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:
Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately summit to the tempest's shock.
Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
An army abroad is of little use unless there are prudent counsels at home.
War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.
Hence it happened that all the armed prophets conquered, all the unarmed perished.
It is now as in the days of yore when the sword ruled all things.
Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.