I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.
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.
Peace I do not find, and I have no wish to make war; and I fear and hope, and burn and am of ice.
The only people who love a war are those who have never fought in one.
I understand that the bombing ended the war, and I think that it couldn't be helped.
To win the War, to overcome the enemy upon the fields cannot alone ensure the Victory in Peace.
You have taken from me the one privilege of civil war – the power of granting life to the defeated.
For not by numbers of men, nor by measure of body, but by valor of soul is war to be decided.
Empires come and go; so do ideologies and even religions, but war marches on through it all.
We cannot crusade against war without crusading implicitly against the State.
It's odd about war crimes. We seem to have tried people only if they've lost the war.