Veterans Day Quotes - Page 4

Thank you for the sacrifices you and your families are making. Our Vietnam Veterans have taught us that no matter what are positions may be on policy, as Americans and patriots, we must support all of our soldiers with our thoughts and our prayers.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not. So I will throw Veterans' Day over my shoulder. Armistice Day I will keep. I don't want to throw away any sacred things. What else is sacred? Oh, Romeo and Juliet, for instance. And all music is.

When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are.

The 2.4 million bright, brave, incredibly fit and remarkably talented young Americans who have served in our armed forces since we were attacked on 9-11-01 are all volunteers. As General Petraeus put it during a conversation we had in Afghanistan, 'They all came or stayed, knowing they were going to war.' For more than a decade, these patriots and their loved ones have made extraordinary sacrifices for this country. They embody the classical definition of heroes: those who put themselves at risk for the benefit of others.

Twenty-five million veterans are living among us today. These men and women selflessly set aside their civilian lives to put on the uniform and serve us.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

America's veterans embody the ideals upon which America was founded more than 229 years ago.

Congress should stop treating veterans like they're asking for a hand out when it comes to the benefits they were promised, and they should realize that, were it not for these veterans, there would be nothing to hand out.

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.

Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.

You'll be scared! Sure you'll be scared. Who wouldn't fear having their head completely blown off.

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it until the test comes.

All of my high school male teachers were WWII and/or Korean War veterans. They taught my brothers and me the value of service to our country and reinforced what our dad had shown us about the meaning of service.

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.

If one, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him, It means just what Concord and Lexington meant, what Bunker Hill meant; it means the whole glorious Revolutionary War, which was, in short, the rising up of a valiant young people against an old tyranny, to establish the most momentous doctrine that the world had ever known - the right of men to their own selves and to their liberties.

The most certain way of ensuring victory is to march briskly and in good order against the enemy, always endeavouring to gain ground.

Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves.

Freedom is never free.

You'd have to go a long way to find someone who was more proud and grateful for what our veterans have done for all of us.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace.