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:
All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is a war.
I told them that in Qur'an and in Arabic language jihad does not mean war.
You do not need chariots and horsemen, harps and war-horns, to make history interesting.
I can assure you that no kingdom has ever had as many civil wars as the kingdom of Christ.
I think you're a damn war criminal and you should be tried as one.
War arises from both sides feeling they have a hope of victory.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.
It is in this sense that Franklin says, "war is robbery, commerce is generally cheating."
You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.
It is not by recognizing the want of courage in someone else that you acquire courage yourself..