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Honoring the sacrifices many have made for our country in the name of freedom and democracy is the very foundation of Veterans Day.
Oct 1, 2025
All of my high school male teachers were WWII and/or Korean War veterans. They taught my brothers and me the value of service to our country and reinforced what our dad had shown us about the meaning of service.
America's veterans embody the ideals upon which America was founded more than 229 years ago.
In a fire you have to be thoughtful, you have to have a certain kind of intuitive smarts that the veterans have. I'm not there yet, despite the Stanford degree.
America's veterans deserve the very best health care because they've earned it.
I want you to know, that you deserve the best. You're beautiful.
We owe our World War II veterans - and all our veterans - a debt we can never fully repay.
Twenty-five million veterans are living among us today. These men and women selflessly set aside their civilian lives to put on the uniform and serve us.
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.
You've been told that you're broken, that you're damaged goods and should be labeled victims. I don't buy it. The truth, instead, is that you are the only folks with the skills, determination, and values to ensure American dominance in this chaotic world.
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.
This year's Veterans Day celebration is especially significant as our country remains committed to fighting the War on Terror and as brave men and women are heroically defending our homeland.
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes to disability pay. We owe our disabled veterans more than speeches, parades and monuments.
Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
I hope to live long enough to see my surviving comrades march side by side with the Union veterans along Pennsylvania Avenue, and then I will die happy.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
America's Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world.
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?
Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace.
We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
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.
Better than honor and glory, and History's iron pen, Was the thought of duty done and the love of his fellow-men.
Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
Caring for veterans shouldn’t be a partisan issue. It should an American one.
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.
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.
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.
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.
The willingness of America's veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude.
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.
It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
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.
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
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.
Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
To those seniors, and especially elderly veterans like myself, I want to tell you this: You are not alone, and you having nothing to be ashamed of. If elder abuse happened to me, it can happen to anyone. I want you to know that you deserve better.
But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for, Is their monument to-day, and for aye.
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.
It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.
This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.