At no time has the world been without war. Not in seven or ten or twenty thousand years.
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:
War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.
Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
The whole reason of this War is because the Germans have no sense of humor.
Truth is not the first casualty of war alone: it is the first casualty of populism.
Patronage is the sword and cannon by which war may be made on the liberty of the human race.
A hallmark of sanity, Alex, is the courage to face even unpleasant points of view.
Only thing worse than fighting a war and winning is fighting a war and losing.