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Top 16 Veterans Day Quotes of All Time

A short, finished list rather than an endless feed: 16 of the best veterans day quotes ever written, picked out of the full veterans day archive on QuoteForever. You will find Henry Waxman, Philip Freneau, Richard Watson Gilder and Franklin D. Roosevelt among them.

Read the list top to bottom, or use it as a starting point - every author name links to everything else they said, and every quote has its own page you can share or turn into an image.

1

Henry Waxman / U.S. Representative

The sanctity of our battlefields, monuments, and veterans institutions is of utmost importance to preserve military history and pay respect to those who fought.

2

Philip Freneau / Poet

But fame is theirs - and future days On pillar'd brass shall tell their praise; Shall tell - when cold neglect is dead - "These for their country fought and bled."

3

Richard Watson Gilder / Poet

Better than honor and glory, and History's iron pen, Was the thought of duty done and the love of his fellow-men.

4

Franklin D. Roosevelt / 32nd U.S. President

We, too, born to freedom, and believing in freedom, are willing to fight to maintain freedom. We, and all others who believe as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

5

Carl Von Clausewitz / Military Historian

War should never be thought of as something autonomous, but always as an instrument of policy.

6

Francois De La Rochefoucauld / Author

Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.

7

H. L. Mencken / Journalist

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

8

Oliver Cromwell / Political Leader

A few honest men are better than numbers.

9

R. Lee Ermey / Actor

America's trying to do the best for its veterans.

10

Rand Beers / Former United States Deputy Secretary Of Homeland Security

The precondition to freedom is security.

11

Sebastian Junger / Author

The only thing that makes battle psychologically tolerable is the brotherhood among soldiers. You need each other to get by.

12

Bill Frist / Former United States Senator

The valor and courage of our young women and men in the armed services are a shining example to all of the world, and we owe them and their families our deepest respect.

13

Douglas Macarthur / Military Officer

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

14

John Warner

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.

15

John Linder / Former United States Representative

Our soldiers have nobly fought to protect freedom since our country's birth, and have fought to protect those that could not protect themselves, even in foreign lands when called upon.

16

Solomon Ortiz / U.S. Representative

As a former veteran, I understand the needs of veterans, and have been clear - we will work together, stand together with the Administration, but we will also question their policies when they shortchange veterans and military retirees.

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