In making war with nature, there was risk of loss in winning.
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:
We shall have a harder Christmas than we have known since the war.
You seek up a big monster for him to fight your wars for you.
It is time we admitted that we are not at war with "terrorism". We are at war with Islam.
I consider myself a casualty, one of the many casualties of the war on terror.
In war, proving the other guy was wrong often meant proving he had no business breathing.
I get an obsession that everybody is out for what they can get during the war and it makes me sick.
A lot of hard-faced men who look as if they had done very well out of the war.