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:
To carry on war, three things are necessary: money, money, and yet more money.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
The only way there could be war is if they start it; we're not going to start a war.
In the fall the war was always there but we did not go to it any more.
Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.
Everything in war is linked together, is mutually interdependent, mutually interpenetrating.
The war we have to wage today has only one goal, and that is to make the world safe for diversity.
Not all violence is equally reprehensible; not all wars are equally unjust.