Quotes by Audie Murphy

About Audie Murphy:

Audie Leon Murphy was one of the most decorated American combat soldiers of World War II, receiving every military combat award for valor available from the U.S. Army, as well as French and Belgian awards for heroism. At the age of 19, Murphy received the Medal of Honor after single-handedly holding off an entire company of German soldiers for an hour at the Colmar Pocket in France in January 1945, then leading a successful counterattack while wounded and out of ammunition.
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Now comes the picture of mass defeat, the most awesome spectacle of the war. It is in the bent bodies of old women who poke among ruins seeking some miserable object that will link their lives with the old days. It is in the shamed darting eyes of th...

Audie Murphy

And freedom is what America means to the world.

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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

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

Audie Murphy

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

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.

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No soldier ever really survives a war.

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Author Bio

  • NameAudie Murphy
  • DescriptionU.S. soldier and actor
  • AliasesAudie Leon Murphy; Audie L. Murphy
  • BornJune 20, 1924
  • DiedMay 28, 1971
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Soldier; Songwriter; Author; Composer
  • AwardsKnight Of The Legion Of Honour; Croix De Guerre 1939–1945; Medal Of Honor; Bronze Star Medal; Legionnaire Of Legion Of Merit; Purple Heart; Texas Legislative Medal Of Honor; Silver Star