Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Jimmy Carter

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Bobby Cox

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

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.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

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.

Miguel de Cervantes

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

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.