The arms race is a race between nuclear weapons and ourselves.
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.
To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
An uneasy rhythm of life
is more life like than an easy death.
Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country.
The knight's bones are dust,
And his good sword rust;
His soul is with the saints, I trust.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear
To be we know not what, we know not where.
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.