Look back in history to read the names of our famous veterans. Their selfless sacrifice paved the way for our continued freedom. Our children can gain inspiration by reading about the sacrifices of our honorable veterans. Let us sow the seeds of equality and unity in the minds of our children and teach them to cherish their freedom. Let us also teach them the merits of voluntary service and sacrifice.

No sacrifice is too small for acknowledgment, and nobody is greater than a patriot. In these famous Veterans Day quotes, noble men and women of the world have saluted to the spirit of patriotism.

 

• Mark Twain
  Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
   
• Otto Von Bismark
  The most persistent sound which reverberates through men's history is the beating of war drums.
   
• Arthur Koestler
  But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for, Is their monument to-day, and for aye.
   
• General Douglas
  We are not retreating -- we are advancing in another direction.
   
• Napoleon Bonaparte
  Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.
   
• Ronald Reagan
  Some people live an entire lifetime and wonder if they have ever made a difference in the world, but the Marines don't have that problem.
   

• Benjamin Franklin
  Never has there been a good war or a bad peace.
   
• G. K. Chesterton
  Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
   
• Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry
  We have met the enemy and they are ours!
   
• Adapted from Henry G. Bohn
  A soldier is he whose blood makes the glory of the general.
   
• Ernest Miller Hemmingway
  Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
   
• Charles Edward Montague
  The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line.
   
• George Orwell
  People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
   
• Ferdinand Foch
  Hard pressed on my right. My center is yielding. Impossible to maneuver. Situation excellent. I am attacking.
   
• Allen West
  As a 22-year Army Veteran who served in Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom, and as a Civilian Advisor to the Afghan Army in Operation Enduring Freedom, I understand both the gravity of giving the order, and the challenge of carrying it out.
   
• Elmer Davis
  This will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
   
• Dick Cheney
  It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.
   
• Alexander the Great
  I do not fear an army of lions, if they are led by a lamb.
  I do fear an army of sheep, if they are led by a lion.
   
• Tao-te Ching
  He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened. He who conquers others has physical strength. He who conquers himself is strong.
   
• Rudyard Kipling
  When you're wounded out on Afghanistan's plains
  And the women come out to cut up what remains,
  Then just roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
  And die like a good British soldier!
   
• Giulio Douhet
  You'll be scared! Sure you'll be scared. Who wouldn't fear having their head completely blown off.
   
• Sir Philip Sydney
  A brave captain is as a root, out of which, as branches, the courage of his soldiers doth spring.
   
• Richard Gabriel, No More Heroes
  Nations customary measure the "cost of war" in dollars, lost production, or the number of soldiers killed or wounded. Rarely do military establishments attempt to measure the cost of war in terms of individual human suffering. Psychiatric breakdown remains one of the costly items of war.
   
• Karl von Clausewitz
  War should never be thought of as something autonomous, but always as an instrument of policy.
   
• Themistocles
  He who has command of the sea has command of everything.