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:
Thus for ane Dow of Dunbar drew I this Dyte, Dowit with ane Dowglass, and boith war thei dowis.
Germ warfare against the United States would escalate to war against all humanity.
That ageing geriatric whizz-kid seems intent on starting World War III.
War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.
I need them for the manoeuvring of my left wing in the next war.
Isn’t it the path to glory: what I have done,
My virtue, courage, resolution and generosity?