If we have a thousand bamboo spears, there's nothing to worry about a war with the Soviet Union.
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.
Without the military help of the black freedman, the war against the South could not have been won.
To carry on war, three things are necessary: money, money, and yet more money.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
The only way there could be war is if they start it; we're not going to start a war.
In the fall the war was always there but we did not go to it any more.
Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.
Everything in war is linked together, is mutually interdependent, mutually interpenetrating.
The war we have to wage today has only one goal, and that is to make the world safe for diversity.
Not all violence is equally reprehensible; not all wars are equally unjust.