Quotes on Happy Veterans Day

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.