Who is to say that robbing a people of its language is less violent than war?
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:
I sit beside my lonely fire
And pray for wisdom yet:
For calmness to remember
Or courage to forget.
War stories aren't really anything more than stories about people anyway.
The man who shouts wins battles; the quiet man wins the war.
In global warming and pollution we eclipse, in lies and wars to nuclear apocalypse
And Ronan was everything that was left: molten eyes and a smile made for war.
Ever since our enemies have refused to listen to and obey our Führer, the whole war has gone badly.