Wednesday November 11 is Veterans Day also known as Armstice Day, the day honoring all war victims.

Here are some Veterans Day quotes:

  • We make war that we may live in peace. - Aristotle
  • We know more about war than we do about peace, more about killing than we know about living. - Gen. Omar Bradley.
  • Nobody ever drowned in sweat. - US Marines
  • Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers. - Aristotle
  • More powerful than the will to win is the courage to begin. - Unknown
  • The military doesn't start wars. Politicians start wars. Gen. William Westmoreland.
  • Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Many become brave when brought to bay. - Norwegian proverb
  • Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. - George S. Patton
  • It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you. - Unknown
  • Either war is obsolete or men are. - Buckminster Fuller
  • There never was a good war or a bad peace. - Benjamin Franklin
  • Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a solder dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war. - Otto Von Bismark.
  • Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself. - Jean Dubuffet
  • This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave. - Elmer Davis
  • Freedom is never free. - Author Unknown
  • What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purist joys and happiness God has granted us in this world. - Gen. Robert E. Lee
  • Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul. - Michel de Montaigne
  • The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war. - Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
  • In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot. - Mark Twain
  • Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous. - George Bernard Shaw
  • It is not only the living who are killed in war. - Isaac Asimov
  • Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it. - Irving Berlin
  • History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. - Ronald Reagan
  • Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice. - Lyn Yutang
  • Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men. - George Patton
  • Have the courage to act instead of react. - Earlene Larson Jenks
Veterans Day