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:
There is no human quality more attractive than the courage of the weak.
War may achieve a redistribution of resources, but labor, not war, creates wealth.
"That's what courage is. If she weren't scared, she wouldn't need courage in the first place."
There are more strains of courage than merely facing a sword.
I always wanted to have the courage to do totally crazy, impossible, and also wrong things.
Indeed, it is not too much to say that the normal relation of States is war.
Everything connected with war and warlike exploits is interesting to a boy.