Us Veterans Quotes:

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

- Michel de Montaigne

topic: Memorial Day, Courage, Veterans Day, Memorial Day Thank You, War Veteran

Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They're working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler.

- Barbara Bush

topic: Veterans Day, Work, Home, Wounded Veterans, Wounded Warrior

While only one day of the year is dedicated solely to honoring our veterans, Americans must never forget the sacrifices that many of our fellow countrymen have made to defend our country and protect our freedoms.

- Randy Neugebauer

topic: Country, Veterans Day, Military, Memorial Day Heroes, Countrymen

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Inspirational, Thank You, Thanksgiving, I Am Thankful, Inspirational Gratitude

The willingness of America's veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude.

- Jeff Miller

topic: Thanksgiving, Country, Veterans Day, Memorial Day Messages, Memorial Day Poems

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

source: Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

topic: Courage, Veterans Day, Strong, Strong Desire, Be Courageous

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

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Veterans Day, Liberty, Civil Rights, Christian Veterans Day, Constitution Of The United States

This year's Veterans Day celebration is especially significant as our country remains committed to fighting the War on Terror and as brave men and women are heroically defending our homeland.

- John Doolittle

topic: Country, Veterans Day, War, Veteran's Day, Thank A Veteran

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.

- Steve Buyer

topic: Veterans Day, Men, Selfless, Veterans Day Inspirational, Veterans Day Poems

America's veterans deserve the very best health care because they've earned it.

- Jim Ramstad

topic: America, Care, Veteran, Wounded Veterans, Veteran Appreciation

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

- Ronald Reagan

source: United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1984). “Ronald Reagan”

topic: Veterans Day, Money, Peace, War Veteran, Great War

We have met the enemy and they are ours.

- Oliver Hazard Perry

source: Message toWilliam Henry Harrison, 10 Sept. 1813. The source is Perry's dispatch from the U.S. brig Niagara to General Harrison, announcing that victory at the Battle of Lake Erie was secure. The dispatch was written in pencil on the back of an old letter; it is quoted in Robert B. McAfee, History of the LateWar in theWestern Country (1816). SeeWalt Kelly 2; Walt Kelly 3

topic: Military, Enemy, Mets, Military History, Military Soldier

Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.

- Bernard Malamud

source: Bernard Malamud (2003). “The Natural: A Novel”, p.148, Macmillan

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Veterans Day, Memorial Day Heroes, War Veteran

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

- Jimmy Carter

topic: Peace, Children, War, Make Peace Not War, Just War

The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

- Patrick Henry

topic: Inspirational, Courage, Veterans Day, Soldiers At War, Forged

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

- Zell Miller

source: 2004 Republican National Convention Address, delivered 1 September 2004, Madison Square Garden, New York

topic: Veterans Day, Military, Army, Joining The Army, Joining The Military

On this Veterans Day, let us remember the service of our veterans, and let us renew our national promise to fulfill our sacred obligations to our veterans and their families who have sacrificed so much so that we can live free.

- Dan Lipinski

topic: Veterans Day, Our Veterans, Promise, Live Free, Wounded Veterans

In Congress, while the House's proposed defense budget calls for significant increases, it also cuts 11 billion dollars from veterans spending - including healthcare and disability pay. Be clear: we can't equate spending on veterans with spending on defense.

- Jennifer Granholm

topic: Cutting, House, Pay, Defense Spending, Patriotic Veteran

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

- Billy Graham

topic: Motivational, Veterans Day, Memorial Day, Inspirational Courage, Memorial Day Heroes

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.

- Zach Wamp

topic: Thank You, Memorial Day, Prayer, Veteran Appreciation, Veteran's Day

Memorial Day isn't just about honoring veterans, its honoring those who lost their lives. Veterans had the fortune of coming home. For us, that's a reminder of when we come home we still have a responsibility to serve. It's a continuation of service that honors our country and those who fell defending it.

- Pete Hegseth

topic: Country, Memorial Day, Veterans Day, Memorial Day Messages, Memorial Day Poems

Honoring the sacrifices many have made for our country in the name of freedom and democracy is the very foundation of Veterans Day.

- Charles Rangel

source: "Fighting for Those Who Fight for Us" by Charles Rangel, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 8, 2013.

topic: Country, Veterans Day, Sacrifice, Veteran's Day, Veterans And Freedom

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

source: Richard Watson Gilder (1900). “Five Books of Song”

topic: Veterans Day, Men, Iron, Memorial Day Poems, Memorial Day Remembrance

The veterans of our military services have put their lives on the line to protect the freedoms that we enjoy. They have dedicated their lives to their country and deserve to be recognized for their commitment.

- Judd Gregg

topic: Country, Veterans Day, Military, Inspirational Military, Wounded Veterans

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

- Steve Buyer

topic: Veterans Day, Years, America, Military Veteran, Veteran Appreciation

While we can never truly repay the debt we owe our heroes, the least we should do for our brave veterans is to ensure that the government takes a proactive approach to delivering the services and benefits they have earned, so they can access the care they need and so richly deserve.

- Kirsten Gillibrand

topic: Veterans Day, Hero, Government, Veterans Bravery, Veterans Day Inspirational

To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country's service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations.

- Woodrow Wilson

topic: Country, Gratitude, Pride, Christian Veterans Day, Veteran's Day

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

- Elmer Davis

topic: Veterans Day, Courage, Memories, India Independence Day, Independence Day

The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive the Veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their nation.

- George Washington

topic: Military, War, People, Memorial Day Soldiers, Military Memorial

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

topic: Veterans Day, Grateful, Our Veterans, Veterans Day Inspirational, Veterans Day Poems

My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place - police, firefighters and members of our armed forces.

- Sidney Sheldon

topic: Thank You, Memorial Day, Veterans Day, Memorial Day Thank You, Protect And Serve

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

- Mark Twain

topic: Thank You, Memorial Day, Courage, Independence Day Patriotic, Inspirational Patriotic

America's Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world.

- John Doolittle

topic: Country, Veterans Day, America, Patriotic Veteran, Christian Veterans Day

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.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Country, Veterans Day, Brother, Military Soldier, Military Veteran

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

- Cynthia Ozick

source: Jamake Highwater (1997). “The Mythology of Transgression: Homosexuality as Metaphor”, Oxford University Press, USA

topic: Thank You, Thanksgiving, Thankful, Spiritual Gratitude, Inspirational Gratitude

When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?

- George Canning

source: George Canning (1826). “Poetical Works ...: Comprising the Whole of the Satires, Odes, Songs, and Other Poems”, p.26

topic: Thankful, Gratitude, Sleep, Thankful Heart, Veteran Appreciation

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

- Thucydides

source: Thucydides, Sir Richard Winn Livingstone (1960). “The History of the Peloponnesian War”, Oxford University Press, USA

topic: Positive, Courage, Vision, Inspirational Military, Memorial Day Messages

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

- Maya Angelou

topic: Veterans Day, Women, Hero, Fireman, Women Equality

From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent, and even here in our own hemisphere, our veterans have made the world a better place and America the great country we are today.

- John Hoeven

topic: Country, Veterans Day, War, Veteran's Day, Veterans Day Thank You