Quotes on War Veteran

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

One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you'd see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

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.

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

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

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

**** the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!

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.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America.