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:
Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness toward anyone.
Europe needs an army to fight the resource wars of the twenty-first century.
You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.
The real war is within us. History is a symptom of our disease.
It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.
What if they gave a war and no one came? Then the war will come to you.
Hope awakens courage. He who can implant courage in the human soul is the best physician.