In Honor of Veteran's Day -- With Humble Gratitude....
"It is sweet and honorable to die for your country." --Horace
"We make war that we may live in peace." --Aristotle
"To be prepared for War is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace." --George Washington
"If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence." --Thomas Jefferson
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse." --John Stuart Mill
"The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth." --Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson
"A really great people, proud and high-spirited, would face all the disasters of war rather than purchase that base prosperity which is bought at the price of national honor." -- Theodore Roosevelt
"No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence." --Woodrow Wilson
"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." --Calvin Coolidge
"Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of the men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory." --George Patton
"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." --Sir Winston Churchill
"[L]et us solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly, on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our heritage of freedom, and let us re-consecrate ourselves to the task of promoting an enduring peace so that their efforts shall not have been in vain." --Dwight Eisenhower
"The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war." --Douglas MacArthur
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