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:
Courage, combined with stupidity, does not make successful soldiers.
The war now proposed is for the purpose of establishing Jewish influence throughout the world.
"Peace is not simply the absence of war; it is the presence of justice, equality, and opportunity."
You don’t have to suffer war injuries to understand how tough life can be.
The first step toward winning the war on truth is to accept that we are in one.
Knowledge brings pain and anxiety, exhilaration and an undreamt-of courage.
War shortens the distance from person to person, from birth to death.
War, they say, is just business conducted through other means.
“It is no small thing, Major, to be lost in a blizzard in the night skies over war-torn Europe.”
War is the game played by old men with the lives of the young.