Courage, mon ami, le diable est mort!
Take courage, my friend, the devil is dead!
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:
You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about.
Boots—boots—boots—boots—movin' up and down again!
There's no discharge in the war!
Germany has declared war on Russia. Swimming in the afternoon.
NATO should have disbanded after the Cold War, just as the Warsaw Pact did.
I am she who gave you so much war and completed my day before evening.
Take courage, lover!
Could you endure such pain
At any hand but hers?
These men too were criminals. Their crime was vast. They had lost a war. And they had lived.