Men are ignorant that the purpose of the sword is to save every man from slavery.
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.
Wars have never made peace or preserved it or fostered its ideals.
War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.
It is said that God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.
I never cease urging peace, which, however unfair, is better than the justest war in the world.
Like a led victim, to my death I'll go,
And, dying, bless the hand that gave the blow.
His religion at best is an anxious wish, — like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps.
That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.
He first deceased; she for a little tried
To live without him, liked it not, and died.
How sleep the brave who sink to rest
By all their country's wishes blest!
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
To have a thankless child!
Blessed are the peacemakers; for they shall be called the children of God.