Military Veteran Sayings

#1. The decision to go to war is the most important decision that I can make as a representative in Congress. As a veteran, I see any potential military action first through the eyes of the young men and women who volunteered to wear the uniform and would carry out such a mission.

Mark Kirk

#2. As a former veteran, I understand the needs of veterans, and have been clear - we will work together, stand together with the Administration, but we will also question their policies when they shortchange veterans and military retirees.

Solomon Ortiz

#3. I like performers who I know are for real. You can tell, man, there's an intensity about their stuff. You can tell right away they're real people, ya know?

Alan Vega

#4. There are no veterans, only survivors.

Rick H. Blase

#5. I don't usually stink, but I stunk

Peyton Manning

#6. Many well-intentioned Americans cannot even find a thread of conversation when discussing military service with a veteran other than asking about PTSD or sexual harassment in the case of female vets.

Jim Mattis

#7. On the battlefield, the military pledges to leave no soldier behind. As a nation, let it be our pledge that when they return home, we leave no veteran behind.

Dan Lipinski

#8. Born with a silver spoon in his mouth, he was going out with a rifle in his hand.

Kelly Moran

#9. Understanding begets empathy and compassion even for the meanest beggar - Oromis

Christopher Paolini

#10. There is a lightness about the feminine mind
a touch and go
music, the fine arts, that kind of thing
they should study those up to a certain point, women should; but in a light way, you know.

George Eliot

#11. To expect ... the same service from raw and undisciplined recruits, as from veteran soldiers, is to expect what never did and perhaps never will happen. Men, who are familiarized to danger, meet it without shrinking; whereas troops unused to service often apprehend danger where no danger is.

George Washington

#12. You can never have too much butter.

Nora Ephron

#13. Honor Lost

Ambulant sunshine pierced
the soot covered glass ~
the feeble man wandered by
in this ritual morning pass ...

Muse

#14. The novice in the military art flew from point to point, retarding his own preparations by the excess of his violent and somewhat distempered zeal; while the more practiced veteran made his arrangements with a deliberation that scorned every appearance of haste

James Fenimore Cooper

#15. I understand the needs of both the military and the veteran, and that has helped me tremendously as a congressman. I am proud to serve on the House Committee on Veterans Affairs.

Phil Roe

#16. My father was career military. He was a veteran, he was a doctor of political science, he taught at West Point and Air Command Staff and lectured at the War College.

Suzanne Collins

#17. As a Korean War Veteran, I know too well the troubling nature of war. This is why I will always support a diplomatic answer before military intervention.

Charles B. Rangel

#18. We are dealing with veterans, not procedures; with their problems, not ours.

Omar N. Bradley

#19. That spin became so violent, it was hard to know how to get out of it. I was able to get it under control and break the speed of sound ... I could feel myself break the speed of sound. I could feel the air building up and then I hit it.

Felix Baumgartner

#20. Life had altered in the wildest possible way, but it was imperative that they act as if nothing at all had happened.

Markus Zusak

#21. I'm actually a very moral guy.

Hugh Hefner

#22. As a soldier and combat veteran, I believe American military forces should only be used in the defense and furtherance of our nation's vital interests.

Joni Ernst