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  • When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?

    George Canning (1826). “Poetical Works ...: Comprising the Whole of the Satires, Odes, Songs, and Other Poems”, p.26
  • Thank you for the sacrifices you and your families are making. Our Vietnam Veterans have taught us that no matter what are positions may be on policy, as Americans and patriots, we must support all of our soldiers with our thoughts and our prayers.

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

    "Celebrating Our She-roes" by Jill S. Tietjen, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2014.
  • 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.

  • Never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

    Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.395, Da Capo Press
  • Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

    Speech at Harrow School, Harrow, England, 29 Oct. 1941
  • You'd have to go a long way to find someone who was more proud and grateful for what our veterans have done for all of us.

    "'Garfield' creator apologizes for ill-timed Veterans Day comic strip", www.cnn.com. November 12, 2010.
  • The willingness of America's veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude.

  • Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

    "A Time for Moral Courage". Reader's Digest, July 1964.
  • Memorial Day isn't just about honoring veterans, its honoring those who lost their lives. Veterans had the fortune of coming home. For us, that's a reminder of when we come home we still have a responsibility to serve. It's a continuation of service that honors our country and those who fell defending it.

  • I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask: "Mother, what was war?"

  • 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.

    Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.351, Courier Corporation
  • This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of 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.

    Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.32, Wildside Press LLC
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

    Speech in House of Commons, 20 Aug. 1940
  • The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

    Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death, delivered 23 March 1775 at Henrico Parrish Church St, Richmond Virginia, Second Virginia Convention
  • While we can never truly repay the debt we owe our heroes, the least we should do for our brave veterans is to ensure that the government takes a proactive approach to delivering the services and benefits they have earned, so they can access the care they need and so richly deserve.

    "Honoring Our Heroes" by Kirsten Gillibrand, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 30, 2011.
  • We have met the enemy and they are ours.

    Message toWilliam Henry Harrison, 10 Sept. 1813. The source is Perry's dispatch from the U.S. brig Niagara to General Harrison, announcing that victory at the Battle of Lake Erie was secure. The dispatch was written in pencil on the back of an old letter; it is quoted in Robert B. McAfee, History of the LateWar in theWestern Country (1816). SeeWalt Kelly 2; Walt Kelly 3
  • It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.

    2004 Republican National Convention Address, delivered 1 September 2004, Madison Square Garden, New York
  • 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.

  • Honoring the sacrifices many have made for our country in the name of freedom and democracy is the very foundation of Veterans Day.

    "Fighting for Those Who Fight for Us" by Charles Rangel, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 8, 2013.
  • 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.

  • Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

    Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.395, Da Capo Press
  • The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

    Janus (1978) prologue
  • Our veterans accepted the responsibility to defend America and uphold our values when duty called.

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