veterans-day-quotes

"Word over all, beautiful as the sky, beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage must in time be utterly lost."

"Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work – I am the grass; I cover all."

Carl Sandburg

"Ring out the thousand wars of old, ring in the thousand years of peace."

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"With malice toward none, with charity for all... let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds."

"Once let the black man get upon his person the brass letter U.S... there is no power on earth that can deny that he has earned the right to citizenship."

Frederick Douglass

"The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them."

Lois McMaster Bujold

"To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time."

Elie Wiesel

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others."

Cicero

"We rise by lifting others."

Robert G. Ingersoll

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

"Peace is its own reward."

"The brave alone can afford to be sincere."

"Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow."

"War is always a defeat for humanity."

Pope Francis

"More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny."

Kofi Annan

"Never, 'for the sake of peace and quiet,' deny your own experience or convictions."

Dag Hammarskjöld

"Peace, to have meaning for many who have known only suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health and education, as well as freedom and human dignity."

Ralph Bunche

"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again."

"So nigh is grandeur to our dust, so near is God to man, when Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' the youth replies, 'I can.'"

"Went the day well? We died and never knew. But, well or ill, Freedom, we died for you."

John Maxwell Edmonds

"For heroes have the whole earth for their tomb."

Pericles

"Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them."

George Eliot

"O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, the ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won."

"I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree."

Joyce Kilmer

"If ye break faith with us who die, we shall not sleep, though poppies grow in Flanders fields."

John McCrae