Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

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.

Jill Scott

I love when I am around a veteran in [show] business. Because I can dig and ask questions, and find out the "who" and "what" of it all.

Jim Bridenstine

Disabled veterans are not a bargaining chip.

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.

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.

Bobby Cox

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

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.

Caroline Paul

In a fire, you have to be thoughtful; you have to have a certain kind of intuitive smarts that the veterans have. I'm not there yet, despite the Stanford degree.

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.

Jim Davis

You'd have to go a long way to find someone who was more proud and grateful for what our veterans have done for all of us.

It's going to go a long way to recognizing the outstanding work done by veteran teachers.

Jim Ramstad

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

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.

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.

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.

Patti Davis

I would not call myself a veteran conspiracy theorist. Or an obsessed one. I pretty much peaked on the whole conspiracy theory thing in the '60s, with the grassy knoll, who really killed JFK, and who ordered the hit on Lee Harvey Oswald.

Sebastian Junger

War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of.

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.

Miguel de Cervantes

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

Philip Sidney

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

Maya Angelou

Freedom is never free.