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:
The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril.
True Patriotism, it seems to me, is based on tolerance and a large measure of humility.
I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.
One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq with the war on terror.
We are at war, and our security as a nation depends on winning that war.
Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?