Veterans Day is a nationwide holiday to celebrate military veterans who served in the U.S. military forces in the United States held annually on November 11. This day marks the day when the armistice was signed, which brought to an end the conflict between the Allies and Germany in 1918 during the First World War. Every Veterans Day veterans are thanked for their US contributions. Famous Veterans Day Quotes are read below.
Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.
Sun Tzu
Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
Alexander Hamilton
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 soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.Douglas MacArthur
Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
Douglas MacArthur
When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.
Napoleon Bonaparte
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
George S. Patton
In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
H. L. Mencken
The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
Charles Spurgeon
Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
George Eliot
Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The thing is this: You got to have fun while you’re fightin’ for freedom, ’cause you don’t always win.
Molly Ivins
It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
Norman Schwarzkopf
When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death – that is heroism.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They’re working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler.
Barbara Bush