Browsing Topic Best Honoring Veterans Quotes

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

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

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

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

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.

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.

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man’s history is the beating of war drums.

They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.

Our veterans accepted the responsibility to defend America and uphold our values when duty called.

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

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

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

We make war that we may live in peace.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

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

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

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

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

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

There never was a good war or a bad revolution.

Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men

Our debt to the heroic men and valiant women in the service of our country can never be repaid. They have earned our undying gratitude. America will never forget their sacrifices.

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

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

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.

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

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers.