veterans-day-quotes

"Freedom lies in being bold."

Robert Frost

"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared."

Eddie Rickenbacker

"A brave man acknowledges the strength of others."

Veronica Roth

"Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit."

Baltasar Gracián

"Being a hero doesn't mean you're invincible. It just means that you're brave enough to stand up and do what's needed."

Rick Riordan

"The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else."

Umberto Eco

"A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer."

Novalis

"The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by."

Felix Adler

"In the long run the sword is always beaten by the spirit."

"Peace is the only battle worth waging."

"There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities that even man will be appalled, and so abandon war forever."

Thomas Edison

"Either war is obsolete or men are."

R. Buckminster Fuller

"War is the unfolding of miscalculations."

Barbara Tuchman

"You can't say civilization don't advance – in every war they kill you in a new way."

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward many are strong at the broken places."

"There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn't."

John Green

"They also serve who only stand and wait."

John Milton

"I will die, but I will not let Naushera fall."

Brigadier Mohammad Usman

"If you can, please come and see where the Indian Army fought for your tomorrow."

Captain Vijayant Thapar

"Don't come up, I will handle them."

Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan

"From the high peaks of the Himalaya, awakened and pure, self-radiant and shining, Mother India calls for freedom."

Jaishankar Prasad

"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main."

John Donne

"Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come."

Victor Hugo

"Have you news of my boy Jack? Not this tide. When d'you think that he'll come back? Not with this wind blowing, and this tide."

Rudyard Kipling

"Were half the power that fills the world with terror, were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, given to redeem the human mind from error, there were no need of arsenals or forts."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow