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:
If they want war, we will fight, but I will make sure my people are protected from coronavirus.
Good leadership can mean the difference between war and peace, between development and stagnation.
That all men would be cowards if they dare,
Some men we know have courage to declare.
Anti-communism has been the U.S.'s powerful pro-war tool since 1945.
In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war.