War was never so careful as to inflict suffering only where it was merited.
Veterans Day Quotes
Nothing on this page was written for Veterans Day. It is built from four pages, War, Courage, Patriotism and Gratitude, and the mix is not tidy. The war page contains plenty of writers who hated it, and the patriotism page contains Bertrand Russell remarking in 1962 that patriots talk of dying for their country and never of killing for it.
That makes the page more honest than a greeting card and less convenient. If you need a line of thanks, the gratitude entries are the safest place to look. If you want something that sounds like a speech, read the notes first, because some of the best-known patriotic lines here are flagged as misattributed.
Most quoted on veterans day:
Neither treason, nor semi-treason: the war. Nothing but the war.
I do not know whether war is an interlude in peace, or whether peace is an interlude in war.
Still may syllabes jar with time,
Still may reason war with rhyme,
Resting never!
Saddam is a war criminal and there are no two people who can argue over this.
We did not win the war with prayers, but with the blood of our soldiers.
I heard somebody say that the war ended today, but everybody knows it's going still.