Veterans Day Quotes - Page 6

• 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

  Memorial Day, Military, Moving

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• It is not only the living who are killed in war.

  Isaac Asimov

  Peace, War, Bombing

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• Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves.

  Carol Lynn Pearson

  Sports, Travel, Hero

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• In valor there is hope.

  Tacitus

  Memorial Day, Courage, Valor

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• 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

  Patriotic, Fighting, Soldier

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Love in the Afternoon”, p.39, Macmillan

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• Fold him in his country's stars.
  Roll the drum and fire the volley!
  What to him are all our wars,
  What but death bemocking folly?

  George Henry Boker

  Uplifting, Country, Memorial Day

  George Henry Boker (1864). “Poems of the War”, p.169

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• Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Fighting, Soldier, Salt

  U.S. News & World Report, Vol. 110, Issues 5, p. 32, February 11, 1991.

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• I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them,
  And the white skeletons of young men-I saw them;
  I saw the debris and debris of all the dead soldiers of the war;
  But I saw they were not as was thought;
  They themselves were fully at rest-they suffer'd not;
  The living remain'd and suffer'd-the mother suffer'd,
  And the wife and the child, and the musing comrade suffer'd,
  And the armies that remain'd suffer'd.

  Walt Whitman

  Mother, Children, War

  Walt Whitman (1870). “Passage to India”, p.39, Haskell House Pub Limited

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• You'll be scared! Sure you'll be scared. Who wouldn't fear having their head completely blown off.

  Giulio Douhet

  Veteran, Scared

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• This year's Veterans Day celebration is especially significant as our country remains committed to fighting the War on Terror and as brave men and women are heroically defending our homeland.

  John Doolittle

  Country, War, Fighting

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• To those seniors, and especially elderly veterans like myself, I want to tell you this: You are not alone, and you having nothing to be ashamed of. If elder abuse happened to me, it can happen to anyone. I want you to know that you deserve better.

  Mickey Rooney

  Senior, Elderly, Abuse

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

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Thinking, Feet, Firefighter

  Don Quixote (1605)

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• 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

  Smart, Thoughtful, Fire

  "Learning to Take the Heat / Author Caroline Paul faced blazes and prejudice as an S.F. firefighter" by Sylvia Rubin, www.sfgate.com. June 1, 1998.

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• 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

  Opportunity, Soldier, Battle

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1955”, p.323, Best Books on

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• 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

  Mean, Men, Rising Up

  "Freedom and War: Discourses on Topics Suggested by the Times".

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• The 2.4 million bright, brave, incredibly fit and remarkably talented young Americans who have served in our armed forces since we were attacked on 9-11-01 are all volunteers. As General Petraeus put it during a conversation we had in Afghanistan, 'They all came or stayed, knowing they were going to war.' For more than a decade, these patriots and their loved ones have made extraordinary sacrifices for this country. They embody the classical definition of heroes: those who put themselves at risk for the benefit of others.

  Oliver North

  Country, War, Hero

  "The Heroes of 2011" by Oliver North, www.foxnews.com. November 11, 2011.

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• I think America as a whole has come more to terms with separating war from the warrior.

  Jeffrey Dunn

  War, Thinking, America

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• As a 22-year Army Veteran who served in Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom, and as a Civilian Advisor to the Afghan Army in Operation Enduring Freedom, I understand both the gravity of giving the order, and the challenge of carrying it out.

  Allen West

  Thank You, Memorial Day, Army

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• 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

  Men, Honor, United States

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• 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

  Memorial Day, Children, War

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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.

  Barbara Bush

  Work, Home, Warrior

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• In the battlefield men grapple each other and die;
  The horses of the vanquished utter lamentable cries to heaven,
  While ravens and kites peck at human entrails,
  Carry them up in their flight, and hang them on the branches of dead trees.

  Li Bai

  Horse, Men, Ravens

  Li Po, “Nefarious War”

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• How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth?

  Curt Weldon

  Truth, Ethos, Agency

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