Peace is only better than war if peace is not hell too. War being hell makes sense.
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:
No war, or battle's sound
Was heard the world around.
The idle spear and shield were high up hung.
I am the Peace President, and only I will stop World War III!
Watching Avatar, I felt sort of the same as when I saw Star Wars in 1977.
We did not start the so-called war in Ukraine. On the contrary - we are trying to finish it.
The artist begins with a vision — a creative operation requiring effort. Creativity takes courage.
Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.