Veterans Day Quotes

So shines a good deed... in a weary world.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

On the battlefield, the military pledges to leave no soldier behind. As a nation, let it be our pledge that when they return home, we leave no veteran behind.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

I want you to know, that you deserve the best. You're beautiful.

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

Freedom lies in being bold.

We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.

Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.

To honor our national promise to our veterans, we must continue to improve services for our men and women in uniform today and provide long overdue benefits for the veterans and military retirees who have already served.

How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth?