The fight for equality requires both courage and persistence.”
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:
Every early morning, every late night, every decision made with both courage and care,”
It is here that your war, it is here that you have to win it.
We must be prepared to pay the price for peace, or assuredly we shall pay the price of war.
Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.
I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill.
Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy.
Courage, garrulousness and the mob are on our side. What more do we want?