Veteran Quotes - Page 15

• Experts always tend to obscure the obvious.

  D. V. Ager

  Experts, Obscure, Obvious

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• I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them,
  And the white skeletons of young men-I saw them;
  I saw the debris and debris of all the dead soldiers of the war;
  But I saw they were not as was thought;
  They themselves were fully at rest-they suffer'd not;
  The living remain'd and suffer'd-the mother suffer'd,
  And the wife and the child, and the musing comrade suffer'd,
  And the armies that remain'd suffer'd.

  Walt Whitman

  Mother, Veterans Day, Children

  Walt Whitman (1870). “Passage to India”, p.39, Haskell House Pub Limited

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• In the battlefield men grapple each other and die;
  The horses of the vanquished utter lamentable cries to heaven,
  While ravens and kites peck at human entrails,
  Carry them up in their flight, and hang them on the branches of dead trees.

  Li Bai

  Veterans Day, Horse, Men

  Li Po, “Nefarious War”

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• My gentleman gives the law where he is; he will outpray saints in chapel, outgeneral veterans in the field, and outshine all courtesy in the hall. He is good company for pirates, and good with academicians; so that it is useless to fortify yourself against him; he has the private entrance to all minds, and I could as easily exclude myself, as him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Law, Giving, Pirate

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.43, Xist Publishing

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• When I'm president of the United States, we're going to have a VA that cares more about our veterans than about the bureaucrats who work at the VA.

  Marco Rubio

  Our Veterans, President, United States

  GOP Debate, www.washingtonpost.com. August 06, 2015.

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• During the first campaign, one of my jobs as my husband's spouse was to travel around the country and really listen to women. There were voices that were new to me: the voices of military spouses, many of them women, and veterans.... I was overwhelmed by their challenges, and the notion that we as a country don't even know that these women exist, because we live in a country where one percent of the population protects the rights and freedoms of the other 99 percent of us. I thought that if I had the opportunity to serve as First Lady, I was going to use this platform to be their voice.

  Michelle Obama

  Country, Jobs, Husband

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The Bush administration has been doing everything it can to hide the huge number of returning veterans who are severely wounded - 17,000 so far including roughly 20 percent with serious brain and head injuries. Even the estimate of $500 billion ignores the lifetime disability and healthcare costs that taxpayers will have to spend for years to come.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Years, Numbers, Brain

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I'm sick of the cover-ups, I'm sick of the lies, and so are the bloody veterans, that come out daily of the department's mouth.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Lying, Sick, Cover Ups

  "Tony Abbott signals extending military campaign to Syria - politics live" by Katharine Murphy, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2015.

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• Whether you're a veteran like me or a high school athlete, the most important thing you can do is keep your body healthy.

  Jason Terry

  Athlete, School, Healthy

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I talk about jobs, I talk about our veterans being mistreated.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Our Veterans, Mistreated

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I think as a veteran player, in general, you should feel that sense of responsibility to try to lead these guys to becoming good pros. You want the league to be in good hands, and you want these guys to become great NFL players and then pass it along to the next generation. You can only lead by example, and that's pretty much what I'm trying to do.

  Champ Bailey

  Responsibility, Player, Thinking

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• How different the new order would be if we could consult the veteran instead of the politician.

  Henry Miller

  Order, Politics, Different

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.123, New Directions Publishing

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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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• I've been making movies for a long time. The Japanese way of making movies has become second nature to me. To get away from that, I really try to surround myself with younger staff and approach making movies not like a veteran of the industry but always as a beginner and a rookie.

  Takashi Miike

  Long, Trying, Beginners

  Source: collider.com

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• We're starting to see, as the economy improves, that the unemployment rate among veterans and military spouses - we're seeing some improvement in those numbers. And that's a good thing.

  Michelle Obama

  Military, Numbers, Unemployment

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I mean, that's the least we should do for these men and women [veterans and military spouses], is to make sure they come back to jobs that pay, to career opportunities, that these spouses are able to add a second income to their households, because these families do not have a lot of resources.

  Michelle Obama

  Jobs, Military, Mean

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• These are things that we hear from military families everywhere we go. But it - on PTSD, the thing that I want to make sure people understand is that the vast majority of veterans and military families aren't dealing with any kind of mental health. But there are - these are what are called the invisible wounds of this war. And many times they don't present.

  Michelle Obama

  Military, War, People

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• We got a commitment that 3 million nurses are going to be trained to better identify these signs [of PTSD], because, you know, when these troops come home and they become veterans and they go back into the civilian community, they're not always going through the VA system for medical care. They're going to show up at community hospitals and clinics.

  Michelle Obama

  Commitment, Home, Nurse

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• We have a lot of young players and some veteran players who make you feel good and give you a lot of tips. They always want to make sure you're ready to play.

  Carlos Gonzalez

  Player, Giving, Feel Good

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• I'm hoping to learn something new every day. It sounds corny, but I really do come in here every day, listening and talking with the veteran guys and seeing what I can absorb.

  Justin Verlander

  Talking, Guy, Listening

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• I take a backseat to no one in my affection, respect and devotion to veterans. And I will not accept from Senator Obama, who did not feel it was his responsibility to serve our country in uniform, any lectures on my regard for those who did.

  John McCain

  Country, Responsibility, Uniforms

  "Obama, McCain Tussle Over Veterans Issues". Statement to the Press, voices.washingtonpost.com. May 22, 2008.

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• I'm a veteran, and I come from a family of veterans and people who served in that war. And the stories that I heard were a hell of a lot different than the movies that I was seeing, so I wanted to make a movie about the people that were really there.

  David Ayer

  War, People, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• Benedict Arnold was a war hero, wounded in battle--before he turned against his country. Hitler was likewise a decorated and wounded veteran of the First World War. Being a war hero is not a lifetime...exempt[ion]...from responsibility for what you do thereafter.

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, War, Hero

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• This is what class warfare looks like: The Business Roundtable - representing Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase and others - has called on Congress to raise the eligibility age of Social Security and Medicare to 70, cut Social Security and veterans' COLAs, raise taxes on working families and cut taxes for the largest corporations in America.

  Bernie Sanders

  Cutting, Class, America

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• The first time I ever intersected with the quote unquote industry or Hollywood or being given a paid job as a director all came because of the reputation I got coming out of Sundance as a veteran Sundance filmmaker.

  Lynn Shelton

  Jobs, Directors, Hollywood

  Source: collider.com

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