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:
So far no one had had enough courage and intelligence to reveal me to my dear Germans.
What we are seeing is not the war in Iraq. What we're seeing is slices of the war in Iraq.
Listen, the weather is just like Hillary's explanation for her war vote: we just don't know, do we?
The popular anti-war slogan from the 1960’s says it best: “Make love, not war.”
De facto, Britain has entered the war. I consider Britain is now a legitimate target for us.