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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

Veterans Day, Our Veterans, Long

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I want you to know, that you deserve the best. You're beautiful.

Lil Wayne

Beautiful, Uplifting, Veterans Day

Song: How To Love Spanish, Album: Tha Carter IV, 2011

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To those seniors, and especially elderly veterans like myself, I want to tell you this: You are not alone, and you having nothing to be ashamed of. If elder abuse happened to me, it can happen to anyone. I want you to know that you deserve better.

Mickey Rooney

Senior, Veterans Day, Elderly

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Caring for veterans shouldn’t be a partisan issue. It should an American one.

Jennifer Granholm

Caring, American Veterans, Issues

"Honor Sacrifice by Supporting Vets" by Jennifer M. Granholm, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 26, 2012.

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How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

Maya Angelou

Strong Women, Veterans Day, Courage

"Celebrating Our She-roes" by Jill S. Tietjen, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2014.

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Thank you for the sacrifices you and your families are making. Our Vietnam Veterans have taught us that no matter what are positions may be on policy, as Americans and patriots, we must support all of our soldiers with our thoughts and our prayers.

Zach Wamp

Thank You, Veterans Day, Memorial Day

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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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In a fire you have to be thoughtful, you have to have a certain kind of intuitive smarts that the veterans have. I'm not there yet, despite the Stanford degree.

Caroline Paul

Veterans Day, Smart, Thoughtful

"Learning to Take the Heat / Author Caroline Paul faced blazes and prejudice as an S.F. firefighter" by Sylvia Rubin, www.sfgate.com. June 1, 1998.

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The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive the Veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their nation.

George Washington

Veterans Day, Military, War

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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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The willingness of America's veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude.

Jeff Miller

Thanksgiving, Country, Gratitude

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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Joseph Campbell

Life, Inspiring, Veterans Day

Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.151, Anchor

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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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This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

Elmer Davis

Country, Courage, Veterans Day

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You'd have to go a long way to find someone who was more proud and grateful for what our veterans have done for all of us.

Jim Davis

Veterans Day, Grateful, Us Veterans

"'Garfield' creator apologizes for ill-timed Veterans Day comic strip", www.cnn.com. November 12, 2010.

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America's Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world.

John Doolittle

Country, Veterans Day, Us Veterans

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Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Life, Change, Wise

1952 In Time, 6 Oct.

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Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

Billy Graham

Motivational, Veterans Day, Memorial Day

"A Time for Moral Courage". Reader's Digest, July 1964.

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As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

John F. Kennedy

Inspirational, Thank You, Thanksgiving

Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.836, Best Books on

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On this Veterans Day, let us remember the service of our veterans, and let us renew our national promise to fulfill our sacred obligations to our veterans and their families who have sacrificed so much so that we can live free.

Dan Lipinski

Veterans Day, American Veterans, Us Veterans

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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

Michel de Montaigne

Veterans Day, Memorial Day, Courage

Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

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The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

George S. Patton

Country, Military, War

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place - police, firefighters and members of our armed forces.

Sidney Sheldon

Thank You, Veterans Day, Memorial Day

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In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

Mark Twain

Change, Thank You, Memorial Day

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.351, Courier Corporation

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The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

Patrick Henry

Inspirational, Veterans Day, Courage

Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death, delivered 23 March 1775 at Henrico Parrish Church St, Richmond Virginia, Second Virginia Convention

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