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:
He allowed himself to feel that his stubbornness was courage. Maybe it was.
She had the best kind of courage, or maybe the worst kind, the kind that gets you into trouble.
The problem after a war is the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay.
We certainly don't need to view them [Chinese] as enemies. We can't afford another cold war.
War is a lottery in which nations ought to risk nothing but small amounts.
In war, groping tactics, half-way measures, lose everything.
We talk a great deal about patriotism. What do we mean by patriotism in the context of our times?