Famous Quotes & Sayings

We started to get a little impatient. And they showed they are a veteran team.

Dick Durbin

It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes to disability pay. We owe our disabled veterans more than speeches, parades and monuments.

Clay Walker

We're a veteran line. We should get it done.

Jan Karon

In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder.

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.

Arthur Koestler

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

Tommy Amaker

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

Edward Abbey

There never was a good war or a bad revolution.

Aristotle

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

Dick Cheney

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

Bill Owens

If you ask me to compromise on principle, I will get out the veto pen.

Zach Duke

You'd like to have that veteran presence. But I think if we are being successful, there is no such thing as too much youth.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Carl Sandburg

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it until the test comes.

Carl von Clausewitz

War should never be thought of as something autonomous, but always as an instrument of policy.

Barbara Bush

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.

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

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Douglas MacArthur

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

Douglas MacArthur

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

Donald Trump

We have no borders. Our vets are being treated horribly. Illegal immigration is beyond belief.

Donald Trump

By the way, the V.A. has some great doctors. I've been told by some of the veterans the doctors are great when you can get to see them in many cases.

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.

Dan Lipinski

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.

Daniel Webster

It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.

David Letterman

Today is Veterans Day. Thank you to all our men and women who have served the United States armed forces. In honor of Veterans Day we are marching out a few jokes that have already served.

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

Kurt Vonnegut

Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not.

Antonio Pierce

We now have some depth, some veteran depth.

Bill Shuster

America's veterans and troops serving abroad today fought hard to preserve our red, white and blue, from the Revolutionary War to today's Global War Against Terrorism, and Congress' action today is appropriate for one of our most sacred symbols.

Bill Shuster

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

It does feel a little different with this veteran lineup. Everybody's been through it all before.