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:
The Government can lose the war without you; they cannot win it without you.
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
Human war ... has been the most successful of all our cultural traditions.
There is a war against vice in Lancaster. I am going home to speak for vice.
The Chilean Armed Forces has declared war against the Chilean People…