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:
God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
People don't realize, you know, the Civil War, if you think about it, why?
Truth has anciently been called the first casualty of war. Money may, in fact, have priority.
Blessings on your young courage, boy; that's the way to the stars.
Maybe after the war we’ll be civilized again. That’s the way it has always happened in the past.
We get up and go to work, we get up and go to church, and we get up and go to war when necessary.