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  • But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for, Is their monument to-day, and for aye.

    Thomas Dunn English (1885). “The Boy's Book of Battle-lyrics: A Collection of Verses Illustrating Some Notable Events in the History of the United States of America, from the Colonial Period to the Outbreak of the Sectional War”
  • A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

    First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1953
  • 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.
  • There are some who've forgotten why we have a military. It's not to promote war, it's to be prepared for peace.

    Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.207, Simon and Schuster
  • 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.

  • Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

    George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.3610, e-artnow
  • America's veterans embody the ideals upon which America was founded more than 229 years ago.

  • The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

  • The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

  • America's veterans deserve the very best health care because they've earned it.

  • Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.

    "A Toolbox for Humanity: More Than 9000 Years of Thought". Book by Lloyd Albert Johnson, 2004.
  • We make war that we may live in peace.

    Nicomachean Ethics bk. 10, 1177b See Vegetius 1
  • It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.

    "Painkiller Deathstreak" by Nicholson Baker, www.newyorker.com. August 9, 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.
  • I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask: "Mother, what was war?"

  • As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

    Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.836, Best Books on
  • 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
  • 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.

    Sun Tzu “Sun Tzu: The Art of War (Illustrated)”, Charles River Editors
  • There never was a good war or a bad revolution.

    Edward Abbey (1998). “The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel”, p.140, Macmillan
  • 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, Sir Richard Winn Livingstone (1960). “The History of the Peloponnesian War”, Oxford University Press, USA
  • Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

    Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.86, Fordham Univ Press
  • Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction.

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  • This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

  • Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers.

  • I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.

    Douglas MacArthur's speech to the Texas Legislature in Austin (June 13, 1951) as quoted in "General MacArthur Speeches and Reports 1908-1964" edited by Edward T. Imparato (p. 175), June 14, 2000.
  • Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.

    Labor Day Address at Liberty State Park, delivered 1 September 1980, Jersey City, New Jersey
  • 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."

    Philip Morin Freneau (1861). “Poems on Various Subjects: But Chiefly Illustrative of the Events and Actors in the American War of Independence”, p.293
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