The coming of the wireless era will make war impossible, because it will make war ridiculous.
Memorial Day Quotes
This page is assembled from three others: War, Death and Gratitude. There is no memorial collection underneath it. One poem is filed against the day itself, Joyce Kilmer’s, in Trees and Other Poems (1914), and it opens with a bugle that, he says, is not singing of war today.
The rest is whatever the three source pages rate highest, so it leans toward poetry and toward writers who saw war up close. Several famous lines about death and sacrifice carry flags here, so read the note on a quote’s own page before you attach a name to it.
The war of the poor against the rich is the only way from oppression to deliverance.
In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
Do we progress, in an upwards fashion, or merely ride the cycles of war and peace, boom and bust?
The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.
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.
Maybe after the war we’ll be civilized again. That’s the way it has always happened in the past.