Skip to content

I don't know what a hero is. This business of the captain taking all the credit, ordering someone else and so forth -- that's not it. The men who do the actual fighting, man the guns, they're the guys that really win the war.

— John D. Bulkeley

Another quote →

More quotes by John D. Bulkeley

When you run into the enemy, you’ve got to attack, no question about it.

What else could I do? You engage, you fight, you win. That is the reputation of our Navy, then and in the future.

As far as the Breakout is that...Breakout, itself is concerned, it was dark, and it was a rather rainy, misty night. We went at high speed, ran through the mine fields, which we knew like the palm of our hands...no problem at all.

All John D. Bulkeley quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: John D. Bulkeley (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.