I feel that if any songs are gonna come out of World War III, we'd better start writing them now.
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.
When war is declared, Truth is the first casualty. books.google
We, the Poles, do not understand war as a symbol but as a real fight.
It was a war that was inevitable because it was a war that everybody wanted.
This may not be a just peace, but it is more just than the continuation of war.
If the general government should persist in the measures now threatened, there must be war.
War means fighting. The business of the soldier is to fight.
The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable.
Work is the call. Work at war speed. Good-night—and go to it.
Never again while the risk of war remained must we allow ourselves to neglect our land weapon.