Famous Quotes & Sayings

Miguel Cabrera

Forget the veterans. They havent told me anything, and they better not come tell me anything, either.

A soldier is he whose blood makes the glory of the general.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

Norman Schwarzkopf

Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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

Moby

I believe that the role of limited government should be looking after the needs of veterans, the elderly, children and those institutions that improve the quality of life for struggling families - I don't believe that government should bend to serve the needs of subsidized multi-national corporations and entitled billionaires.

Kirsten Gillibrand

While we can't begin to repay the debt we owe our veterans for their brave service, we can certainly take steps to ease the physical, psychological and financial hardships they may be experiencing.

Kirsten Gillibrand

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.

Karl Marlantes

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

P. J. O'Rourke

The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

Lisa Kleypas

I’ll tell you what I’m fighting for. Not for England, nor her allies, nor any patriotic cause. It’s all come down to the hope of being with you..

Otto von Bismarck

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

James Longstreet

I hope to live long enough to see my surviving comrades march side by side with the Union veterans along Pennsylvania Avenue, and then I will die happy.

Eric Shinseki

More importantly, if you are in a position to hire, hire a veteran. They will be the best employees you have.

John McCain

So when someone, a veteran stands up and say, "Here are the facts on the VA." He [Donald Trump] says, "No, your facts are wrong." Turns out her facts are right and his facts are wrong.

Jimmy Carter

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

Henry Ward Beecher

If anyone, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him - it means just what Concord and Lexington meant; what Bunker Hill meant; 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.

Jim Ramstad

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

Craig Ferguson

It is Veterans Day, when we honor everyone who served in all of the campaigns. We honor them with dignity and respect, and of course mattress sales and tire discounts.

Tommy Amaker

We're an older, veteran team. Sometimes, that can work in your favor.

Aristotle

Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers.

You can't do that. We're a veteran team.

Bobby Cox

We have a lot of veterans and they know what they have to do.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Douglas MacArthur

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

Douglas MacArthur

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

In order to insure proper and widespread observance of this anniversary, all veterans, all veterans' organizations, and the entire citizenry will wish to join hands in the common purpose.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

That was not the biggest battle that ever was, but for me it always typified one thing; the dash, the ingenuity, the readiness at the first opportunity that characterizes the American soldier.

Doc Hastings

We owe our World War II veterans - and all our veterans - a debt we can never fully repay.

Steven Spielberg

My father had many, many veterans over to the house, and the older I got the more I appreciated their sacrifice.

Steve Buyer

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

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