Famous Quotes & Sayings

Miguel de Cervantes

The guts carry the feet, not the feet the guts.

Todd Tiahrt

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.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Erich Maria Remarque

No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.

Miguel Olivo

The veterans do the same things. It's a part of baseball. We can't say it's just because we're young.

George Washington

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.

Sue Kelly

The sacrifices made by veterans and their willingness to fight in defense of our nation merit our deep respect and praise - and to the best in benefits and medical care.

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.

Nick Lampson

But this Veterans Day, I believe we should do more than sing the praises of the bravery and patriotism that our veterans have embodied in the past. We should take this opportunity to re-evaluate how we are treating our veterans in the present.

Philip Sidney

A brave captain is as a root, out of which, as branches, the courage of his soldiers doth spring.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We, too, born to freedom, and believing in freedom, are willing to fight to maintain freedom. We, and all others who believe as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Maya Angelou

Freedom is never free.

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.

Jimmy Carter

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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

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

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..

Jim Ramstad

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

Thomas Paine

These are the times that try men's souls.

Thomas Paine

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

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.

Steve Buyer

Because all of us believe and understand in the fabric of the common bond of why we call ourselves American is to care for the men and women who wear the uniform; and when they take off the uniform, we care for them when they are veterans.

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.

Solomon Ortiz

To honor our national promise to our veterans, we must continue to improve services for our men and women in uniform today and provide long overdue benefits for the veterans and military retirees who have already served.

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.

Ronald Reagan

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

Ronald Reagan

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.

Ronald Reagan

Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem.

Zell Miller

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