List his discourse of war, and you shall hear
A fearful battle render'd you in music.
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:
There is an undeclared Cold War underway now in the IT sector.
Our patriotism comes straight from the Romans. … It is a pagan virtue.
In our view, all-out war promises the least success in achieving the objectives we have outlined.
War's very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.
Victories win wars. Give people victory and they won't care who won it.
My friends, there is no Palestinian-Israeli conflict. There is only the global war on terrorism.
Right now, the choice isn't between war and peace. It is between war and endless war.