The rightness of a thing isn't determined by the amount of courage it takes.
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:
It is barely conceivable that there are people who like war.
And have the courage to accept that you’re not perfect, nothing is, and no one is — and that’s OK.
England in all her wars has always gained one battle - the last!
To the memory of the Man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.
I’ll know how to die with courage; that is easier than living.
Watch every tendency towards militarism, for we know that preparation for war leads to war.
Wars might come and go, but the seven o'clock news lives forever.