I know a little of navigation:
War, trade, and piracy, allow,
As three in one, no separation.
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.
Let us emphasize that there is not a soldier to be compared to Camilo in this war of liberation.
The war [World War 1.] is founded on a glaring mistake, men have been confused with machines.
Their peace and their war
Are like wind and storm.War grows from their peace.
War is very simple, but in War the simplest things become very difficult.
There is no war so important that to win it, we must destroy our minds.
All my life I have been a pacifist. All my life I have hated war and loved peace.
The United States has never entered a serious war, and has never been victorious.
Let the gull'd fool the toil of war pursue,
Where bleed the many to enrich the few.
Russia’s aim was to wipe Ukraine off the map. Putin’s war of conquest is failing.