Veterans Day Thank You Quotes - Page 3

• Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

  Winston Churchill

  Graduation, Being Strong, Perseverance

  Speech at Harrow School, Harrow, England, 29 Oct. 1941

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• Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

  Winston Churchill

  Being Strong, Veterans Day, Stay Strong

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.395, Da Capo Press

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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

  Veterans Day, Military, War

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• Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that

  James Neil Hollingworth

  Courage, Fear, Cancer

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• So shines a good deed... in a weary world.

  Gene Wilder

  Thank You, Veterans Day, Helping Others

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• Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They're working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler.

  Barbara Bush

  Veterans Day, Work, Home

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• Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Inspiring, Graduation

  Speech at Harrow School, Harrow, England, 29 Oct. 1941

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• Have the courage to act instead of react.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Courage, Veterans Day, Fear

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• From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent, and even here in our own hemisphere, our veterans have made the world a better place and America the great country we are today.

  John Hoeven

  Country, Veterans Day, War

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• We owe our World War II veterans - and all our veterans - a debt we can never fully repay.

  Doc Hastings

  Veterans Day, War, Our World

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• We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Freedom, Believe, Feet

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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

  Veterans Day, Determination, Skills

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• How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

  William Shakespeare

  Positive, Kindness, Naughty

  William Shakespeare (1936). “The Merchant of Venice”, p.46, CUP Archive

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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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• Because all of us believe and understand in the fabric of the common bond of why we call ourselves American is to care for the men and women who wear the uniform; and when they take off the uniform, we care for them when they are veterans.

  Steve Buyer

  Veterans Day, Believe, Men

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• It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.

  Zell Miller

  Veterans Day, Military, Army

  2004 Republican National Convention Address, delivered 1 September 2004, Madison Square Garden, New York

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• Today is Veterans Day. Thank you to all our men and women who have served the United States armed forces. In honor of Veterans Day we are marching out a few jokes that have already served.

  David Letterman

  Veterans Day, Men, Honor

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