Veterans Quotes
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Veterans Quotes & Sayings
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I learned a lot from Vietnam veterans, especially as some of them turned against their own war.
— Robert Jay Lifton
I'm extremely grateful to all the first responders, veterans and their families for all their sacrifices.
— Taya Kyle
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
Whether it's developers or industry veterans on the business side, top talent likes to work together.
— Brendan Iribe
We've found when soldiers help other soldiers, or military members of any service, it helps them, too.
— Valerie Ormond
If you want to reinstate the 14.4 billion dollars that Bush cut out of the veterans program then vote democrat.
— David Cross
color, from badger-colored veterans who could handle
— Rudyard Kipling
One of the primary reasons I first ran for Congress was to be a voice for our troops, veterans and military families.
— Kirsten Gillibrand
America's Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world.
— John Doolittle
Because Vietnam was not a declared war, the veterans are not even eligible for the G. I. Bill of Rights with respect to education or anything.
— Ronald Reagan
Veteran art creates a meeting place between veterans and civilians, or simply between veterans with different experiences.
— Phil Klay
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
I spent five years working very hard to develop a relationship with the veterans' service organizations. We have together worked some major projects.
— Eric Shinseki
Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
How else to explain the accomplishments of a warrior such as Artemis Entreri, who could outfight many drow veterans ten times his age?
— R.A. Salvatore
Emmy Lou Harris introduced me to the work of the Vietnam Veterans of America foundation and the Campaign for a Land Mine Free World.
— Mary Chapin Carpenter
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— Barbara Longley
Makin' veterans run for medicine,
Cause I put out more lights in a fight than ConEdison. — Kool G Rap
Cause I put out more lights in a fight than ConEdison. — Kool G Rap
Brave rifles! Veterans! You have been baptized in fire and blood and have come out steel!
— Winfield Scott
I think our veterans certainly deserve and have earned the best health care in the world.
— Phil Roe
Since the Revolution, eight generations of America's veterans have established an unbroken commitment to freedom.
— Steve Buyer
I will continue to work diligently in Congress to ensure that our veterans receive the benefits and care that they have earned and deserve.
— Todd Tiahrt
Times were tough but when you're
young and have a loving family you know that you will all get through it. — Bob Richardson
young and have a loving family you know that you will all get through it. — Bob Richardson
The moon gives you light, and the bugles and the drums give you music, and my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans, my heart gives you love.
— Walt Whitman
You'll be scared! Sure you'll be scared. Who wouldn't fear having their head completely blown off.
— Giulio Douhet
Sound advice comes from veterans of pain.
— Charles R. Swindoll
Killing is the ultimate refutation of our own humanity.
— Kevin Sites
Be your OWN celebrity!
— Jamie McCall
We owe our World War II veterans - and all our veterans - a debt we can never fully repay.
— Doc Hastings
Forget the veterans. They havent told me anything, and they better not come tell me anything, either.
— Miguel Cabrera
The guts carry the feet, not the feet the guts.
— Miguel De Cervantes
One legged veterans will greet the dawn, and they're whistling marches as they mow the lawn, and the gargoyles on sit and grieve.
— Phil Ochs
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
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.
— Jim Davis
When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
— Karl Marlantes
I have veterans in my family. But I didn't know anything about DAV, Disabled American Veterans.
— Gary Sinise
I always want to portray veterans in a positive light, and since I got into acting full time, I've made that part of my goal.
— Jon Huertas
Having been to war myself, I do not understand why so many people are so in love with it.
— Michel Templet
When you have 8,000 veterans a year committing suicide, then you have a serious problem,
— Johnny Isakson
We have met the enemy and they are ours.
— Oliver Hazard Perry
Marriage - as its veterans know well - is the continuous process of getting used to things you hadn't expected.
— Thomas Mullen
Clinics are clogged with too many veterans who don't need to be there, siphoning resources from those, like Eddie, who do.
— Laura Beil
We need our veterans to set an example, like being the first ones there. A veteran is entitled to a bigger paycheck, but not a special set of rules.
