Harold Waring, like many other Englishmen, was a bad linguist.
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.
In the year of Christ 1183, the House of Plantagenet was at war against itself.
[I take] full military responsibility for the actions of the army in the war against terrorism.
War is a convenient fix for government problems if it happens somewhere else. To other people.
Even if my country remains at war with yours . . . remember ... I am not your enemy.
That was my plan. But there is an old saying about plans and war.
I would have done well to heed it.
South Koreans do not consider the integrity of their state important enough to go to war for.