Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword.
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 is presumptively wrong to do violence to innocent persons.
Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
Let our object be, our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country.
No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.