Veteran Quotes - Page 2

• Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club.

  Thomas Huxley

  Cutting, Science, Common Sense

  "On the Educational Value of the Natural History Sciences" (1854)

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• If you listen closely to the voices of our veterans, you understand that yes, they all returned from war changed, but what never changed is this: They never forgot your generosity. They never forgot the power of opportunity. They never forgot the American dream.

  Michael Mullen

  Dream, War, Opportunity

  Address to Soldiers' Angels Gala, Washington, D.C., November 06, 2008.

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• Giving a veteran a flag is not a substitute for giving our vets the quality health care they were promised

  Dick Durbin

  Giving, Quality, Vets

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• 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.

  Steve Buyer

  Veterans Day, Believe, Men

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• 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

  Veterans Day, Men, Us Veterans

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• The moon gives you light, and the bugles and the drums give you music, and my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans, my heart gives you love.

  Walt Whitman

  Heart, Moon, Light

  Walt Whitman (1995). “Civil War Poetry and Prose”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• America's veterans embody the ideals upon which America was founded more than 229 years ago.

  Steve Buyer

  Veterans Day, Years, Us Veterans

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• The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  War, Slaughterhouse Five, Slaughterhouse 5

  Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). “Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five”, p.156, Infobase Publishing

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• I am convinced that America's great sea of goodwill can be, in fact, a rising tide, a tide that could lift every veteran and every family of our wounded and fallen.

  Michael Mullen

  America, Sea, Facts

  Address to Soldiers' Angels Gala, Washington, D.C., November 06, 2008.

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• We can't equate spending on veterans with spending on defense. Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget, but in the size of our hearts, in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And that's not just measured in words or gestures.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Thank You, Gratitude, Veterans Day

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• Disabled veterans are not a bargaining chip.

  Jim Bridenstine

  Chips, Bargaining, Disabled

  Twitter post from Jan 15, 2014

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• 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

  Memorial Day, Veterans Day, Men

  Richard Watson Gilder (1900). “Five Books of Song”

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• It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.

  Zell Miller

  Veterans Day, Military, Army

  2004 Republican National Convention Address, delivered 1 September 2004, Madison Square Garden, New York

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• Veterans report that service dogs help break their isolation. People will often avert their eyes when they see a wounded veteran. But when the veteran has a dog, the same people will come up and say, 'Hi' to pet the dog and then strike up a conversation.

  Al Franken

  Dog, Eye, People

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• My wartime experiences developing a code that utilized the Navajo language taught how important our Navajo culture is to our country. For me that is the central lesson: that diverse cultures can make a country richer and stronger.

  Chester Nez

  Country, Important, Stronger

  "Decoding history: A World War II Navajo Code Talker in his own words". CNN Interview, inamerica.blogs.cnn.com. December 4, 2011.

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• Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Veterans Day, Memorial Day, Courage

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

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• It's important for me to highlight my views for veterans who've fought for America and at the same time don't have anything to show for it. It's kind of dear to me.

  2 Chainz

  America, Views, Important

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Our veterans deserve the very best, and that means ensuring that America's veterans receive high-quality services and cares when they come back home.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Home, Mean, Our Veterans

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• I'm going to fight my way out, I'm going to take all my equipment and all my wounded and as many dead as I can. If we can't get out this way, this Division will never fight as a unit again.

  Oliver P. Smith

  Military, Marine, Army

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• 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.

  Nick Lampson

  Veterans Day, Believe, Past

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• It is impossible not to recognise the Long March as one of the great triumphs of men against odds and men against nature. While the Red Army was unquestionably in forced retreat, its toughened veterans reached their planned objective with moral and political will as strong as ever... Their conviction had helped turn what might have been a terrible defeat into an arrival in triumph.

  Edgar Snow

  Strong, Army, Men

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• Alice thought, No. It wasn't the War and the disgruntled veterans; it wasn't the droves and droves of colored people flocking to paychecks and streets full of themselves. It was the music. The dirty, get-on-down music the women sang and the men played and both danced to, close and shamelesss or apart and wild...It made you do unwise disorderly things. Just hearing it was like violating the law.

  Toni Morrison

  War, Dirty, Men

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• How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

  Maya Angelou

  Strong Women, Veterans Day, Courage

  "Celebrating Our She-roes" by Jill S. Tietjen, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2014.

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• A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Success, Witty, Memorial Day

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1953

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• War is organized murder, and nothing else.

  Harry Patch

  War, Libertarian, Murder

  Harry Patch, Richard van Emden (2008). “The Last Fighting Tommy: The Life of Harry Patch, Last Veteran of the Trenches, 1898-2009”, p.201, A&C Black

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