Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. — George S. Patton
Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway. — John Wayne
Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. — Winston Churchill
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul. — Michel de Montaigne
Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes. — Benjamin Disraeli
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes! — Maya Angelou
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. — Joseph Campbell
Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men — George S. Patton
This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave. — Elmer Davis
The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. — Patrick Henry
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. — Thomas Jefferson
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened. — Billy Graham
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived. — George S. Patton
How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth? — Curt Weldon
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. — Ronald Reagan
But this Veterans Day, I believe we should do more than sing the praises of the bravery and patriotism that our veterans have embodied in the past. We should take this opportunity to re-evaluate how we are treating our veterans in the present. — Nick Lampson
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come. — William Shakespeare
America’s veterans and troops serving abroad today fought hard to preserve our red, white and blue, from the Revolutionary War to today’s Global War Against Terrorism, and Congress’ action today is appropriate for one of our most sacred symbols. — Bill Shuster
To those seniors, and especially elderly veterans like myself, I want to tell you this: You are not alone, and you having nothing to be ashamed of. If elder abuse happened to me, it can happen to anyone. I want you to know that you deserve better. — Mickey Rooney
We sit at our consoles and play “Gears of War”, but we don’t see images from war. We don’t turn on the news and see the evidence of war, the result of war. Maybe twice a year, Memorial Day, Veterans Day, we’ll go out, we’ll hang our flags, we’ll try to inculcate in our children some sense of national honor for the fallen. But really, we don’t see it. We just don’t see the pictures. There’s no drive-by on the freeway of death up close. So we don’t really see bravery. — Jamie Lee Curtis
