The Writer's Almanac from American Public Media: A couple of "war quotes on Veteran's Day.
"Kurt Vonnegut said, 'Anti-war books are as likely to stop war as anti-glacier books are to stop glaciers.'"
The philosopher Bertrand Russell said, "All this madness, all this rage, all this flaming death of our civilization and our hopes, has been brought about because a set of official gentlemen, living luxurious lives, mostly stupid, and all without imagination or heart, have chosen that it should occur rather than that any one of them should suffer some infinitesimal rebuff to his country's pride."