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:
War meant a perpetual postponement of life, yet one did not cease to grow old.
Migrants are human ammunition used in a war bigger than us and them.
The courage to think and act differently does not come overnight; it takes time.
Draw inspiration and courage from you own dreams and passions and never slack on them.
Charles understood better than his father or his adversary that the chief material of war was money.
So long as there are two men left on earth there will be war.
Abroad, it takes courage to commit a crime; in Italy, it takes courage to remain honest.
It took a particular genius and a great deal of luck to make war pay, and Richard had neither.
“I've long dreamed of making clothes, but I just didn't have the courage to do it and learn.