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:
I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American!
The sword of Charlemagne the Just
Is Ferric Oxide, known as rust.
Helenus, with his heavy Thracian blade
Smiting the temples of Deipyrus,
Dash'd off his helmet.
With his own sword,
Which he did wave against my throat, I have ta’en
His head from him.
Boromir had a long sword, in fashion like Andúril but of less lineage.
Such subtle Covenants shall be made,
Till Peace it self is War in Masquerade.