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:
My grandfather for example only died twice, once during the war and once in the 1980s.
I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.
"To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first."
[T]hey possess most gold and silver, by which war, like everything else, flourishes.
War is legitimized state-sponsored terrorism in a grand scale.
Collateral damage during hostage rescue missions is more acceptable than that in an all-out war.