Quotes on Great Veterans Day

Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.

How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

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.

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

One day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.

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

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

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

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

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.

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.

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

Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.

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

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

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help."

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children’s children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.