— Jim Leyland
In the aftermath, we are because they were.
— RJ Heller
Napoleon was criticized for giving "toys" to war-hardened veterans, and Napoleon replied, "Men are ruled by toys.
— Dale Carnegie
On Veterans Day, we take time to honor those men and women who bravely serve and have served our nation in the U.S. Armed Forces.
— Todd Tiahrt
Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
One difficulty that someone who has been in military/government service during war has, is reconciling his/her pride with their horror.
— Kari Martindale
SHOCK ABSORBERS
Veterans scream in their dreams, reliving nightmares so that we can sleep peacefully — Kamil Ali
Veterans scream in their dreams, reliving nightmares so that we can sleep peacefully — Kamil Ali
In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
— H.L. Mencken
When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Suicide is now the leading cause of death for US service members and veterans, far outstripping combat-related deaths.
— Cara Hoffman
I hear daily from Hoosier veterans who are forced to wait months on end for their disability claims to be processed. Unfortunately, this is typical.
— Jackie Walorski
Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
I had lots of friends who were fighting in Vietnam and I am still friends with veterans of the war.
— Gordon Lightfoot
Our veterans deserve the very best, and that means ensuring that America's veterans receive high-quality services and cares when they come back home.
— Elizabeth Warren
I think America as a whole has come more to terms with separating war from the warrior.
— Jeffrey Dunn
NBC has suspended Brian Williams for six months without pay. Williams said he's not worried because soon his veterans benefits will kick in.
— Conan O'Brien
The willingness of America's veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude.
— Jeff Miller
In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder.
— Jan Karon
I remain committed to improving the government services to which Hudson Valley veterans are entitled.
— Sue Kelly
Truth has a resonance to it that fills the cracks where falsehoods lie.
— Rick DeStefanis
Killing people is easier than it should be." Dad put on his beret. "Staying alive is harder.
— Laurie Halse Anderson
The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought.
— Kurt Vonnegut
My father had many, many veterans over to the house, and the older I got the more I appreciated their sacrifice.
— Steven Spielberg
we're all veterans of a fucked-up world. No one gets out without their scars. Some of us just hide them better than others." She
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
I'm sick of the cover-ups, I'm sick of the lies, and so are the bloody veterans, that come out daily of the department's mouth.
— Malcolm Turnbull
They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.
— Henry Ward Beecher
I saw the Vietnam Veterans Memorial not as an object placed into the earth but as a cut in the earth that has then been polished, like a geode.
— Maya Lin
Like the archers of Agincourt, John O'Neal and the 254 Swiftboat Veterans took down their own haughty Frenchman.
— Ann Coulter
We've got to continue to find ways to honor our 25 million veterans that have served our country with such honor and distinction.
— Zach Wamp
There will be no veterans of World War III.
— Walter F. Mondale
Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
— Douglas MacArthur
I started a theater called Steppenwolf. We've been very supportive of the veterans there.
— Gary Sinise
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 truth will set you free!
— Linda Diane Wattley
The world doesn't owe anyone a living - including veterans.
— Frank D. Gilroy
Our veterans accepted the responsibility to defend America and uphold our values when duty called.
— Bill Shuster
55 percent - about 1.4 million veterans among this generation - said they feel disconnected from civilian life in America.
— Howard Schultz
One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you'd see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.
— George H. W. Bush
We pretended there was no problem with Agent Orange after Vietnam and later the Pentagon recanted, after untold suffering by veterans.
— Jim McDermott
It is essential that we provide the best possible care for our wounded and disabled veterans.
— Tom Udall
The thing is this: You got to have fun while you're fightin' for freedom, 'cause you don't always win.
— Molly Ivins
Everybody respects the Vietnam Veterans of America.
— R. Lee Ermey
There never was a good war or a bad revolution.
— Edward Abbey
One look at each other and it was immediately understood that they both needed a clean slate,,, The obliteration of memory.
— Colum McCann
I find it significant that most military veterans become pacifists.
— Michel Templet