I don't believe in violence and war is not the solution to the problems that face this country.
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:
It seemed to us the sinister reversion to the war system would be at the cost of democracy.
Literary epochs come and go but this wave seems to have frozen in the cold war.
Indeed the judiciary is a critical component in the war against corruption.
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts.
The future is not as loud as war, but it is relentless with a terrible fury all its own.
Rightists do not represent humanity,they cause division and incitement to civil war.
The war's red flames,
Charging Tarleton, proud Cornwallis, navies moving on the James.
After having left the tribe as a child through the violence of war.
A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobles by her scars.
The winning of the war is the only question before us. Nothing else matters.
Then a very great war man, call'd Billy the Norman,
Cried "D--n it, I never lik'd my land."