[SoothingDave]

I came here to kick ass and chew bubblegum...and I’m all out of bubblegum.

[catfish1957]

None from Stonewall Jackson? Hmmmmm.

[PJBankard]

I personally like Patton’s comments on war over Curtis Lemay’s:

“No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country.”

“May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won’t.”

“The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.”

[eastforker]

Dying ain’t much a way of making a living, boy. Outlaw Jose Wales

[Dawn53Fl]

Thanks for posting.

Best fictional manly quote, IMO:

Aragorn's speech at the Black Gate:

Aragorn: Sons of Gondor! Of Rohan! My brothers. I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of Men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of wolves and shattered shields when the Age of Men comes crashing down, but it is not this day! This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!

[detective]

Great Quotes.

But Roger Bannister was not an American.

[mouse1]

Let’s roll still gives me chills. That day could have been much worse.

[2banana]

War means fighting, and fighting means killing.
— General Nathan Bedford Forrest

Boys, do you hear that musketry and that artillery? It means that our friends are falling by the hundreds at the hands of the enemy, and here we are guarding a damned creek! Let’s go and help them. What do you say?
— General Nathan Bedford Forrest

“I ended the war a horse ahead.”
General Nathan Bedford Forrest who had 30 horses shot from under him

[1Old Pro]

Don’t forget one of Obama’s famous lines.....”FORE”

[Buttons12]

That one about being surrounded, wasn’t something like it said in the Civil War?

[Eccl 10:2]

Sorry to nitpick, but Roger Bannister was from England. Not that his wasn’t a great quote.

[nevergore]

I feel this post is a micro-aggression and racist since almost all the quotes are from dead white guys....

Somebody get me my Teddy bear.... /s

[wjcsux]

Later

[Savage Beast]

"I can hear you! The rest of the world hears you! And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon!"
— George W. Bush from the wreckage of the WTC, responding to someone who said they couldn't hear him

Yes, but from the voice of Donald Trump

[Doogle]

[ctdonath2]

Honorable mention: my tagline.

[equaviator]

Lee Iacocca was known to have said “If you can’t lead or follow then get the hell out of the way.”

[henkster]

Quote from a signalman on escort carrier Fanshaw Bay, at the Battle of Leyte Gulf, as the vastly superior Japanese fleet turns away when they were on the verge of sinking the slow, unarmored and now unprotected American carriers:

“Dammit boys, they’re getting away!”

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

You forgot "That's solid" by Linc......

[DuncanWaring]

Adm. James Bond Stockdale, reflecting on his time "checked-in" at the Hanoi Hilton:

This is a very important lesson. You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose—with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.