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:
Gratitude is more of a compliment to yourself than someone else.
I’ll say this for the Queen. She was brave—or possibly stupid. It’s easy to mistake the two.
What's brave, what's noble,
Let's do it after the high Roman fashion,
And make death proud to take us.
"Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?"
"That is the only time a man can be brave."
The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.
Stop shallow water still running, it will rage; tread on a worm and it will turn.
Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
When there's a war around take the day off, that's my motto.
You are offensive...because this page has a sword which I chose to say is not a sword.