The state of crisis is the real war; the equilibrium is nothing but its reflex.
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:
All too often men with physical courage are disappointing in their moral imagination.
I think it was Osama bin Laden’s [idea to start a pre-emptive war in Iraq].
Lord, give me the heart of a child, and the awesome courage to live it out as an adult.
People are made of flesh and blood and a miracle fiber called courage.
England, France, and Russia have conspired...to wage a war of annihilation against us.
Why is it that so many men of small stature have more courage than men of size?
A man is not independent unless he has the courage to stand alone.
Al-Qaeda organisation in Iraq...has declared war against Shias in all of Iraq.