Veterans Day Quotes - Page 5

• Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

  John Wayne

  Courage, Fear, Military

  John Wayne, Carol Lea Mueller (2007). “The Quotable John Wayne: The Grit and Wisdom of an American Icon”, p.34, Taylor Trade Publications

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• Have the courage to act instead of react.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Courage, Fear, Our Veterans

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• War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of.

  Sebastian Junger

  Military, War, Numbers

  "War". Book by Sebastian Junger, www.hoover.org. 2010.

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• In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.

  Jose Narosky

  Memorial Day, Peace, War

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• When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.

  Karl Marlantes

  War, Starting, Treaties

  "A war hero returns home, 40 years later" By John Blake, www.cnn.com. April 9, 2012.

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  It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

  George S. Patton

  Sympathy, Death, Wisdom

  Speech at the Copley Plaza Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts, on June 07, 1945. "Patton, ordeal and triumph". Book by Ladislas Farago, 1963.

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• If you're not gonna pull the trigger, don't point the gun.

  James Baker

  Military, Gun, Triggers

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• While we can't begin to repay the debt we owe our veterans for their brave service, we can certainly take steps to ease the physical, psychological and financial hardships they may be experiencing.

  Kirsten Gillibrand

  Financial Hardship, Our Veterans, Brave

  "Being a Voice for Our Veterans" by Kirsten Gillibrand, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 8, 2010.

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• It is Veterans Day, when we honor everyone who served in all of the campaigns. We honor them with dignity and respect, and of course mattress sales and tire discounts.

  Craig Ferguson

  Honor, Campaigns, Dignity

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• Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

  William Shakespeare

  Success, Death, Motivation

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 2, l. 30

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• Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Sacred, Breakfast Of Champions, Armistice Day

  Kurt Vonnegut (1973). “Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!”, Dell

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• One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are.

  Walter Isaacson

  Inspirational, Hero, Motivational Sales

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Walter Isaacson Great Innovators e-book boxed set: Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, Einstein”, p.414, Simon and Schuster

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• Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Military, War, Eye

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• It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.

  Daniel Webster

  4th Of July, Blessing, Forever

  Discourse in Commemoration of Adams and Jefferson, Faneuil Hall, Boston, Mass., 2 Aug. 1826

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• It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes to disability pay. We owe our disabled veterans more than speeches, parades and monuments.

  Dick Durbin

  Illinois, Speech, Pay

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• War should never be thought of as something autonomous, but always as an instrument of policy.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Should, Instruments

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.88, Princeton University Press

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• To honor our national promise to our veterans, we must continue to improve services for our men and women in uniform today and provide long overdue benefits for the veterans and military retirees who have already served.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Military, Men, Our Veterans

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• You've been told that you're broken, that you're damaged goods and should be labeled victims. I don't buy it. The truth, instead, is that you are the only folks with the skills, determination, and values to ensure American dominance in this chaotic world.

  James Mattis

  Determination, Skills, Broken

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• I hope to live long enough to see my surviving comrades march side by side with the Union veterans along Pennsylvania Avenue, and then I will die happy.

  James Longstreet

  Our Veterans, Long, Civil War

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• I was there. I saw your sons and your husbands, your brothers and your sweethearts. I saw how they worked, played, fought, and lived. I saw some of them die. I saw more courage, more good humor in the face of discomfort, more love in an era of hate and more devotion to duty than could exist under tyranny.

  Bob Hope

  Brother, Husband, Hate

  Bob Hope (1944). “I never left home”

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• A brave captain is as a root, out of which, as branches, the courage of his soldiers doth spring.

  Philip Sidney

  Leadership, Spring, Roots

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.71

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• No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Believe, Soldier, Luck

  Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel”, p.77, Random House

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• Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Peace, Military, War

  Address to joint meeting of Congress, 19 Apr. 1951

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• On Veterans Day, we take time to honor those men and women who bravely serve and have served our nation in the U.S. Armed Forces.

  Todd Tiahrt

  Men, Honor, Force

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• America's veterans and troops serving abroad today fought hard to preserve our red, white and blue, from the Revolutionary War to today's Global War Against Terrorism, and Congress' action today is appropriate for one of our most sacred symbols.

  Bill Shuster

  War, Blue, White

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