James Robinson Risner Quotes

1925–2013 United States

James Robinson "Robbie" Risner (January 16, 1925 – October 22, 2013) was a Brigadier General, fighter pilot in the United States Air Force, and a senior leader among U.S. prisoners of war during the Vietnam War.

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Resist until you are tortured, but do not take torture to the point where you lose the permanent use of your limbs.

I never lost hope, and never did I despair of coming back alive.

Korea was probably the high point of my whole career as far as real gratification is concerned.

Fear is a luxury one can’t afford.

I felt the South Vietnamese had a right to their own self-determination. And I was over there to help them to maintain that self-determination.

Vietnam: A Television History; Interview with Robinson Risner (1981)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: James Robinson Risner (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.