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:
War will pass when injustice passes. Never before, unless hope leaves the world.
When given half a chance, the combination of courage and an open mind can do wonders.
As always, war had lowered the level of American tolerance for any kind of dissent.
Courage is sweet on the lips of a man,
But is great and terrible in fatal trial.
That man Grant will fight us everyday and every hour until the end of the war.