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:
Christian holy war was a dynamic concept which was adjusted for use in different conditions.
Before the war [World War I] the anti-Semitic movement was of no political importance in Germany.
Australians have a right to know, the basis upon which Australia went to war in Iraq.
The Civil War, like most wars, was a bad time for religious skeptics.
Africa must declare an end to the era of self-inflicted wars and conflicts.
No matter what it takes, we will win this war against terror.
“He was a leader who exemplified courage, a sense of purpose, vision.”
Woe to those who began this war, if they were not in bitter earnest.