War is not only a contest of strength, but also a test of morality and ethics.
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:
The ultimate Form of devaluation is military confrontation and global war.
In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.
You're such a nice boy, what do you want to go off and get killed in the War for?
A revolutionary war against a modern metropolitan state can only be fought in hell.
The masks have now been taken off, showing only the face of war.
If China revives again we could not wage war with her by ourselves.