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Have the courage to act instead of react.
Sep 10, 2025
All of my high school male teachers were WWII and/or Korean War veterans. They taught my brothers and me the value of service to our country and reinforced what our dad had shown us about the meaning of service.
Twenty-five million veterans are living among us today. These men and women selflessly set aside their civilian lives to put on the uniform and serve us.
The veterans of our military services have put their lives on the line to protect the freedoms that we enjoy. They have dedicated their lives to their country and deserve to be recognized for their commitment.
Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
Our Lord has many weak children in his family, many dull pupils in his school, many raw soldiers in his army, many lame sheep in his flock. Yet he bears with them all, and casts none away. Happy is that Christian who has learned to do likewise with his brethren.
Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.
This year's Veterans Day celebration is especially significant as our country remains committed to fighting the War on Terror and as brave men and women are heroically defending our homeland.
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.
Thomas Jefferson once said. He said , "We should never judge a President by his age, only by his works." And ever since he told me that, I've stopped worrying. There are those who say I've stopped working.
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help."
Now the true soldiers of Christ must always be prepared to do battle for the truth, and must never, so far as lies with them, allow false convictions to creep in.
I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.
Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions.
America's Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world.
To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country's service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations.
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?
Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace.
We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
There never was a good war or a bad revolution.
How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place - police, firefighters and members of our armed forces.
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.
The willingness of America's veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude.
The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive the Veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their nation.
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children’s children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
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.
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
Never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense.
History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask: "Mother, what was war?"
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.
We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
Our veterans accepted the responsibility to defend America and uphold our values when duty called.
But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for, Is their monument to-day, and for aye.
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.
It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.