veterans-day-quotes

"Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts."

Cicero

"If a man says he is not afraid of dying, he is either lying or is a Gurkha."

Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw

"Either I will come back after hoisting the Tricolour, or I will come back wrapped in it, but I will come back for sure."

Captain Vikram Batra

"Yeh dil maange more!"

Captain Vikram Batra

"If death strikes before I prove my blood, I promise, I will kill death."

Captain Manoj Kumar Pandey

"The enemy is only 50 yards from us. We are heavily outnumbered. We are under devastating fire. I shall not withdraw an inch but will fight to the last man and the last round."

Major Somnath Sharma

"The safety, honour and welfare of your country come first, always and every time. The honour, welfare and comfort of the men you command come next. Your own ease, comfort and safety come last, always and every time."

Field Marshal Philip Chetwode

"Give me blood, and I will give you freedom!"

Subhas Chandra Bose

"My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity."

Wilfred Owen

"Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds and wives."

Siegfried Sassoon

"If I should die, think only this of me: that there's some corner of a foreign field that is forever England."

Rupert Brooke

"Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die."

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"The real war will never get in the books."

"You must never so much as think whether you like it or not, whether it is bearable or not; you must never think of anything except the need, and how to meet it."

Clara Barton

"In great deeds, something abides. On great fields, something stays."

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

"In our youths our hearts were touched with fire."

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

"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

"Uncommon valor was a common virtue."

Chester W. Nimitz

"The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it."

Thucydides

"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others."

Pericles

"Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here, obedient to their laws, we lie."

Simonides

"A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles."

Christopher Reeve

"True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost."

Arthur Ashe

"Lest we forget."

Rudyard Kipling

"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it."

Edward Abbey