Memorable Veterans Quotes

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"The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one’s country."
George S. Patton
"It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us the freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us the freedom of speech."
Zakaria Botros
"For those who fought for it, freedom has a flavor the protected will never know."
Anonymous
"Veterans are a symbol of what makes our nation great, and we must never forget all they have given us."
Dan Lipinski
"To be a veteran is to know the scars of war. They are not physical. They are mental and emotional. Each scar has a story and represents a life lived."
Bradley Graham
"The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave."
Patrick Henry
"Home of the free, because of the brave."
Unknown
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"Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay."
Barack Obama
"A veteran is someone who, at one point in their life, wrote a blank check made payable to 'The United States of America' for an amount of 'up to and including my life.' "
Anonymous
"It is not how these soldiers died that made them heroes, but how they lived."
Vera Kristan
"When you go home, tell them of us and say, for your tomorrow, we gave our today."
John Maxwell Edmonds
"The willingness of America’s veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude."
Jeff Miller
"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility lies in being superior to your former self."
Ernest Hemingway
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
George Santayana
"In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons."
Herodotus
"A soldier doesn’t fight because he hates what is in front of him; he fights because he loves what he left behind."
Unknown
"War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate."
Marvin Gaye
"Their sacrifices make us who we are as a nation."
Joe Biden
"It takes a special hero to fight for those unable to do so."
Anonymous
"The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity."
Seneca
"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
Abraham Lincoln
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it."
Nelson Mandela
"We don’t know them all, but we owe them all."
Unknown
"The soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner’s chains."
Anonymous
"Old soldiers never die; they just fade away."
General Douglas MacArthur
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"A nation that forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten."
Calvin Coolidge
"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."
Ernest Hemingway
"A good soldier knows that he is ultimately part of something larger than himself."
Anonymous
"War is not about who is right, but who is left."
Anonymous
"The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example."
Benjamin Disraeli
"The best way to ensure a future free from war is to provide a decent life and a just society for all."
Pope Francis
"Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth."
Muhammad Ali
"Let us not take for granted the privilege of living our lives in freedom."
Anonymous
"I think that the most important thing we can do is to support our troops and to remember the sacrifices they made."
Anonymous
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"The soldier doesn’t feel the burden of his pack, for his heart is in the fight."
Anonymous
"A soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what he leaves behind."
G.K. Chesterton
"The brave men, living and dead, who served in the armed forces deserve the very best we can give."
Bob Dole
"It is our duty to pay it back, and pay it forward."
Tom Brokaw
"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."
Winston Churchill
"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
"A veteran is someone who, at one point in their life, wrote a blank check made payable to 'The United States of America,' for an amount of 'up to and including my life.'"
Anonymous
"Our nation's veterans embody the ideals upon which America was founded."
Dan Lipinski
"The soldier is the army. No army is better than its soldiers."
George S. Patton
"Our veterans have written that blank check with their lives. It's our responsibility to honor them."
Jim Bauer
"To be a veteran is to be part of a special group that has served a greater purpose."
Anonymous
"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
"Freedom is the oxygen of the soul."
Moshe Dayan
"The only thing harder than getting a veteran into a job is preserving that job."
Seth Moulton
"The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him."
G.K. Chesterton
"Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time."
Marion Wright Edelman
"A nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure."
Abraham Lincoln
"Our debt to the heroic men and valiant women in the service of our country can never be repaid."
Harry S. Truman
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
Nelson Mandela
"Take the time to deliberate; but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"Each of us is a part of the tapestry of America; it is the veterans who have given us the colors."
Anonymous
"The cost of freedom is eternal vigilance."
Thomas Jefferson
"The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree."
Thomas Campbell
"In war, there are no unwounded soldiers."
José Narosky
"It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech."
Walter Scott
"A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself."
Joseph Campbell
"No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he is vigilant in its preservation."
General Douglas MacArthur
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."
Thomas Jefferson
"Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul."
Michel de Montaigne
"Our nation's debt to the heroic men and valiant women in the service of our country can never be repaid. It is, rather, a testament to our gratitude."
Dave Brubeck
"A good soldier is a poor strategist."
David Galula
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."
Mark Twain
"The soldier's motto is not to surrender; it is to endure."
Anne-Marie O'Connor
"The legacies we leave our children is the greatest monument we can build to those who served."
Allan M. Apsley
"To care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan."
Abraham Lincoln
"Freedom is never free."
Unknown
"In order to be a leader, you must be a great follower."
Proverb
"What counts in war is not the courage of the soldier but the preparation of his leaders."
Benjamin Disraeli
"The greatest glory of a free-born people is to transmit that freedom to their children."
William A. Dunning
"The soldier doesn't fight because he hates what is in front of him; he fights because he loves what he left behind."
Unknown
"We don't know them all, but we owe them all."
Unknown
"Veterans are a symbol of what makes our country great."
Rudolph W. Giuliani
"Bravery is being the only one who knows you are afraid."
Franklin P. Jones
"The willingness of America's veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude."
Jeff Miller
"Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be."
Douglas MacArthur
"The soldier's heart, the soldier's spirit, the soldier's soul are molded out of the brutality of war."
George Catlett Marshall
"Honor the sacred memory of our fallen soldiers."
Barbara Boxer
"To those who have fought for it, freedom has a flavor the protected will never know."
Unknown
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