It is now as in the days of yore when the sword ruled all things.
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.
Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.
The proper qualities of a general are judgment and deliberation.
Let war be so carried on that no other object may seem to be sought but the acquisition of peace.
Therefore, whoever wishes for peace, let him prepare for war.
You can't say civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.
All that tread,
The globe are but a handful to the tribes
That slumber in its bosom.
When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.