Veteran Appreciation Quotes - Page 2

• Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look upon them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.

  Sun Tzu

  Thank You, Veterans Day, Art

  Sun Tzu “Sun Tzu: The Art of War (Illustrated)”, Charles River Editors

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• Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Courage, Veterans Day, Strong

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• There never was a good war or a bad revolution.

  Edward Abbey

  Veterans Day, Peace, War

  Edward Abbey (1998). “The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel”, p.140, Macmillan

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• History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

  Ronald Reagan

  Veterans Day, Money, Peace

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1984). “Ronald Reagan”

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• America's veterans embody the ideals upon which America was founded more than 229 years ago.

  Steve Buyer

  Veterans Day, Years, Us Veterans

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• But fame is theirs - and future days
  On pillar'd brass shall tell their praise;
  Shall tell - when cold neglect is dead -
  "These for their country fought and bled."

  Philip Freneau

  Uplifting, Country, Veterans Day

  Philip Morin Freneau (1861). “Poems on Various Subjects: But Chiefly Illustrative of the Events and Actors in the American War of Independence”, p.293

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• A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Success, Witty, Memorial Day

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1953

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• When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?

  George Canning

  Thanksgiving, Thank You, Thankful

  George Canning (1826). “Poetical Works ...: Comprising the Whole of the Satires, Odes, Songs, and Other Poems”, p.26

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• We make war that we may live in peace.

  Aristotle

  Strength, Veterans Day, Peace

  Nicomachean Ethics bk. 10, 1177b See Vegetius 1

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• It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.

  Dick Cheney

  Veterans Day, Freedom, Taken

  "Painkiller Deathstreak" by Nicholson Baker, www.newyorker.com. August 9, 2010.

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• Have the courage to act instead of react.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Courage, Veterans Day, Fear

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• Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Veterans Day, Peace, War

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• The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

  Desmond Tutu

  Memorial Day, Peace, Freedom

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• The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Inspirational, Life, Truth

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• The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

  Arthur Koestler

  Veterans Day, Military, War

  Janus (1978) prologue

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• There is only one tactical principle which is not subject to change. It is to use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wound, death, and destruction on the enemy in the minimum amount of time.

  George S. Patton

  Military, Mean, Army

  "Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder". Book by Michael Savage. Chapter 1: "More Patton, Less Patent Leather", p. 4, 2005.

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• It is God's job to forgive Osama Bin Laden. It is our job to arrange a face to face meeting.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Jobs, Military, Forgiving

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• But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for, Is their monument to-day, and for aye.

  Thomas Dunn English

  Country, Veterans Day, Memorial Day

  Thomas Dunn English (1885). “The Boy's Book of Battle-lyrics: A Collection of Verses Illustrating Some Notable Events in the History of the United States of America, from the Colonial Period to the Outbreak of the Sectional War”

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• I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask: "Mother, what was war?"

  Eve Merriam

  Mother, Dream, Veterans Day

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• Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Veterans Day, Military

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• Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers.

  Aristotle

  Veterans Day, Military, American Veterans

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• We can't equate spending on veterans with spending on defense. Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget, but in the size of our hearts, in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And that's not just measured in words or gestures.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Thank You, Gratitude, Veterans Day

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• The most certain way of ensuring victory is to march briskly and in good order against the enemy, always endeavouring to gain ground.

  Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor

  Veterans Day, War, Order

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• Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Veterans Day, Peace, War

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.3610, e-artnow

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• America's veterans deserve the very best health care because they've earned it.

  Jim Ramstad

  Veterans Day, Us Veterans, Our Veterans

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