Top 10 Best Quotations for Veterans Day

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.  

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

I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.  ~Gary Hart

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.  ~John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.  ~Michel de Montaigne

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

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

When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them.  ~Chinese Proverb

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

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