veterans-day-quotes

"Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause."

"Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it is my responsibility to make it better."

Studs Terkel

"Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory."

"Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others."

"Courage is a kind of salvation."

"He conquers who endures."

Persius

"Fortune favors the brave."

Terence

"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."

G. K. Chesterton

"The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity."

Seneca

"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another."

Joseph Addison

"Home is the sailor, home from sea, and the hunter home from the hill."

Robert Louis Stevenson

"Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go."

Bernard Malamud

"There never was a good war or a bad peace."

"Only the dead have seen the end of war."

George Santayana

"I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine."

William Tecumseh Sherman

"A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon."

"Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them."

"Some goals are so worthy, it's glorious even to fail."

Captain Manoj Kumar Pandey

"No, sir, I will not abandon my tank. My gun is still working."

Second Lieutenant Arun Khetarpal

"What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns."

Wilfred Owen

"Have you forgotten yet?... Look up, and swear by the green of the spring that you'll never forget."

Siegfried Sassoon

"We cherish, too, the Poppy red that grows on fields where valor led."

Moina Michael

"Bearing the bandages, water and sponge, straight and swift to my wounded I go."

"Here dead we lie because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung."

A. E. Housman

"For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' 'Chuck him out, the brute!' But it's 'Saviour of 'is country' when the guns begin to shoot."

Rudyard Kipling