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:
The day war broke out, my Missus said to me – she looked at me and she said, "What good are you?"
On the whole, more men had perhaps escaped into the war than from it.
Praise be to the Lord, my rock, who trains my fingers for battle and my hands for war.
Writing is also like love, if one can't have the courage to be a renunciant, they cannot write well.
And there is no time. There is a war on.
Always there is a war on.