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:
I feel that if any songs are gonna come out of World War III, we'd better start writing them now.
When war is declared, Truth is the first casualty. books.google
We, the Poles, do not understand war as a symbol but as a real fight.
It was a war that was inevitable because it was a war that everybody wanted.
This may not be a just peace, but it is more just than the continuation of war.
If the general government should persist in the measures now threatened, there must be war.
War means fighting. The business of the soldier is to fight.
The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable.
Work is the call. Work at war speed. Good-night—and go to it.
Never again while the risk of war remained must we allow ourselves to neglect our land weapon.