The whole art of war consists in getting at what is on the other side of the hill.
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.
It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing.
Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.
If they want peace, they and their relatives must stop the war.
We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.