The Cold War was all about who could build the biggest refrigerator, wasn’t it?
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:
As if he needed me to say "Slam Dunk" to go to war with Iraq.
Courage is the highest quality for a soldier, but technology is a fine substitute.
The Russians have learned much in this hard war in which the Finns fought with heroism.
The wars ended when there were no longer two societies left to fight against each other.
"When old men decided to barter young men for pride and profit, the transaction was called war."
I have declared war on Mr Murdoch and I think we are going to win.
War can set us back centuries, but sometimes it is necessary to correct the course of mankind.