For not by numbers of men, nor by measure of body, but by valor of soul is war to be decided.
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:
Empires come and go; so do ideologies and even religions, but war marches on through it all.
We cannot crusade against war without crusading implicitly against the State.
It's odd about war crimes. We seem to have tried people only if they've lost the war.
How many wars have been averted by patience and persisting good will!
Oh courage...oh yes! If only one had that...Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
Nothing is lost if one has the courage to proclaim that all is lost and we must begin anew.