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:
I want to look into myself, look at myself, delve into the assumptions I had before the war.
If there had been no war, perhaps I would have already discovered a lot by now.
When we are determined upon war, we should carry it on vigorously and without trifling.
In global regime of compassion and tolerance, no war is possible.
It will be a war of infrastructure, and in this sphere, we have many vulnerabilities.