Nobody is ever involved in an aggressive war; it's always a defensive war -- on both sides.
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:
Washington's furious assault on a poor peasant society had little to do with its wars in the region.
The war against war is going to be no holiday excursion or camping party.
For it giveth unto all lovers courage, that lusty month of May.
Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move.
All men are warriors. And life for everything in our universe is nothing but war.
It is His Majesty's heart's desire to see the swift termination of the war.
It is the thing protected, not the instrument of protection, that involves you in war.
But a war of any scope will give rise to others as formidable.
It is madness for any country to build its policy with an eye to nuclear war.