Quotes on Veterans Day

Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers.

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

These are the times that try men's souls.

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.

I was there. I saw your sons and your husbands, your brothers and your sweethearts. I saw how they worked, played, fought, and lived. I saw some of them die. I saw more courage, more good humor in the face of discomfort, more love in an era of hate and more devotion to duty than could exist under tyranny.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.

If one, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him, It means just what Concord and Lexington meant, what Bunker Hill meant; it means the whole glorious Revolutionary War, which was, in short, the rising up of a valiant young people against an old tyranny, to establish the most momentous doctrine that the world had ever known - the right of men to their own selves and to their liberties.

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

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.

Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.

The guts carry the feet, not the feet the guts.

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

It is not only the living who are killed in war.

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.