Top veterans day Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of veterans day quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Zell Miller
It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.
- Zell Miller
Collection: Veterans Day
Image 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.
- Todd Tiahrt
Collection: Veterans Day
Image of Henry George Bohn
A soldier is he whose blood makes the glory of the general.
- Henry George Bohn
Collection: Veterans Day
Image of Jose Narosky
In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.
- Jose Narosky
Collection: Veterans Day
Image of James Baker
If you're not gonna pull the trigger, don't point the gun.
- James Baker
Collection: Veterans Day
Image of Giulio Douhet
You'll be scared! Sure you'll be scared. Who wouldn't fear having their head completely blown off.
- Giulio Douhet
Collection: Veterans Day
Image of 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.
- Caroline Paul
Collection: Veterans Day
Image of Jeffrey Dunn
I think America as a whole has come more to terms with separating war from the warrior.
- Jeffrey Dunn
Collection: Veterans Day
Image of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
The most certain way of ensuring victory is to march briskly and in good order against the enemy, always endeavouring to gain ground.
- Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
Collection: Veterans Day
Image of Bob Hope
I was there. I saw your sons and your husbands, your brothers and your sweethearts. I saw how they worked, played, fought, and lived. I saw some of them die. I saw more courage, more good humor in the face of discomfort, more love in an era of hate and more devotion to duty than could exist under tyranny.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Veterans Day
Image of Sebastian Junger
War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of.
- Sebastian Junger
Collection: Veterans Day
Image of 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.
- Jan Karon
Collection: Veterans Day
Image of Erich Maria Remarque
No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.
- Erich Maria Remarque
Collection: Veterans Day
Image of Kurt Vonnegut
Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not. So I will throw Veterans' Day over my shoulder. Armistice Day I will keep. I don't want to throw away any sacred things. What else is sacred? Oh, Romeo and Juliet, for instance. And all music is.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Collection: Veterans Day
Image of Edward Abbey
There never was a good war or a bad revolution.
- Edward Abbey
Collection: Veterans Day
Image of Henry Ward Beecher
If one, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him, It means just what Concord and Lexington meant, what Bunker Hill meant; it means the whole glorious Revolutionary War, 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.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Collection: Veterans Day
Image of Ronald Reagan
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
- Ronald Reagan
Collection: Veterans Day
Image of Franklin D. Roosevelt
We, too, born to freedom, and believing in freedom, are willing to fight to maintain freedom. We, and all others who believe as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Collection: Veterans Day
Image of Tacitus
In valor there is hope.
- Tacitus
Collection: Veterans Day
Image of Kurt Vonnegut
Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Collection: Veterans Day
Image of Henry Ward Beecher
Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
- Henry Ward Beecher
Collection: Veterans Day
Image of Carl Sandburg
Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it until the test comes.
- Carl Sandburg
Collection: Veterans Day
Image of 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 Washington
Collection: Veterans Day
Image of Carl von Clausewitz
War should never be thought of as something autonomous, but always as an instrument of policy.
- Carl von Clausewitz
Collection: Veterans Day
Image of Miguel de Cervantes
The guts carry the feet, not the feet the guts.
- Miguel de Cervantes
Collection: Veterans Day
Image of James Mattis
You've been told that you're broken, that you're damaged goods and should be labeled victims. I don't buy it. The truth, instead, is that you are the only folks with the skills, determination, and values to ensure American dominance in this chaotic world.
- James Mattis
Collection: Veterans Day
Image of Jamie Lee Curtis
We sit at our consoles and play "Gears of War", but we don't see images from war. We don't turn on the news and see the evidence of war, the result of war. Maybe twice a year, Memorial Day, Veterans Day, we'll go out, we'll hang our flags, we'll try to inculcate in our children some sense of national honor for the fallen. But really, we don't see it. We just don't see the pictures. There's no drive-by on the freeway of death up close. So we don't really see bravery.
- Jamie Lee Curtis
Collection: Veterans Day
Image of 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.
- Craig Ferguson
Collection: Veterans Day
Image of 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.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Collection: Veterans Day
Image of Maya Angelou
Freedom is never free.
- Maya Angelou
Collection: Veterans Day
Image of 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
Collection: Veterans Day
Image of Aristotle
Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers.
- Aristotle
Collection: Veterans Day
Image of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Collection: Veterans Day
Image of 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.
- Lisa Kleypas
Collection: Veterans Day
Image of 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.
- David Letterman
Collection: Veterans Day
Image of Thomas Paine
These are the times that try men’s souls.
- Thomas Paine
Collection: Veterans Day
Image of Norman Schwarzkopf
It doesn’t take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
- Norman Schwarzkopf
Collection: Veterans Day
Image of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Lord, bid war’s trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Collection: Veterans Day
Image of Mel Gibson
They may take our lives, but they’ll never take our freedom!
- Mel Gibson
Collection: Veterans Day
Image of Richard Watson Gilder
Better than honor and glory, and History’s iron pen, Was the thought of duty done and the love of his fellow-men.
- Richard Watson Gilder
Collection: Veterans Day
Image of James Mattis
You’ve been told that you’re broken, that you’re damaged goods and should be labeled victims. I don’t buy it. The truth, instead, is that you are the only folks with the skills, determination, and values to ensure American dominance in this chaotic world.
- James Mattis
Collection: Veterans Day
Image of Arthur Koestler
The most persistent sound which reverberates through man’s history is the beating of war drums.
- Arthur Koestler
Collection: Veterans Day
Image of 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.
- Jim Davis
Collection: Veterans Day
Image of Sidney Sheldon
My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place – police, firefighters and members of our armed forces.
- Sidney Sheldon
Collection: Veterans Day