Famous Quotes for All Veterans on Veterans Day 2011

• 1. We make war that we may live in peace. – Aristotle
• 2. Freedom is never free. – Author unknown
• 3. When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep? – George Canning
• 4. This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave. – Elmer Davis
• 5. Nobody ever drowned in sweat. – US Marines
• 6. In war, there are no unwounded soldiers. – Jose Narosky
• 7. Many become brave when brought to bay. – Norwegian proverb
• 8. Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. – George S. Patton
• 9. It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you. – Unknown
• 10. 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. – Mark Twain
• 11. There never was a good war or a bad peace. – Benjamin Franklin
• 12. Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous. – George Bernard Shaw
• 13. Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it. – Irving Berlin
• 14. 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. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
• 15. Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them. – Napoleon Bonaparte
• 16. History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. – Ronald Reagan
• 17. Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice. – Lyn Yutang
• 18. Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul. – Michel de Montaigne
• 19. Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men. – George Patton
• 20. Have the courage to act instead of react. – Earlene Larson Jenks