Why Veterans Day Quotes?
Veterans Day is the time to honor and recognize the brave individuals who have selflessly served in our nation's armed forces. It is a day to utter words of gratitude and appreciation for their service and sacrifice.
These brave individuals have willingly put themselves in harm's way to protect our freedom and way of life.
They have proudly and bravely borne the weight of our national promise to defend and safeguard our country. On this day and every day, we express our lasting gratitude to the members of our armed forces for their service and dedication.
What Parents Should Know
- As a parent, it is important to understand the significance of Veterans Day and to teach your children about the sacrifices made by the men and women who have served in the armed forces.
- It is also a chance to educate your children about the importance of patriotism and the value of service to others. By teaching your children about Veterans Day and its meaning, you can help instill a sense of pride and appreciation for the sacrifices of our inspiring leaders.
- This can also be a valuable lesson in understanding the cost of freedom and the importance of supporting those who have served.
What To Discuss With Kids
- Veterans Day originated as "Armistice Day" on November 11, 1919, marking the end of World War I. The day was officially renamed Veterans Day in 1954.
- The United States has more than 20 million veterans, representing over 7% of the country's population.
- The oldest living veteran in the United States is a 110-year-old woman named Florence Green, who served as a member of the Women's Royal Air Force during World War II.
- In addition to being a day to honor veterans, Veterans Day is also a federal holiday, meaning that many schools and businesses are closed on this day.
Happy Veterans Day Quotes
"We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude." - Cynthia Ozick
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Nelson Mandela
"To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country's service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations."
- Woodrow Wilson
"America's Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world." - John Doolittle
"On this Veterans Day, let us remember the service of our veterans, and let us renew our national promise to fulfill our sacred obligations to our veterans and their families who have sacrificed so much so that we can live free." - Dan Lipinski
"The veteran is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to 'The United States of America', for an amount of 'up to and including his life.'" - Anonymous
"Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul." - Michel de Montaigne
"In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it." - Barack Obama
"Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The veteran is the only true warrior, the only one who has really faced death." - Unknown*
"The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him." - G.K. Chesterton
"It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you." - Unknown*
"The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men." - Minot J. Savage
"Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death." - Omar Bradley
Inspirational Veterans Day Quotes
"Those that die for a good cause hover as a cloud of witnesses over the nation." - Henry Ward Beecher
"Duty, honor, country: Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be." - Douglas MacArthur
"Never was so much owed by so many to so few." - Winston Churchill
"Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Americans never quit." - Douglas MacArthur
"On thy grave the rain shall fall from the eyes of a mighty nation!" - Thomas William Parsons
"We can't equate spending on veterans with spending on defense. Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget, but in the size of our hearts, in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And that's not just measured in words or gestures." - Jennifer Granholm
"A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guarantee of peace." - Theodore Roosevelt
"Who kept the faith and fought the fight; The glory theirs, the duty ours." - Wallace Bruce
"Here men endured that a nation might live." - Herbert Hoover
"We come, not to mourn our dead soldiers, but to praise them." - Francis A. Walker
"The only easy day was yesterday." - US Navy SEALs
"A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself." - Joseph Campbell
"No man is a man until he has been a soldier." - Louis de Bernières
"Without heroes, we are all plain people, and don't know how far we can go." - Bernard Malamud
"America's veterans embody the ideals upon which America was founded more than 229 years ago." - Steve Buyer
"It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle." - Norman Schwarzkopf
"True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost." - Arthur Ashe
"The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it." - Thucydides
"Heroism doesn't always happen in a burst of glory. Sometimes small triumphs and large hearts change the course of history." - Mary Roach
"He loves his country best who strives to make it best." - Robert G. Ingersoll
"Perfect valor is to behave, without witnesses, as one would act were all the world watching." - François de la Rochefoucauld
"America without her soldiers would be like God without his angels." - Claudia Pemberton
Veterans Day Quotes Of Appreciation
"I think there is one higher office than President and I would call that patriot." - Gary Hart
"Our veterans accepted the responsibility to defend America and uphold our values when duty called." - Bill Shuster
"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." - Nathan Hale
"Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down."- Malcolm X
"Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts." - Marcus Tullius Cicero
"In war, there are no unwounded soldiers." - José Narosky
"Fortune favors the brave." - Terence
"This nation will remain the land of the free only as long as it is home of the brave." - Elmer Davis
"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph." - Thomas Paine
"My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place—police, firefighters, and members of our armed forces." - Sidney Sheldon
"Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened." - Billy Graham
"It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle." - Norman Schwarzkopf Jr.
