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 the statesman's game, the priest's delight,
The lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
Cowards fear to die; but courage stout,
Rather than live in snuff, will be put out.
I know a little of navigation:
War, trade, and piracy, allow,
As three in one, no separation.
Let us emphasize that there is not a soldier to be compared to Camilo in this war of liberation.
The war [World War 1.] is founded on a glaring mistake, men have been confused with machines.
Their peace and their war
Are like wind and storm.War grows from their peace.
War is very simple, but in War the simplest things become very difficult.
There is no war so important that to win it, we must destroy our minds.
All my life I have been a pacifist. All my life I have hated war and loved peace.