veterans-day-quotes

"Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love."

W. B. Yeats

"Peace does not mean an absence of conflicts; differences will always be there. Peace means solving these differences through peaceful means."

"Peace in oneself, peace in the world."

Thich Nhat Hanh

"Courage in defeat and destruction, never wavering – this is the quality of an army of long standing."

Thiruvalluvar

"Fierceness in battle is called valour; to help a fallen foe is the sharp edge of that valour."

Thiruvalluvar

"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."

"Weapons are instruments of fear; they are not a wise man's tools. He uses them only when he has no choice."

"War is sweet to those who have not experienced it."

Erasmus

"All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal."

John Steinbeck

"True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice."

Jane Addams

"It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it."

"What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again."

Anne Frank

"It happened, therefore it can happen again."

Primo Levi

"Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping."

Fred Rogers

"Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone."

G. B. Stern

"The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek."

Joseph Campbell

"A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives."

Jackie Robinson

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it."

"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances."

Viktor Frankl

"As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison."

"The best revenge is not to be like your enemy."

"Sometimes even to live is an act of courage."

Seneca

"Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them."

"Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants."

Omar Bradley

"I can no other answer make but thanks, and thanks, and ever thanks."