"If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"The patriot's blood is the seed of freedom's tree." - Thomas Campbell
"Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend." - J.R.R. Tolkien
"America's veterans deserve the very best health care because they've earned it." - Jim Ramstad
"Better than honor and glory, and History's iron pen, was the thought of duty done and the love of his fellow men." - Richard Watson Gilder
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear." - Mark Twain
"There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism." - Alexander Hamilton
"This country has not seen and probably will never know the true level of sacrifice of our veterans." - Thomas M. Smith
"Fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor." - Michael N. Castle
"Spending time with America's soldiers is always inspiring." - John Boehner
"The young patriots now returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan and other deployments worldwide are joining the ranks of veterans to whom America owes an immense debt of gratitude." - Steve Buyer
"Their remembrance be as lasting as the land they honored." - Daniel Webster
"I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free. And I won't forget the men who died, who gave that right to me." - 'God Bless The U.S.A.', Lee Greenwood.
"We sleep peaceably in our beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on our behalf." - George Orwell
"There is nothing nobler than risking your life for your country." - Nick Lampson
"The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example." - Benjamin Disraeli
"Tragically, the effort to make America and the world safer and to defend freedom around the world is not without an enormous cost to this Nation in terms primarily of lost lives and those who bear the scars and the wounds of war, and their families who must bear these losses." - John Warner
"A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom." -Bob Dylan
"For the first time in a long time, I felt like I had a purpose being in the Navy. It wasn't about money and rank or prestige. It was about raising the flag. We do what we do because no one else can or will do it. We fight so others can sleep at night." - Timothy Ciciora
Famous Veterans Day Quotes By Presidents
"It's about how we treat our veterans every single day of the year. It's about making sure they have the care they need and the benefits that they've earned when they come home. It's about serving all of you as well as you've served the United States of America." - Barack Obama
"Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay. But we can honor their sacrifice, and we must." - Barack Obama
"The willingness of America's veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude." - Jeff Miller
"Some people live an entire lifetime and wonder if they have ever made a difference in the world, but the Marines don't have that problem." - Ronald Reagan
"The thing we all had in common wasn't muscle; it was the will to do whatever it takes." - Chris Kyle
"The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission." - John F. Kennedy
"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." - John F. Kennedy
"The veterans of our military services have put their lives on the line to protect the freedoms that we enjoy. They have dedicated their lives to their country and deserve to be recognized for their commitment." - Judd Gregg
"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 veterans of early wars were treated and appreciated by our nation." - George Washington
"The sanctity of our battlefields, monuments, and veterans institutions is of utmost importance to preserve military history and pay respect to those who fought." - Henry Waxman
"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, or 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." - Ronald Reagan
"The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here [at Gettysburg], have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here." - Abraham Lincoln
"I've lived the literal meaning of the 'land of the free' and 'home of the brave.' It's not corny for me. I feel it in my heart. I feel it in my chest." - Chris Kyle
"Our debt to the heroic men and valiant women in the service of our country can never be repaid. They have earned our undying gratitude." - Harry S. Truman
"Honoring the sacrifices many have made for our country in the name of freedom and democracy is the very foundation of Veterans Day." - Charles B. Rangel
"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." - Abraham Lincoln
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