone ever knows if they can write songs.

Ellie Goulding

#7. And freedom is what America means to the world.

Audie Murphy

#8. Actual combat experience is the only teacher. You never come out of a skirmish without having picked up a couple of new tricks; without having learned more about your enemy ... Total involvement with the war was the only thing that kept me alive and pushing.

Audie Murphy

#9. The threat to Europe comes not in the form of uniforms, but in the tattered garb of refugees,

Robert D. Kaplan

#10. The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts.

Bergen Evans

#11. I've always written for actors, and if you want to write for good actors, you have to write parts that are surprising, that are human, and that allow them to go to a wide range of places.

Peter Hedges

#12. We all need to stomp out balkanization. No Spanish radio stations, no Spanish billboards, no Spanish TV stations, no Spanish newspapers. This is America, speak English.

John Huppenthal

#13. I Knew why I felt at home. The spirit of freedom was hovering over that play yard as it did all over France at that time. A country was free again.

Audie Murphy

#14. Lead from the front.

Audie Murphy

#15. Research has found that loss of bone density may be an even better predictor of death from atherosclerotic disease than cholesterol levels.

Atul Gawande

#16. It's not easy to shed the idea that human life is sacred.

Audie Murphy

#17. Let each man hear his own music and live by it. The drums roll one way for one man, and another way for another. You have to listen for your own.

Audie Murphy

#18. After the war, they took Army dogs and rehabilitated them for civilian life. But they turned soldiers into civilians immediately, and let em sink or swim.

Audie Murphy

#19. Now I have shed my first blood. I feel no qualms, no pride, no remorse. There is only a weary indifference that will follow me throughout the war.

Audie Murphy

#20. I was scared before every battle. That old instinct of self-preservation is a pretty basic thing, but while the action was going on some part of my mind shut off and my training and discipline took over. I did what I had to do.

Audie Murphy

#21. Consider that children grow more quickly in spring and summer than in fall and winter, and that this is apparently due to sunlight signals that enter through the eyeballs, since the growth of totally blind children consists of similar fluctuations but are not synchronized with the seasons.

David Epstein

#22. I never liked being called the 'most decorated' soldier. There were so many guys who should have gotten medals and never did
guys who were killed.

Audie Murphy

#23. They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that.

Audie Murphy