Veterans Day Quotes
Collection of top 42 famous quotes about Veterans Day
Veterans Day Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Veterans Day quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
A few honest men are better than numbers.
— Oliver Cromwell
The precondition to freedom is security.
— Rand Beers
Honoring the sacrifices many have made for our country in the name of freedom and democracy is the very foundation of Veterans Day.
— Charles B. Rangel
The only thing that makes battle psychologically tolerable is the brotherhood among soldiers. You need each other to get by.
— Sebastian Junger
War should never be thought of as something autonomous, but always as an instrument of policy.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
Spending time with America's soldiers is always inspiring.
— John Boehner
America's Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world.
— John Doolittle
A soldier is he whose blood makes the glory of the general.
— Henry George Bohn
I am super proud of being an American, but we fail our veterans every day.
— Laurie Halse Anderson
It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
— Norman Schwarzkopf
Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
We owe our World War II veterans - and all our veterans - a debt we can never fully repay.
— Doc Hastings
Better than honor and glory, and History's iron pen, Was the thought of duty done and the love of his fellow-men.
— Richard Watson Gilder
When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
I go where the sound of thunder is.
— Alfred M. Gray
America's trying to do the best for its veterans.
— R. Lee Ermey
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
— Alexander Hamilton
Courage in danger is half the battle.
— Plautus
But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for, Is their monument to-day, and for aye.
— Thomas Dunn English
The willingness of America's veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude.
— Jeff Miller
Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
— H.L. Mencken
I think America as a whole has come more to terms with separating war from the warrior.
— Jeffrey Dunn
There never was a good war or a bad revolution.
— Edward Abbey
The thing is this: You got to have fun while you're fightin' for freedom, 'cause you don't always win.
— Molly Ivins
The guts carry the feet, not the feet the guts.
— Miguel De Cervantes
Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
— Douglas MacArthur
They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.
— Henry Ward Beecher
You'll be scared! Sure you'll be scared. Who wouldn't fear having their head completely blown off.
— Giulio Douhet
Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
We have met the enemy and they are ours.
— Oliver Hazard Perry
The most certain way of ensuring victory is to march briskly and in good order against the enemy, always endeavouring to gain ground.
— Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor