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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.

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Nearly the entire Reichstag, including the Social Democrats, agrees that we must not allow ourselves to be deprived of the weapon of the U-boat war.

Gustav Stresemann

We're now quickly losing our Korea heroes as well--veterans of "the forgotten war." Let's not forget them or fail to honor and cherish them.

Robert P. George

We are ready [for war], and the sooner it comes, the better for us.

Helmuth von Moltke the Younger

Germany has no blame for the Second World War.

Gerard Menuhin

At a moment when we need a leader with courage and integrity, we get a pompous clown.

Caroline Lucas

We have been living through an epoch in which wars, tyrannies and privations seem to have reached their peak...

Vera Stanley Alder

I see this war ending with Russia going back to Russia.

Kaja Kallas

When a doctor is deworming a cat — for the doctor, it’s a special operation, for the worms, it’s a war, and for the cat, it’s a cleansing.

Vladimir Solovyov

I was the one who pulled the trigger of this war.

Igor Girkin

In those moments of war, there were no distinctions. They were all lives that needed to be saved. We as the Church had to help them.

Fiorenzo Angelini

A book at 17. You had the courage to expose yourself a lot.

Mariasole Pollio

"Every so often there's a generation likes us, Ian. Our only raison d'être to be blown to pieces in a war we imagine we believe in ideologically."

Paul Scott A Male Child (1956)

The Many Times Connie Has Left Us Inspired With Her Pearls of Wisdom, Choose serenity, courage, and wisdom in whatever you want to achieve.

Connie Ferguson

Winnie was a woman of her times, there was a war and she too was a soldier.

Redi Tlhabi

The Championship is like war. Every game is tough and horrible. The Premier League is easier and people play easy.

Mikel John Obi

War robs you mentally and physically, it drains you. Things don't thrill you anymore. It's a struggle everyday to find something interesting to do.

Audie Murphy

Bullets have no eyes. In the field, bullets would not know if a child was abducted or volunteered for the rebel army. War would destroy all these children.

Angelina Atyam

Courage does not mean the absence of fear, it means you have to feel the fear and go for it anyway,”

Carey Lohrenz

The war we are losing is with time.

Lev Grossman The Magician's Land (2014)

I hope that many women will see this and take courage to enter into politics.

Akon Etim Eyakenyi

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