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:
Our security has been diminished rather than enhanced as a result of the conquests in this war.
I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I’m a messenger.
War is time that has marched through the mind, and is later presented in
This, if not an act of war, was certainly a warlike act by the Russian Federation…
War had a way of making carpe diem seem valid no matter what you wanted to seize...
Building a gazebo in the middle of the civil war, that'd be like doing stand-up comedy now.
Isn't it clear that the war makers are gambling with your lives, while pocketing huge profits?
Life is suffering. Life is war, and sacrifice. Life is victory.