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:
Ah well, these little mysteries, morbid curiosities, war is full of them. - Dr Ahmet Talzani
It was clear to me that the invasion changed the whole possibilities of the outcome of the war.
There should be no civil war among the Chinese people and no friction across the Taiwan Strait.
We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.
I am not ready to die because it requires infinitely higher courage to live.
And for them [Ukrainians] this choice looks so: either a common state with Russia or eternal war.