Changing from the defensive to the offensive, is one of the most delicate operations in war.
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:
There is only one favorable moment in war; talent consists in knowing how to seize it.
In war one must lean on an obstacle in order to overcome it.
In war, character and opinion make more than half of the reality.
The work we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
Look at the war in Iraq and the mess that we're in. I would never have handled it that way.
"We remind our churches to maintain the emphasis on the war against indecent dressing"
Psychiatrists — the dominant lay priesthood since the First World War...