45 Best Veterans Day Quotes to Thank Them for Their Sacrifice
Woodrow Wilson
D. Eugene Lee//Getty Images“Never before have men crossed the seas to a foreign land to fight for a cause which they did not pretend was peculiarly their own but knew was the cause of humanity and of mankind.”
2Abraham Lincoln
Lynne Gilbert//Getty Images“Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere who bravely bears his country’s cause.”
3Unknown
Rodica Cojocaru / 500px//Getty Images“For the veteran, thank you for bravely doing what you’re called to do so we can safely do what we’re free to do.”
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4George W. Bush
nicoletaionescu//Getty Images“Throughout the course of American history, courageous men and women have taken up arms to secure, defend, and maintain these core principles upon which our nation’s freedoms depend.”
5Unknown
Lynne Gilbert//Getty Images“Freedom is never free.”
6Unknown
SDI Productions//Getty Images“Real heroes don’t wear capes.”
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7Francis Scott Key, "The Star-Spangled Banner"
Marcia Straub//Getty Images“The land of the free and the home of the brave.”
8George Marshall
LightFieldStudios//Getty Images“The soldier's heart, the soldier's spirit, the soldier's soul, are everything.”
9Abraham Lincoln
Bo Zaunders//Getty Images“Any nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure.”
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10Louis de Bernières
Jena Ardell//Getty Images“No man is a man until he has been a soldier.”
11Arthur Ashe
Matt Champlin//Getty Images“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.”
12Unknown
Joanna McCarthy//Getty Images“To our men and women in uniform, past, present, and future, God bless you and thank you.”
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13Michel de Montaigne
Stuart Westmorland//Getty Images“Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.”
14Ronald Reagan
CatLane//Getty Images“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.”
15Unknown
Grant Faint//Getty Images“Saluting the brave hearts with pride and respect all the way.”
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16Herbert Hoover
Tetra Images//Getty Images“Here men endured that a nation might live.”
17Wallace Bruce
strickke//Getty Images“Who kept the faith and fought the fight; The glory theirs, the duty ours.”
18Claudia Pemberton
Getty Images“America without her soldiers would be like God without his angels.”
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19Minot J. Savage
Getty Images“The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men.”
20Thomas Campbell
diane555//Getty Images“The patriot’s blood is the seed of freedom’s tree.”
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