Audie Murphy

“I never liked being called the 'most decorated' soldier. There were so many other guys who were heroes; they just didn't get the medals.”

“They were the real heroes. I was just lucky.”

“I'm just a freckle-faced farm kid from Texas.”

“Freedom is something you have to fight for, live for, and die for.”

“War is a nasty, dirty business. You have to be a little bit of a bastard to be a good soldier.”

“You learn to live with it, but you never get over it.”

“The real heroes are the guys who died. I'm just a survivor.”

“After the war, they took the dogs and rehabilitated them for civilian life. But they left the dogs of war to fend for themselves.”

“I was a specialist in the art of killing.”

“The go-to-hells were my favorite words.”

“Courage isn't the absence of fear, but the master of it.”

“I've seen too much to be silent.”

“We are all of us, to a greater or lesser degree, prisoners of our memories.”

“I can't ever remember being a kid. I was always working.”