This crusade, this war on terrorism is going to take a while.
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:
Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a "war against terrorism."
Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
Massacres of civilians in Bucha and other localities are real war crimes.
I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War.
Our people are going to war to perpetuate slavery, but the war will be its death knell.
The war in Ukraine is the culmination of a 30-year project of the American neoconservative movement.
Everyone always did miss everyone else in this war, whenever it was humanly possible to do so.
Courage is not the absence of fear but the awareness that something else is more important.
During the war he was an airman and slaughtered civilians from on high.