No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
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.
War is a man’s game—the killing machine has a gender, and it is male.
"Why must there be war?" "Oh Lavinia, what a woman's question that is! Because men are men."
It is the great challenge of our time: How to achieve justice, with struggle, but without war.
In every premenstrual woman struggling to govern her temper, sky-cult wars again with earth-cult.
When you lose, Sis, the last war’s never over and done with.
Nothing like a wound infection to take the romance out of war.
We are watching the Germans closely; we are not forgetting what they did to us during the war.
Trade has ever been the extinguisher of war, the eradicator of prejudice, the diffuser of knowledge.
Out of that bungled, unwise war
An alp of unforgiveness grew.
Your trouble is, the Old Faith reinforces every wish to kill that war has roused in you.