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:
"It's us, not the gods, who created war. It's us, we human beings, who can kill it."
A man of keen intelligence, vigorous in war, and unusually generous.
The coming of the wireless era will make war impossible, because it will make war ridiculous.
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.
The war of the poor against the rich is the only way from oppression to deliverance.
In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
Do we progress, in an upwards fashion, or merely ride the cycles of war and peace, boom and bust?
The magnificence of the courage and fortitude of the Korean people defies description.
The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.