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, as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
Be courageous. Be independent. Only remember where the true courage and independence come from.
Heard so oft
In worst extremes, and on the perilous edge
Of battle.
In the lost battle,
Borne down by the flying,
Where mingles war's rattle
With groans of the dying.
They went to war against a preamble, they fought seven years against a declaration.
No one loves his country for its size or eminence, but because it is his own.