Stephen was moved by the thought of his fellow countrymen fighting this foreign war.
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:
Saladin was a man of keen intelligence. He was vigorous in war and unusually generous.
His immediate impression had been that here was a ward heeler in a Charvet tie.
There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.
In a slothfull peace both courages will effeminate, and manners corrupt.
You dare not make war upon cotton! No power on earth dares make war upon it. Cotton is king.
No kingdom has ever had as many civil wars as the kingdom of Christ.
If the President had his way, we’d have a nuclear war every week.
Shall we put an end to the human race; or shall mankind renounce war?
When I was a kid, the disaster we worried about most was a nuclear war.
You wait for the war to happen like vultures. If you want to help, prevent the war.