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 remains one human episode amid all the atrocities which have stained the memory of the war.
Sapere aude! Have the courage to use your own understanding.
A brave mind is always impregnable. True courage is the result of reasoning.
Now, Aeneas, is the hour for courage, now for a dauntless heart!
War therefore is an act of violence intended to compel our opponent to fulfil our will.
You must be frank with the world; frankness is the child of honesty and courage.
Of ladies, knights, of passions and of wars,
of courtliness, and of valiant deeds I sing.
I think what'll happen in the not-too-distant future is that we'll have humane wars.
But silenced now are laws in war: we driven from our homes; yet is our exile willing.