How many wars have been averted by patience and persisting good will!
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.
This crusade, this war on terrorism is going to take a while.
Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a "war against terrorism."
Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
Massacres of civilians in Bucha and other localities are real war crimes.
I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War.
Our people are going to war to perpetuate slavery, but the war will be its death knell.
The war in Ukraine is the culmination of a 30-year project of the American neoconservative movement.