Veterans Day Quotes

Veteran’s Day marks the annual celebration in the United States honoring military veterans.  It’s also known as Remembrance Day in Canada or Armistice Day in some other areas in the world.  Veteran’s Day commemorates the end of World War 1 and honoring soldiers to this day.

It’s important to educate our children about Veterans Day and to understand the sacrifices these brave soldiers made and continue to make, to fight for the country.

Here is a compilation of some Veterans Day Quotes:

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

I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.  ~ Gary Hart

It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you. ~ Dick Cheney

In war, there are no unwounded soldiers. ~ Jose Narosky

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.  ~ Cynthia Ozick

She mourned with a bleak blank determination, marching straight ahead with a shell-shocked vet’s hollow-eyed thousand-yard stare while doing the next thing and the next. ~ James A. Hetley

The most persistent sound which reverberates through men’s history is the beating of war drums. ~ Arthur Koestler

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.  ~ Jimmy Carter

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them. ~ Clara Barton

Older men declare war. But it’s the youth who must fight and die  ~ Herbert Hoover

As we express our gratutude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.  ~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy