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:
Compulsory military training is conducive to waging wars rather than to the maintenance of peace.
One of the most revealing things about a country is the way it takes the threat of war.
That is precisely what agreements are for: so that hatred won't become war.
As long as there are nation-states, there will be war, tension and national enmity.
It takes enormous trust and courage to allow yourself to remember.
You may be twice my size, but I have three times your courage