Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

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

I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask: "Mother, what was war?"

Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.

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

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

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

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men

Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.

Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.

I think America as a whole has come more to terms with separating war from the warrior.

Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not.

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

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

We owe our World War II veterans - and all our veterans - a debt we can never fully repay.

The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.

America's veterans embody the ideals upon which America was founded more than 229 years ago.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

War should never be thought of as something autonomous, but always as an instrument of policy.

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it until the test comes.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

A brave captain is as a root, out of which, as branches, the courage of his soldiers doth spring.

No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.

Our veterans accepted the responsibility to defend America and uphold our values when duty called.

When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.

You'll be scared! Sure you'll be scared. Who wouldn't fear having their head completely blown off.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem.

How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth?

The thing is this: You got to have fun while you're fightin' for freedom, 'cause you don't always win.

When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

The willingness of America's veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude.

It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

My father had many, many veterans over to the house, and the older I got the more I appreciated their sacrifice.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

Better than honor and glory, and History's iron pen, Was the thought of duty done and the love of his fellow-men.

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

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

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.

You'd have to go a long way to find someone who was more proud and grateful for what our veterans have done for all of us.

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