veterans-day-quotes

"While everybody is taking life, I'm going to be saving it."

Desmond Doss

"The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst."

Harry Emerson Fosdick

"I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them."

Clara Barton

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."

Elie Wiesel

"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer."

"Self-trust is the essence of heroism."

"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime."

"They carried the soldier's greatest fear, which was the fear of blushing."

Tim O'Brien

"Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys."

"To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage."

Confucius

"Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head."

Euripides

"It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press."

Charles M. Province

"The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it."

George C. Marshall

"If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed."

Admiral William H. McRaven

"To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die."

Thomas Campbell

"They went with songs to the battle, they were young, straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow."

Laurence Binyon

"To you from failing hands we throw the torch; be yours to hold it high."

John McCrae

"Breathes there the man with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said, this is my own, my native land!"

Sir Walter Scott

"Gathered like pearls in their alien graves, silent they sleep by the Persian waves... they lie with pale brows and brave, broken hands."

Sarojini Naidu

"Saare jahan se achha Hindustan hamara. (Better than all the world is our India.)"

Muhammad Iqbal

"Pluck me, O gardener, and cast me on the path where many brave ones walk to offer their heads for the motherland."

Makhanlal Chaturvedi

"The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract."

"An army marches on its stomach."

"Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently."

"Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it."

Pericles